Christmas is Coming!

There's lots of holiday fun and excitement in the air at the Speech Garden as we prepare for our Holiday program.  We really hope that you all will be able to make it for our performance and Holiday Village.  It's going to be a super fun time to share with your child, and also a great opportunity to promote speech and language skills during the activities that we have planned.  So with that being said, Bristol and Ryan spent a lot of time this morning practicing for their performance.  They are really starting to learn the songs, and they are having a lot of fun doing it.  Now who knows whether or not they will perform with 30+ parents watching them, but regardless, they will definitely look cute trying!

The touch and feel pool today was full of pop-blocks.  We talked about all the different colors.  We pulled them apart and pushed them together.  We sorted all the different colors to make red towers or white towers, etc.  We also practiced making patterns with different colors.

It's been two weeks since we saw our friends from DUMC preschool on the playground because of weather and various "Out and Abouts."  Ryan and Bristol seemed very excited to see their playground buddies.  We played with our usual balls, cars, and bubbles; and they seemed to really enjoy creating chalk art.

This is Ryan's rainbow!

Bristol enjoyed making circles round and around!

Today we read Christmas is Coming by Claire Masurel.  This book shows a little girl named Juliette preparing for Christmas with her family as they pick out the perfect Christmas tree, trim the tree, bake cookies, and make decorations.  Juliette does this with all of her favorite stuffed animals "helping" her.  Juliette and her friends are super excited when they see Santa flying in the sky with his reindeer, and they are even more excited when they see all the fun surprises that Santa left them under the tree.  

After we read our book, Bristol and Ryan enjoyed sponge-painting green Christmas trees with red ornaments.  We repeated the phrases "lift it up" and "push it down" as we made each green tree.  Then they used "do-a-dot" paints to add the ornaments.  

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday for our last day of school in 2013!  Remember to practice your dancing Christmas tree song so that our performance on Thursday is a huge success!