Children can make these gift cones for party favors, or to give to their families, friends, neighbors, etc. By varying the color, decorations, stickers or contents these can be made for holidays, birthdays and many other occasions.

Materials:
8 inch square of construction paper
5x10 inch strip of tissue paper
10 inch piece of ribbon
stickers, stamps, markers, etc for decorating
individually wrapped candies, mixes, etc.
glue
scissors

Directions:
Roll the square of construction paper into a cone and glue the overlapping edges together. Trim away the excess paper to make the top of the come level. Glue the tissue paper inside the cone one inch from the top, with the remaining tissue sticking above the edge. Decorate the cone with stickers, stamps, drawings, etc. Fill the cone with candies, mixes, or other small items. Tie the top of the tissue with ribbon.

Children love to be involved in holiday reparations. These can be made to decorate your home or as gifts for family and friends.

Materials:
crayons (broken one are perfect – remove paper)
disposable muffin tin
cotton swabs
Styrofoam eggs or balls
sequins
small beads
ribbon
pins

Directions:
Place one crayon (with paper removed) in each cup of a disposable muffin tin. Place the tin on a food warming tray or in an oven set at a very low temperature until crayons melt. Use cotton swabs to apply the melted wax to Styrofoam eggs or balls. Decorate with ribbon, sequins or beads. Using a pin attach a ribbon loop to the top for hanging.

Grandparents love pictures of their grandchildren. Microsoft offers you 51 Calendar Templates to use in Word. Take your pick, insert your pictures, print it out, wrap it and you are done!

Word Templates
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT103589901033.aspx?av=ZWD000

Teach your children the importance of sharing blessings with friends, family and neighbors. Scoop individual servings of the snack mix into small bags With ribbon attach a card to each bag with an explanation of the blessing mix (see below). Also include a message similar to, ?We?re thankful for you every season of the year.?

In a large bowl mix equal amounts of Bugles-brand corn snacks, pretzels, dried fruit and sunflower seeds. Sprinkle in some candy corn. While your children pour and stir, take time to discuss the meaning behind each ingredient?

? bugles represent a cornucopia, or a horn of plenty

? pretzels represent arms folded in thanks and prayer

? dried fruits represent the celebration of the harvest, Thanksgiving and when the Pilgrims finally had enough food to eat

? sunflower seeds represent the potential of a bounteous harvest for the next season

? candy corn represents maize (corn). During the first year of settlement, many Pilgrims died because food was so scarce. The pilgrims were each allotted only 5 kernels of corm per day. Native Americans shared corn with them and taught them how to plant this new crop.

Brice was tugging on his pants and Mrs. Lucie said, "Brice, do you want some help with your pants?" Brice said, "no, my butt's falling." (The problem was his underwear were not completely pulled off!)

Ava W. came in one morning and shared some very disturbing news with the class. She said, "I got shot!" The children and staff questioned her, (with a hand on her arm) she said, "Yeah, the doctor shot me!"
(She meant she had a flu shot)

Erin's class (1's & 2's)

Lochlann observes: birds squawking
planes flying by
sounds of spills..."uh oh"
tall trees blowing in the breeze

Aaron observes....
planes flying by
papa's feet when he's walking upstairs

Julianna observes...
yawns..."are you tired Miss Erin?"

Seamus observes...
coughing and asks "Are you okay?"

As the children (pre school) and I were getting ready to enjoy and fall Friday afternoon outside we stopped to notice the different colors and types and differences between our own jackets and our friends jackets. We also included other items such has hats and mittens!

Examples:
Casey has a pink and purple Dora the explorer hat and it has a rim
Devlyn has a purple knit hat
Michael has a camouflage jacket with a zipper
Chloe has a brown jacket with zipper and buttons
Ava has a bright pink hat, blue jacket and pink butterfly gloves
Brice has a black zipper jacket with a blue hat with a spider sewn on the side
Elise has a purple jacket and a pink princess hat with a bow
Vance has a brown zipper jacket and a tan vest.
We also sang a song about our shoes. We noticed what type (sneaker clog ect.) Color and any characters or interesting things about our shoes. Such as instead of laces they may have had velcro!

Here's an example of our song
"New shoes, old shoes Elise has brown flowered shoes"
"New shoes old shoes Miss Brianna has white and silver shoes"
We also got into group based on hat, shoe, jacket color.
We have some very Observant children ! They don't miss a thing !

Miss Brianna

Brice

One day on the playground Pastor Rick was teasing his grandson Aaron as he rocked back and forth on the blue rocking horse. He laughingly said, “You’re a monster! You’re a monster!”

Brice stopped playing, walked over and said with indignation, “Pastor Rick, he’s not a monster, he’s a baby!!”

Chloe

One day Chloe’s dad came to pick her up. As he walked in, Chloe sneezed and Mrs. Teresa said, “God bless you.” Chloe sneezed again and he dad said, “God bless you.” She sneezed again and Mrs. Teresa asked her, “What’s going on Chloe?” Chloe replied, “I don’t know. I have the God Bless you’s”

Elise

Pastor Rick came out of the building and walked toward the playground. As Children spotted him they called out, “Pastor Rick!” When Elise looked up saw him she turned to Mrs. Teresa and said, “He’s my family.” (Pastor Rick has been stopping by and visiting with Elise’s dad Keith since she was little.)

Here’s a simple but fun science activity your children will enjoy

Materials:
dark blue construction paper
some leaves or other objects
transparent tape

Directions:
Have your child position some leaves (or other objects) on a sheet of construction paper, using tiny pieces of tape on the underside of the leaves (or objects) to hold them down.

Place the paper outside in strong sunlight (on the sidewalk, driveway or table). Leave the paper in the sun all day.

At the end of the day have the children carefully remove the objects. They will discover shapes on the paper. Explain that the sun shining on the paper changed the color somewhat, but the paper under the objects was not exposed to the sun, so the color stayed the same.