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

Oh Boy! Next week is a big week! Our friend Gil will be visiting. Gil is every child's favorite naughty gingerbread man and the kids can't wait for December to be over so they can meet him. This week, we reviewed shapes and numbers and built on identifying skills for both. We used different shapes to make our cities. The children really had their creative juices flowing and it was wonderful to see it. We also practiced number identification by snipping our scarecrows apart and putting them back together in number order. The computer center was very popular this week. Our new classroom program is a hit and every child works independently on different skills, at his/her own pace. In our art cenetr, shaving cream shapes was a great hit! We ended our week introducing opposites!

It's that time of year again! The PTA Holiday Shop is back! In your child's folder you can find an envelope to place the money that you would like your child to spend and specify how much money should be spent and for whom the gift should be purchased for. Our three year old class will not be attending the holiday shop but are welcomed to shop with and adult during the Holiday Concert on December 5th.

I hope that everyone enjoys their weekend.

Mrs. Gilberti

Gobble Gobble is pretty much what I did over Thanksgiving Day! I hope your holiday was just just as filled with food, family and friends as mine was! We had so much fun getting ready for the holiday. The children really enjoyed making their turkey sticks and learning about the Native Americans and Pilgrims. On Wednesday, we all watched The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and munched on porcorn and pretzels. I absolutely loved making the Thankful Trees. It is always so funny and sweet, at the same time, to hear what the children are thankful for. Overall, it was a great shortened week!

Mrs. Gilberti

I hope that everyone had a great weekend. We had a very busy week last week. We finished up our harvest basket. We filled it it up with yummy vegetables. Speaking of vegetables, I was so proud to see our preschoolers enjoying the vegetables that I brought in for our taste test. Some of my students were sooooo brave to try a vegetable they had never tried before! Well, I

guess having some ranch dip did help a little! We graphed our favorite vegetable and as I thought, carrots had the most votes for favorite vegetable. On Friday, we introduced the letter T. We worked on the sound of T and how to make a T using our wooden sticks. We also had some fun decorating our turkey and T with pom poms.

We only have a few more day until Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving break! Please remember that Wednesday is a half day, and P.M. session will be joining the A.M. session. The children will be let out at 11:00. Also, Stall Day is here again! We will be collecting loose change to donate towards Thanksgiving dinners and holiday cards for Oxford Families.

Mrs. Gilberti

It was great to have everyone back this week. I'm sorry that all school festivities were cancelled but very happy to see a few of our preschoolers out trick-or treating, on Saturday! Thank you to everyone who came to our parent/teacher conferences. I enjoyed talking to you all about your children.

We continued to work on letter H this week and introduced letters V and S. We have begun to work on our Harvest baskets and talked a lot about vegetables and healthy foods.

Please remember that tomorrow is picture retake day! please return the photos that you do not want. Enjoy your weekend.

Mrs. Gilberti