Happy Holidays!

 I'm so excited to share our last few months with you.

Here we go:

The following few pictures may not look like much, but they show the first time since Covid changed our lives, that we have gathered the children together for an assembly . No children from K-3 had had an assembly before. Here we enjoyed the JBLM Big Foot Band for Veterans Day.



Many things cannot happen without the help of classroom volunteers. Thank you to all of you who came in every Wednesday to help us learn about the our First Nations. The children created, animals, and plants that were important parts of their lives, and then placed them on our map in the hallway.



















We started learning about Winter Holidays around the world. We learned about Divali in India and made Diyas or small candle holders. The children made their own salt dough, then added beads for decoration.



In December, we started painting our winter scene t-shirts. Some children made their own designs, others had a definite picture plan.









We had a parade on the morning of St. Lucia Day, and we brought gingerbread cookies to our kindergarten teachers. 



We learned about Hanukkah. and started to notice a theme....winter holidays all have something to do with light.



We learned about the Winter Solstice. It was fun to be able to celebrate and light the tree that same night.


We had a crafts workshop where we made cards and lanterns, and ornaments.







On our last day we learned about the 3 states of matter: solids, liquids, and gasses. Then we worked in teams of 5 and made butter; shaking heavy cream in a jar, finding the solid hiding in the liquid.






                                        We were treated to hot cocoa by the PTA's Polar Express.                                                                                                                                                                                                          






And we finish the way we started...an assembly. The Cherrydale Sing-along was back at last.

Thank you all for the sweet gifts and warm wishes. I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas had a lovely one with smiles all around. I'll have a newsletter out next week.

                                                                                                 



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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