Welcome back to school!  I pray that you were able to rest and celebrate all of God's blessings over Thanksgiving break! 

After our morning routines, the friends noticed something different on the carpet!  

"It's a Christmas tree!"

"We put our Christmas tree up!" 

"We have two trees at my house!" 

"Do you know the lights use electricity?"

We discussed where we should put our Christmas tree in our classroom. 

"Well it needs to be close to a plug." 

"What about that corner?"

"No - then it will be in our way!" 

"What about the other corner?" 

"Yeah!" 

The discussion was rich and the friends exhibited their social skills as they waited for their turn to speak, listened to their friends thoughts and ideas and continued our discourse on topic. 

As the friends continued to discuss, they thought it would be fun to make a Christmas town in our classroom! We made a list of supplies that we need to make the Christmas town.  

"We need a music room so we can use our instruments to sing Christmas songs!" 

We then had a discussion about why we celebrate Christmas.  We learned that although presents, trees, Santa, etc. are all fun parts of Christmas we really celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! 

Look how independent our friends are!  

Sadly, the snow didn't amount to anything that we could play with.  However, the friends enjoyed walking to our "secret garden" on the back of our property.  We are so blessed to have so much outdoor space! 

We were very careful on the bridge because it was slick! We

"Where is the water going?" 

"There's trash in there!  How did that get there?"

"We need to get it out and put it in a trash bin!" 

The friends and I then discussed the importance of taking care of the earth with which God has blessed us.  

"Look at the bird nest way up there!" 

"Is it a beehive?  It looks like a circle like a beehive?" 

"I found a nut!" 

"It's a squirrel nut."

"No I think it is an acorn!" 

After snack the friends went to work in the classroom! 

"I think it needs some ornaments." 

"I will put our Christmas books on the shelf so we can read them!" 

The friends worked with good junk to make ornaments for our tree! 

Some friends wrote Christmas cards.  They used our alphabet book as a reference for how to write letters and remember their sounds. 

Working in the blocks 

The friends asked if we could make a sign for Christmas town.  They worked together to write the words using our alphabet book as a reference and then decorate the sign! 

There was so much excitement in our classroom when the friends noticed the snow!