It was a wonderful day today! Thank you all for the very generous gifts! I truly appreciate them but they were not needed because being able to teach your children every day is the greatest gift I could ever ask for. I hope that everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season. Gil is going to hibernate until next December but he sends his love to all!

Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Mrs. Gilberti!!!!!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! December is full of celebrations and this week in preschool we had fun learning about Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa traditions! We made Christmas trees, Kinaras and Menorahs. We compared the similarities/differences in the way we celebrate these holidays and the symbols that represent these holidays. We also took notice to the colors that are associated with these holidays and had a blast playing with dreidels! It was a great week.

Next week, we will have a half day. All children will be attending the morning session. from 8:20-11:00 a.m. We will end our last hour of class by enjoying a few snacks, that I will provide and a holiday movie. If you would like to join us for a movie, you are welcomed to join us at 10 a.m. Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

Well, I'm sure by now you have all heard that GIL IS BACK!!!!!!! The kids love how he is always hiding and being fresh. We had so much fun with Gil this week. We enjoyed our Gingerbread man story. Some of our friends chose to make their own Gingerbread man books to take home. We had a great time being authers and each coming up with our own ending to the story. We made our own gingerbread men and used yarn (icing) to lace, following the numbers to help us along. We glittered glued letter G and worked on fine motor skills by picking up our sequence beads to helo our letter G gleam! Reading our story over and over was so much fun and the children did a fantastic job retelling the story with their own sequence cards. The chorus of "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man" could be heard though out the week, in every center. In our art center, the kids enjoyed making gingerbread man cookies too!

I hope that everyone has a great weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti