Winter Fun and Gingerbread Houses

We have had so much fun learning about winter and enjoying holiday festivities!  Harmony Preschoolers have been busy decorating gingerbread houses, trimming the tree, experimenting with ice and much much more.  We wish you all a very happy and safe holiday season. 

Making our own Gingerbread Baby

Where did he go???

We found him hiding outside!  

Winter Fun with our small group friends!  

Happy Holidays!  

Book list for Winter Fun

We at Harmony Preschool created a book list of featured literature from each of our favorite Harmony themes.  These books have been chosen by their past popularity and well as their support to our nine key core values.  We hope these books help bridge the gap between home and school.    

Winter Fun

Tacky the Penguin

By Helen Lister

Penguin and Pinecone

By Salina Yoon

Snow Party

By Harriet Ziefert

The Wild Toboggan Ride

By Suzan Reid

Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?

By Bill Martin Jr. / Eric Carle

Thomas’ Snowsuit

By R. Munsch

365 Penguins

By Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet

Stella Queen of the Snow

By Marie-Louise Gay

When Winter Comes

By Nancy Van Laan

The Mitten

By Jan Brett

Little Penguin’s Tale

By Audrey Wood

Owl Moon

By Jane Yolen

Gingerbread Baby

By Jan Brett

Celebrating Winter Holidays

Dream Snow

By Eric Carle

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree

By Robert Barry

Seven Days of Kwanzaa

By Ella Grier

My First Kwanzaa

By Karen Katz

Santa’s New Suit

By Rojany/Lester

The Polar Express

By Chris Van Allsburg

Olivia Helps with Christmas

By Ian Falconer

The Chanukah Guest

By Eric A. Kimmel

Light The Lights!

Margaret Moorman

Latkes, Latkes Good to Eat

By Naomi Howland

Bear Stays Up

By Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman

Wombat Devine

By Mem Fox

Pie Days!

Thank you to everyone for making our Thanksgiving pie day celebration a huge success!  Harmony Preschoolers enjoyed pumpkin pie with their families and started their Thanksgiving break with a full belly.   We look forward to many more celebrations together.  

Pumpkin Spice Play Dough

Pumpkin Spice Play Dough

Ingredients:

- 1 cup salt

- 1 cup water

- 1cup flour

- 1 tbsp cream of tartar

- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

- extra flour

- orange food coloring

Directions:

- In a medium saucepan, combine the salt, water, flour, and spice over medium heat.

- Add the food coloring to get the shade you desire.  

 - Stir the mixture together until it's thick and sticky.

- Remove from heat and let the dough cool.

- Dust counter top with flour.

- As soon as the dough is cool enough to handle, dump the dough on the floured counter top and knead in the flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Add flour until you reach the desired consistency.

- Store in an air-tight container.  

Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt



Thanksgiving  Scavenger  Hunt

Can you find:

•    Something rough?
• Something cold?
• Something in the shape of a circle, a rectangle and  if you’re really lucky, a heart.
• Now, can you find a piece of trash?
• Something yellow and something orange?
• How about two seeds?
• A pinecone?
• Something a bird would use for their home?
• Something that makes a sound?
•   A stick?

Have fun and good luck!   

 

  

We at Harmony Preschool created a book list of featured literature from each of our favorite Harmony themes.  These books were chosen by their past popularity as well as their support of our nine key core values.  We hope these books help bridge the gap between home and school.  

Native American Culture & Giving Thanks

Ten Little Rabbits

By Virginia Grossman & Sylvia Long

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message 

By Chief Jake Swamp 

Raven

By Gerald McDermot

Rattlesnacke Dance

By Jim Arnosky

I'm Thankful Each Day 

By P.K. Hallinan

The Quilt Story 

By Tony Johnston and Tomie dePaola

‘Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving

By Dav Pilkey

Everybody Needs A Rock

By Byrd Baylor

The Ledgend of the Indian Paintbrush

By Tomie dePaolo

Little Brother Moose

By James Kasperson

This House Is made of Mud

By Ken Buchanan

A Turkey for Thanksgiving

By Eve Bunting

Baby Rattesnake

Adapted by Lynn Moroney

Native American Culture

Our Native American theme is in full swing here at Harmony Preschool.  Preschoolers have enjoyed building tepees, dying fabric, cooking corn bread, creating pinch pots and much more!  We have had so much fun exploring Native American artifacts from the University of Colorado's Museum of Natural History.  We look forward to continuing to learn about the Native American culture over the next couple weeks.     

The Cupcakes Making Tepees

Lacing Work

Painting With Berries

Fun in the Tepee

Weaving Work

Let me read you a story about Native Americans! 

I made a snake!  

Leaf Stamping 

Creating a drum

Decorating a totem pole  

Painting with Feathers 

Painting a pinch-pot 

Decorating Turkey Feathers