Today was the third and last day of our unit, which will also include a field trip to a Board & Care facility to debut our Christmas play. During the opening, after welcome and calendar, I explained to everyone that on Thursday we were going to a Board and Care facility to put on our play and sing for the grandmas at the facility. They were all very curious about these "grandmas" that they would be singing for and this opened a lengthy discussion about these particular residents and their own grandmas of course. All of the children were also very excited about the upcoming holidays and what they would be doing for Christmas.
We missed Kai in the morning as he wasn't feeling well, but he was able to come later in the day for the Christmas play rehearsal.
Following a Christmas book, we proceeded to work on our craft project for the day. The craft was to paint with glitter paint on cinnamon-scented pine cones. I explained to the children that we would be giving these pine cones as gifts to the grandmas and employees at the Board & Care. I also told then that they could pick one pine cone to take home to their families. We also practiced the Christmas songs that would be part of the Christmas play.
Today, we also had the culmination of our "secret buddies" and each of the Joy Schoolers received a Christmas present book from their secret buddy. They were all very excited about this.
After snack and some outside play, Eve's mom came to help us with our Christmas play, which she had written for them. The children all chose parts. Emily was Mary, Joseph was Joseph, Grant and Kai were wise men, Eve was a Shepherdess and Isabel was an angel. The practice went really well and everyone seemed into their part.
We look forward to a big Christmas spectacular!
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