Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel...We made you out of Clay!

In celebration of Hanukah, we read the book " I Have A Little Dreidel" by Maxi Baum. After learning about the eight nights of Hanukah and the clay spinning top called a dreidel, we decieded to make our own dreidels and play for chocolate coins.

The children all enjoyed rolling the clay and shaping the driedels themselves. After the dreidels were ready, we played the game. We had put numbers on each side, instead of hebrew letters, to determine the amount of coins to be traded during the game. We had such fun spinning the dreidel and even more fun eating the chocolate coins we won!

Rolling clay to make our dreidels.

OH- Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel,
I made you out of clay,
And when your dry and ready,
OH- Dreidel I shall play!

The Holiday Show! (Featuring Miss Erin's Singing Holiday Elves, and the production of Miss Melissa's Gingerbread Man Play!!!

Behind the scenes....The Making of Masks!

Painting Mural Background for Holiday Play: The Gingerbread Man Story

We are putting on a play at the Holdiay Party. We have all been practicing our lines and making our costumes!!! Here are a few pictures of some artists painting the background for our school play!

Can you guess what play we are preforming????

Getting Ready For Fall Festival: Cooking Pumpkin Seeds

After reading Eric Carle's The Tiny Seed, we talked about what seeds need in order to grow into plants. We decided they need: soil, water, sunlight and air to grow into healthy plants.

We also learned that animals and people eat seeds to stay healthy! We decided to see what pumpkin seeds tasted like. We bought a small pumpkin and cut it open to find many, many, many seeds inside.... 

Getting ready to scoop out the pumpkin seeds!

We all scooped the seeds out into the big bowl.

We washed the pumpkin seeds in cold water and added salt.

We dried the seeds and sprayed them with butter spray, we put them on a baking sheet in the oven.

The pumpkin seeds smelled so good and tasted even better!

Getting Ready for Fall Festival: Skeleton Parade

Making Our Skeleton Parade For Fall Festival

First we traced the outline of our bodies then we painted the outline with black paint!

Next we glued the different types of bones onto our bodies....

After our skeletons dried, we cut them out and hung them up on the fence outside for the Fall Festival!

The Skeleton Parade Poem

The skeletons are out tonight,

They march about the street,

With bony bodies, bony heads,

And bony hands and feet.

Bony bony bony bones

with nothing in between,

Up and down and all around

They march on Hallowe'en.

Getting Ready for Fall Festival: Scarecrow Kids

Having Fun Outside Making Scarecrow Kids.

Stuffing our scarecrow clothes with hay.

Our Fall Festival Scarecrow Kids :)