Gingerbread Bakes and Winter Fun

We had a few more days of winter study, and lots of peaceful singing. We were outside in the snow and cold, and enjoyed baking gingerbread together! The children contained their excitement as best they could-while we kept everyone busy! We finally finished our pinata story! It turns out that the balloon makes a very funny sound, and not a POP, when you pull it out of the pinata. Our sensory table was of ice bergs, and then shaving cream- all reminders exciting ways to experience the colors and senses of winter.

 Pinata Story!  I was reassuring the children that the balloon was going to not be scary - there were some plugged ears, but then a lot of laughter!

 Strong Swingers!

gathering treats!

a new sort of greeting time; passing a ball of yarn from side to side to make a snowflake

teamwork! These two worked together to create a beautiful picture, and then sat together again to create another picture!




Until Next Time,
Michele

Winter Wonders

We continue with our Winter themed art work, and it snowed this week so we had a real life example of snow! The children bundled up to get outside to check a new installation on our playground, two tunnels which were found to be a LOT of fun!

"pinata helpers"

Here is the "before" picture of getting ready to go outside. Every child moves at their own pace and there are a lot of backwards moves, but everyone persists, and slowly but surely we get to sit under the windows, ready except for a few revisits to get mittens .....

"after" picture-impressive!

 The new tunnel!

 And there's a smaller tunnel, like a "dog house", to go with the playhouse.

Until Next Time,

Michele