N is also in SANTA!

We can't help but love that guy, even though we know he's not the real reason for Christmas!

During circle time we had a discussion about the five senses and how we use them to experience the Christmas season. We see twinkling lights (and Santa); we hear jingle bells (and ho ho ho); we smell oranges (they actually did that with their eyes closed); we feel presents (and Santa's beard); and we taste cookies!

Everyone got a turn to help roll out the dough.


And then to cut out shapes. And don't worry, everyone also had a generous snitch of cookie dough before running off for play time!

We played a game with the letters S-A-N-T-A, scrambled up. I challenged the kids to put them in order of his name and Elizabeth was brave enough to give it a go. She first spelled Satna, which got some laughs, but not nearly as many as when she next spelled Satan. After she got it right, we replaced the S with many letters of the alphabet to see if we could find any rhyming words. I don't think we did, but Yanta and Zanta were popular possibilities.

We made the Rudolph craft and had lunch and then singing time. We sang Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and Jingle Bells. With Miss Liz' help, we had enough jingle bells to pass around so each child could shake them like mad at the appropriate moment in the song. We also used them in the reading of Polar Express.

At lunch there were spontaneous renditions of the ABC song and B-I-N-G-O and then green apple mouths.


Merry Preschool Christmas!