ARC 4K

Christmas Fun

We had a great time celebrating the Holidays in 4K! There were so many fun things to do! Here is a sample:

We decorated our cute little classroom Christmas tree,

wore the Rudolph nose when it was our turn to talk,

made Christmas/winter pictures with pattern blocks,

practiced letter recognition with a fun Santa game,

made ornament name necklaces,

made "Reindeer Chow"

and made delicious (and messy!) ice cream cone Christmas trees.

Gingerbread House Decorating Party

On December 14, each 4K student invited a "special helper" to help them decorate a gingerbread house. We had a lot of fun spending time with our special helper and decorated some beautiful houses! Before we started decorating, we had a few minutes to read with our helpers.

Then the real fun began!

Beautiful!!

Our Senses

One of our December units was "Our Senses." These are some of the activities we participated in to help us learn about the parts of our bodies we use to learn about the world around us:

We used our sense of hearing to play "Sound Bingo,"

we listened to our snack "snap, crackle, and pop,"

we experimented with rubber bands to learn about vibration/sound,

and we learned about high/low tones by experimenting with different levels of water in glasses. We tapped the glasses to hear the different tones made by the different amounts of colored water, colored corresponding paper glasses and glued them on to a paper strip to make songs, then "played" the songs we created!

We used our hands and our sense of touch to match shapes with their outlines,

and had fun making and playing with "slime."

We did learn about the other senses, but my camera was missing in action for those days :)

Holiday Family Fun Night

On December 5th we held our first annual Holiday Family Fun Night. The turnout was great! Our morning class, along with Miss Alison's Rock River morning ARC afternoon classes, put on a short program for all the parents/grandparents, then participated in several fun family activities.