Jingle Bells!

On Monday and Tuesday we read the book Jingle Bells and talked about horse-drawn sleighs. Then we sang practiced singing the song, which we will perform at the Winter Festival.

For music, we listened to The Skater’s Waltz. On the second listen we used pieces of wax paper under our feet to ‘skate’ around the room. Our letter of the week is ‘M’, so we also learned about the mandolin, an instrument from the string family. Each child had a turn playing the mandolin.

Then the children made their own jingle sticks, which they use at the Winter Festival.

Tuesday was Cassidy’s special day. She brought her older brother’s Webkinz to show the class and her mom read the classic story, 101 Dalmatians. Thank you, Rhonda, for helping out and for the delicious cupcakes!