Making Edible Snowmen with our High School Buddies

Donna Niles' High School classes often come in to observe, volunteer, and teach mini lessons to the children in the Promise Center.  On Monday, the High School students organized 3 stations to teach the Kindergartners about nutrition, the food groups, and healthy snacks.  On Wednesday, we all went to their classroom to make a snack using food from various food groups.  We made edible snowmen, and boy did we have fun doing it!  

We took them back to our classroom and ate them during Milk Break.  YUMMY!

Thank You Notes

The Kindergartners learned a valuable lesson today!  We talked about the importance of showing appreciation for gifts that we receive.  Last week, they each got two gifts during our Promise Center Gift Exchange.  The children decided that one way to show how grateful we are to our 1st Grade and 4K friends who made us playdough and room decorations would be to make them a "Thank You" Card.  Each of the children had two cards to make.  They copied the words I wrote on the board and decorated BOTH cards by themselves.  It was a lot of work to get both of these done this afternoon!  We will deliver our cards to our friends later this week!

 Angie

 Kirsten tracing her pencil letters with a marker.

 Kindale concentrating very hard.

 Kylynn decorating her card.

 Aydan said "Don't forget me!"

 Ashlee put polka-dots on her cards.

 Edgar and Owen drawing for their friends.  

 Kaidren

Gracie

Promise Center Gift Exchange, Polar Express Day & PJs

Today was SO much fun!  The children were so excited to arrive to school in their PJs for a party day!  

This morning we read the book "The Polar Express" and the book "Pajama Time".

We exchanged our home-made gifts that we have been working so hard on.  The kindergartners made "Socktopuses" (an octopus out of an old sock) and gave one to every pre-schooler and every 1st Grader.  

The 1st Graders made Playdough for us.  The card they gave us was a butterfly that we can balance on our fingers!

The pre-schoolers made us a decoration with our names on them to hang in our rooms, on a door, or (as Kaidren pointed out) on our Christmas Trees!

We finished the day by taking our Golden Tickets to board the "Polar Express" in Mrs. G's room.  She punched our tickets at the door so we could enter and watch the movie.  

We took a snack break in the middle and enjoyed some hot chocolate.  Thanks to Evan, Gage, Kaidren, Kindale, Kirsten, and Gracie for bringing treats for us to enjoy on this very special day!

What an eventful day!