It's a New Year!!

Back to Preschool today, after a 2 week Christmas Break. All the children were excited to see each other, and tell about the fun things we had received for Christmas. Each took a turn to tell about the toys, gifts and activities we did. We talked about the New Year. Together as a class we took down the classroom Christmas tree, and put up snow flakes on the preschool tree. I introduced January as our new month, and 2010 as our new year. We talked about how a new year is a time to celebrate and sometimes have parties. We learned a new year's song, made a 2010, new year mask, and ate party finger food for snack, (cheese and crackers, and little smokies).
During December our class was busy with practicing for our Christmas program and making fun Christmas crafts, that we put our numbers aside. However, today we reviewed our numbers 1-5. We traced our hand and painted dots on top of each finger that represented a number. We played games that matched numbers and dots. And of course sang 5 little monkeys, and 5 little ducks. Our 4-5 year olds practiced printing 1-5, cutting, and matching numbers with pictures.