Merry pre-kinder Christmas!!

It’s officially Christmas break for El Camino! Right now teachers are finishing finals and putting in grades. I am in the classroom listening to Christmas music and taking down Christmas decorations. It’s like Christmas is over, but hasn’t even really started.

Today we decided to do a family Christmas party! It was so fun to interact with the parents and spend the last day together as a community. Here are some of the highlights:

Starting the day with a fun coloring page.

Decorating cookies that we made the day before. I think they were more into eating frosting!

Snack time outside!

We played some minute to win it games such as move the cookie down your face, pass the ornaments with spoons in the mouth, move the ornament across the room and blow the card off the table.

The kids sang some songs to the parents.

Then it was group and family picture time!

And of course my co-teachers had to join the fun!!!

Thanksgiving virtual day

Every year our school designates 2-3 days as “virtual day”. This means that a full day of school activities are done at home. Some of the activities are computer-based while others are not.

For pre-kinder I try to keep the activities fun and family-friendly. I usually post 3-4 different choices for the families to choose from for their activities. I also include one of our math resources which gives ideas of using math concepts at home. For example counting steps as your walk up a stair way or organizing plastic containers from smallest to biggest. This hopefully gives the parents ideas of how to have a math rich environment in the home.

This year for Thanksgiving I gave students a few options of Thanksgiving activities. One of them was to create a “turkey sandwich” using materials in the kitchen. They then send me a picture. Here are some that I have received.