Day 42

We were the jingle bells at our DCS Christmas Carolling today!  What fun to jingle even when we didn't know all the words.

Then we made Christmas cards and wrapped our Christmas presents and packed up for our Christmas Party!  We hiked through Foxwood Forest, better know as Edison Park.  There were water drops on all the trees.  It was the last day of fall so I guess fog turned to drops on trees is ok, although we usually have snow to hike through and talk about tracks in the snow.  We did find a every green bough and compared it with all the every green/fir trees along the way.  Its needles were either too short, or too flat, or too soft to be any of the trees along our route.  It was a good learning experience even though we didn't find out where the bough had come from.

We toured Mrs. B's fishy ocean bathroom, touched a rubber blow fish and a real one.  Saw a lobster tail from Maine, a huge barnacle from Alaska,  a coconut shell from Florida- all hanging in Mrs B's fish net on the ceiling...oh, and a sponge and a fake snake, and a fish made out of palm fronds from Hawaii.  We looked for 20 white things with wings- angels on Mrs B's Christmas tree.  We had two great moms to make a party for us!!  Mrs. Englert helped us make a ginger bread house.  Mrs. Barbee helped us make gingerbread men and some angels and reindeer as a craft.  Mrs. Englert brought an amazing game for us to play that let us move and make a lot of noise and we loved that!  Then we sat still for a minute or two while Mrs. B read us God Gave Us Christmas.  "Can we go find Santa, Mama?"  "Hmm.  Santa is hard to find,"  said Mama.  "But we can go find God.  God is everywhere."  Kids always talk about stuff like that and this book starts where they may be and the Mama helps baby bear to see how much God loves us by sending us Jesus.  That was my favorite time in the party because there are seven little souls so ready to hear God's truth and I get to sit in the middle of them for a short time in their life and help them meet my Savior.  Sappy sounding but from my heart!!

Merry Christmas to you all.  This has been a great year so far.  A little rest and off we'll go again!!  And now we have a magnetic white board for Reading Center and Number Notebook time.  With magnetic markers I won't misplace!  And a classy scarf and necklace from the class.  Thanks to the moms for a great party!!