Wrapping Christmas Gifts

This week was all about the Christmas gifts! Here is an overview of what we did.

Books:

This book is super cute!  There are multiple things that have "smelly stickers" on it, so the kids can small different Christmas items such a pine tree, hot chocolate, gingerbread cookies, etc.  We talked about how things smelled and which smells the students liked.  It was also a great way to practice taking turns and waiting patiently, because all of the my students were super excited to smell the items!

We read this book in my articulation class to practice the /g/. Every time I said "Grinch" I held up a small picture of the Grinch.  Whenever my students saw the picture, they had to put their tongue back for the /g/ and say Grinch with  me!

This is a beautiful book!  We also read this book to see what different cultures do on Christmas.  We saw pictures of kids in Mexico, the Philippines, etc.

Group Activity:

We had a fun group activity this week! We played with a parachute with bows.  I made it into a math activity also.  I had the students pick out a number from a bag and a color. Then the students had to help me count out that specific number of colored bows on the the parachute.  At the end we put all 150 bows in the parachute.  It looked really beautiful!

Art:

Our art this week was super fun!  We did "bow painting."  We gave the students paint, and they had to dip the bow into it and use the bow as a paint brush.  

Sequencing Activity:

For our sequencing activity this week we wrapped Christmas gifts.  I was able to target a bunch of vocabulary words and following directions. We were also able to practice some fine motor skills!