Santa

This week we will be busy preparing gifts for loved ones, learning about the letter i, and enjoying many great Christmas rhymes.  To begin the week I introduced the children to our new estimation jar.  I explained to the children that an estimation is an educated guess.  We have to use information that we already know to make our guess.  In today's jar I placed 3 small candy canes.  The children took turns estimating how many they thought were in the jar.  We had numbers from 2 to 5 million.  We then talked about how much empty space was in the jar, so the number had to be a low number.  Tomorrow I will add more candy canes to the jar and we will estimate again.

For centers today the children made a Santa.  They worked on following multiple step directions.  They also increased their fine motor skills.