MOON Watchers

A total lunar eclipse will occur the night of Monday, December 20th and it will be visible from our area! The penumbral begins at 9:27pm - that's a reddish glow, followed by the umbral at 10:32pm. The umbral is the beginning of the earth's shadow on the moon. The total eclipse begins just beforre midnight, at 11:40pm, and ends at 12:53am. The greatest eclipse is at 12:17am. Hope for clear skies!

Christmas Program

We are very excited about our first music performance. Our theme is a 40's radio show so all the children are dressed in black and white.

The kindergarten girls are looking very pretty.

Look at these handsome boys.

1940's CR

SB

Waiting for our turn in the program.

Posing for Mrs. VanNice.

When is it our turn?

I see my family! Do you see yours?

There's no place like home for the holidays.

KS and TD sing "A Place Like Home".

Hey, that's Santa.

With big sister helping FR steps up to see Santa Claus.

EH cautiously eyes Santa.

BAKING GINGERBREAD COOKIES

JM is checking the sprinkles before they go on his gingerbread cookie.

NP is taking the cookies into the kitchen to be baked.

More pink sprinkles!

NP and FR decorate their gingerbread cookies.

JM has the dough all ready to go.

Let's use this cookie cutter.

CJR is helping the boys get their gingerbread men just so.

KS rolls out her dough for gingerbread girls and boys.

JL carefully cuts out a gingerbread house.

CR is really concentrating on his work.

KG is helping the boys with their gingerbread men.

AH is helping the girls with their gingerbread cookies.

Yum... these cookies look good enough to eat! We made enough cookies to eat them for snack and take some home to our families. Merry Christmas!

Gingerbread Science

Look at JN's gingerbread man after he put it in water. It disolved in the bottom of his cup!

EH is checking her gingerbread cookie...

Can you see JL's gingerbread cookie? I wonder what will happen? Kindergartners were very excited about their experiment. In the story of the gingerbread man he rides on the fox's back to keep from getting wet, so we decided to find out what happens to gingerbread when it does get wet. Here is what we discovered: He crushed up into little pieces... he broke into pieces... he got slimy but when I took him out of the water he broke... he stayed together until I put my hand in the water... the water turned green and he got mushy.. when I took it out it broke... smushed and broke into little pieces... only the part I put in the water broke off...

Reindeer Toast

Today we made reindeer toast. First we spread peanut butter on the toast, then we added raisin or chocolate chip eyes, a cherry nose, and pretzel antlers.

Yum... good!

JL and CK show off their reindeer toast!

NP enjoys his toast.

Hey, we're pretty good cooks...

Yummy. After we finished eating our reindeer toast we made glyphs that told something about us - how old we are, if we like peanut butter, if we like chocolate chips or raisins, and if we are a girl or boy. Stop in at school and see our reindeer in the hallway.

Traveling Gingerbread Men

SB is getting her gingerbread man letter ready to mail. We send gingerbread men all over the United States and we hope to get some postcards back in the mail that tell where our gingerbread men traveled.

NP is signing his gingerbread man letter. I wonder where he'll send it?

NP working at the building station. He's building a plane for his little brother.

The girls are coloring and cutting out gingerbread cookies and gingerbread houses at the writing station.

Christmas Light Necklaces

FR is working on a pattern for her necklace. Later we will add the letters in her name.

AH helps MH put her Christmas light necklace together.

I love the patterns. Green, yellow and green, red. Good job girls!

We like our necklaces!

Ugh, girls can be so-o-o silly...

No more jack-o-lanterns in our classroom. The mold ate right through the plastic sack and made a huge mess, and oh, did it ever smell BAD!