Did someone say Christmas Celebration!

The Busy Bee’s had a slight sugar rush as we celebrated the holidays in the classroom.  After a lesson of learning about Hanukkah, Christmas, Las Posadas, Kwanzaa and Diwali (Celebration of lights), we ended our lesson with a holiday celebration and gift exchange.

Learning about letters

The paper had all lower case letters, the clothes pins had upper case letters, the children were encouraged to match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter..

Learning with puzzles

The Busy Bee’s explored a variety of holiday puzzles, as we talked about menorahs and dreidels.  These puzzles were quite interesting for the children as it added a much needed challenge to many of them!

 

The Busy Bee’s had a blast making their very own edible Christmas tree. We used sugar ice cream cones, a variety of candy, vanilla icing, sprinkles, and green food coloring. I added a few drops of green food coloring to our vanilla frosting, then after each child had their own ice cream cone, they were giving a spoon full of icing and encouraged to pain their trees green. After their icing was added no tree is complete with lights (sprinkles) and decorations (candy) some of the Busy Bee’s got creative and added presents under their trees (cookies).

What a tasty snack……Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Ms. McLean and the Busy Bee’s!