What a fun week we had with the book The Polar Express and everything trains! We started the week making a name train with our LAST name! The kids designed their engine, cut it out, glued it onto a sentence strip in a red green pattern, and then wrote their last name on the train cars! It was a very cool activity and we had some pretty loooong trains!
We followed step-by-step directions to draw a train.
We had a very cool alphabet train that the kids loved building and playing with!
And we even made trains using pattern blocks and graphed how many of each block we used!
We also did A LOT with the theme of Christmas! The kids had a blast making snowflake ornaments for their tree, and it was a great way to sneak in some fine motor practice!
They matched upper and lowercase letters by stamping them on the Christmas Tree.
And even read color words to decorate lights on a reindeer's antlers!
We ended our week with the BIG Polar Express celebration! Each kid had to get their ticket punched to board the Polar Express!
Then they boarded the train and listened to the story The Polar Express.
After the story was over, we heard ringing in the classroom. We looked and looked to discover we all had bells under our chairs!
Then we took our tickets and bells to our seats to enjoy a Polar Express Treat. We had "hot chocolate" with marshmallows, candy canes, and made a graham cracker choo-choo train! We listened to Christmas music and had fun with our friends!
It was a great way to kick off the holiday season! I can't wait to continue it next week with Gingerbread!
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