Miss Ali's 1's Class: J is for Jesus in a Manger!

Keep the CHRIST in CHRISTMAS!

This past week our 1 year old friends learned about the birth of Jesus! We read stories about the Christmas story and the birth of Jesus! The kids loved playing with our nativity set and holding all the different people, like baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Shepherds! During circle time, we sang some favorite Christmas songs such as "Away in a Manger", "Silent Night", and "Go tell it on the mountain!" We played some of these on the ipad so the children could watch baby Jesus sleeping in a manger! Some of the kids would even say "shh night night!" So sweet!
We also did several crafts to get us ready for the coming of Jesus and Christmas day! We made Christmas trees by tracing our hand and then decorating them with pom poms and sequins! We also made lights with our thumbprints, Christmas ornaments and even Jesus in a manger with our handprint! The children LOVED to play in our Christmas sensory bin this week!! I put tinsel, pom poms, bows, paper shreds and toy candy canes all in the sensory bin for the kids to play with! They had a BLAST! Since the weather is beginning to get so cold, we spent a lot of our time fine-tuning our gross motor skills by playing in the gym with new toys! Take a look below at our fun week and stay tuned for what we have planned next week!

Shape of the month: CIRCLE
Color of the month: GREEN

Christmas Sensory Bin FUN!

We made Candy Canes and talked about the true meaning of a candy cane!

Decorating our class Christmas tree!

Making Christmas lights out of our thumbprint!
Jesus said "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8:12

Miss Jessica led chapel this week and we learned that the best gifts can come in the smallest packages! We learned that Jesus is the greatest gift of all and we can take him everywhere we go!