New Year & Three New Friends

The new year has brought many frigid days, but we have still been busy in Jumpstart.  The past couple of weeks we have worked on the color white, the circle, the triangle, and the 4th day God created.  We have also welcomed three new friends, Kelsie, Jude, and Brooklyn, to our class.

For our crafts, we made a white polar bear, a potato stamped snowman, and a triangular lion's face.

We worked on scissor cutting straws.  Everyone loved how the straw pieces went flying when they cut them.  

We also played in ice and matched shapes with our cookie matching game. 

A Jumpstart Christmas

Christmas time was a fun time in Jumpstart.  We worked on learning the colors green and brown, learning all about the birth of baby Jesus, and practicing our songs for the annual HFYH Christmas program.

We made hand print Christmas trees and glued on jewels for ornaments.  We worked on our fine motor skills by decorating our very own Christmas tree with ornaments and tinsel.  We also played with our Christmas theme sensory table and felt board. We started working on recognizing our names, so we made Christmas lights with each letter.

 We learned about baby Jesus. We read stories and sang songs about his birth, and we used stickers to learn about where Jesus was born and who was there to welcome him to our world.