Day 11 - Christmas Advent

Matthew 2:1-12

Make a page for your child's book. The page reads, "A big star shown over the stable." The kids used red, orange, and yellow tissue paper squares to decorate the star.

Read and listen to the CD of Follow the Star by Rachel W. N. Brown

Day 10 - Christmas Advent

Day 10

Read Luke 2:8-20 about the Shepherds in the field

Make a lamb with a hand print, cotton balls and google-eyes. The page reads "Angles told the shepherds, "Jesus is born! You will find him lying in a manger."


Read God Gave Us Christmas by Lisa T Bergen

Day 9 -Christmas Advent

December 9

Read Luke 2: 6-7

Make page 6 of the book: A stable, manger, animals, Jesus that reads “ Baby Jesus was born in a stable."

Read The Nativity by Jule Vivas. The artwork was a little weird (and graphic) so we probably will not read this one again! :)

Day 8 -Christmas Advent

Day 8 - Christmas Advent

Read Luke 2:6-7

Make a nativity using toast, peanut butter, graham cracker, marshmallows as a snack today

The marshmellow is baby Jesus wrapped in a blanket and the pretzels are the stable!

Make page 5 of your child's book: The page reads” There was no room at the inn”

Read This is the Stable by Cynthia Cotten

Day 7 -Christmas Advent

Day 7 - Christmas Advent

Read Luke 2:15
Discuss how Mary and Joseph probably had a 4-6 day journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem (by foot, on a donkey, or by being pulled in a cart) in order to be counted in the census. What might this have been like for Mary since she was so close to giving birth to Jesus?

Make page 3: Donkey picture that reads: Mary and Joseph had to travel to Bethlehem. Mary rode on a donkey.

Read Mary’s First Christmas Story a Learning Bible Stories is Fun Arch Books

Laptop Lunches

Each week at preschool, the students focus on a letter of the week. On Friday of that week, I pack a Letter Lunch.

For B lunch,we had bologna and cheese roll-ups with a bear pick, broccoli, blueberries and Cheeze-it Scrabble Letters

For C Lunch, Brooke enjoyed cantaloupe and dried cranberries, chicken, carrots and cookies (with letters on them)

For D Lunch, we had Dino nuggets, Del Monte corn, dried berries, D'animals smoothie, and Dora gummies

For E lunch, Brooke had English muffins with turkEy and chEEse, cheese cut into a capital E, edamame, and a hard boiled egg.

For F lunch, the girls had a tuna fish sandwich cut into a fish with carrot fins and eye, goldfish crackers, fig newtons, Fruit by the Foot, and fruit.

For the G lunch, the girls had Golden Graham cereal with milk in their water bottle today, goldfish, grapes (green and purple), green beans and green jello

H lunch included hummus and tortilla chips, heart shaped sandwiches, a Hersey bar, heart shaped cucumber and honeydew melon

For I lunch, there was iceberg lettuce with Italian dressing, Ice-blue jello cut into ice cubes, Indian corn (notice the Indian in the corn) and pretzels to make the letter I. They also had a very special drink of an Iron Man bellywasher.

Day 6 - Christmas Advent

Day 6 - Christmas Advent Activities
Read Matthew 1:18-24

about an angel telling Joseph that Mary would have a baby named Jesus.

Color a picture on page 2 of the book. It will read: Mary and Joseph were very happy. They had a lot to do to get ready for the baby. We used felt as their head garments.

Read The Beginner's bible The Very First Christmas