December 2, 2011

Today we finished up our "Our Bodies" theme.  On Wednesday, we learned how our bodies grow and change throughout our lives.  We brought in our baby pictures and had fun trying to guess who each baby was!  We also compared our baby pictures with more recent pictures of ourselves.  Today we focused on ways to keep our bodies healthy.  We talked about staying clean, wearing our seatbelts and helmets, eating healthy food, getting lots of sleep.  We took turns adding a cup of water to either the "tub" or "shower" side of our balancing scale to see which method of getting clean our class prefered.  It turned out we were actually split down the middle!

Mrs. Greenfield put a special lotion with red "germs" on her hands then shook our hands and had us shake each other's hands to see how easily germs spread. 

We watched her wash her "germy " hands in the sink without using soap and saw that most of the germs were still there.  Then we saw how washing long enough to sing "Happy Birthday" and using soap got all the "germs" off!  We were all happy to get all our germs off our hands too.

Since it is the beginning of December, we also made a Santa Christmas Countdown Calendar.  We need to cut off one section from Santa's body each day, then when we get to the top, it will be Christmas!

We also had fun calling for pizza delivery, calling the doctor, calling ourselves and our friends using our new class phone book and play phone.

Next week's newsletter will be coming home on Monday.  It will tell you that when you arrive Monday evening for the Holiday Family Fun Night, you are asked to please bring your child down to the classroom then to wait for the program part of the event to begin in the church sanctuary.  If you have said you would bring a snack drink for the event, please feel free to either send it along with your child to school Monday or just bring it with you when you come to the event.  We've been practicing hard and are very excited for Monday!