Polar Express Day and Christmas Celebrations

I am sorry this post is so late. The holidays were so busy, but I hope everyone had a great break. Here are some pictures from the last day before the Winter Holidays. We had our "Polar Express Day" and our Christmas celebrations all on this day! It was so much fun.

We started out by watching some of the movie "The Polar Express".

Then we had a guest "train conductor" come to our door. He blew his whistle and called "All aboard!" We followed him to our make believe train.

He punched our golden tickets as we boarded the train.

Layla has her ticket punched!
Then our conductor, Mr. Henderson, read us "The Polar Express" book.

At the end of the book, we sang "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and look who appeared!!

We sang Christmas carols together. Who knew Santa could play the piano?

Mrs. Claus came too!

Max didn't know what to think!

Carter was enjoying every minute!

Then all of the kids got to go get their picture made with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Carter went first.

Salina and her brother, Christopher, with Santa and Mrs. Claus

Layla went next

Max was so excited to see Santa.

So was Jacob

Tony wasn't so sure, but he sat on St. Nick's lap anyways.

After we all saw Santa, we returned to our class for our Christmas celebration.

Present time!

Ready to go home for the holidays! We had such a fun, special day! We can't wait to do it again next year!

Our New Toy!

We are so excited to have some new technology in our room! Our school bought our children a Kindle Fire to help them learn to read! It is so much fun and easy for them to use! It really makes learning to read fun! Carter and Salina were the first to try out our new reading tool

Thanksgiving Program

We are so proud of our kindergarten boys who participated in the Thanksgiving program!

They did so good with their different speaking parts and songs. They were all pilgrim boys.

Tyler

One of our former students, C.J.

Another one of our DD graduates, Andrew H.

Andrew G.

Baby Caroline Comes to Visit!

Ever since I returned to school this year, the kids have been asking me about Caroline. So, I agreed to have my Mom bring Caroline to school once she was old enough. They had so much fun playing with her and talking to her. They were really good with her! I think she enjoyed meeting some "little people" too!Everyone gently touching Baby Caroline:)

I love her face in this picture. She is like "I am not so sure about this."

Tony was so funny! He had to go get a baby out of the homeliving center!

Salina asked if she could hold Caroline. She did great!

Amanda also did well holding Caroline.

Thanks for coming to visit us, Baby Caroline! Everyone loved meeting you!

Pumpkin Carving and Fall Celebration

In honor of fall, we decided to carve one of the pumpkins that we got on our field trip to Nivens Apple Farm. The kids thought it was so much fun getting their hands dirty. Salina scooping out some of the pumpkin seeds.

Jacob wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty!Tony even liked it!

Carter helped me decide on what kind of eyes to give our jack-o-lantern.

Mrs. Glenn was very proud of the nose she carved out.

Then it was time to carve out a mouth for our jack-o-lantern.

Our finished product!

Then we had some special snacks in honor of the fall season!

We had a lot of fun celebrating this special time of year!