Hello and welcome to this month’s special lesson!
With this month being December, naturally we decided our lessons should be about the number one holiday celebrated around the globe… Christmas!!!
This month at Sunrise has been filled with Christmas cheer, songs and most important of all, kindness to one another! This month, our students have practiced numerous Christmas songs such as “Deck the Halls”, “Santa Clause Is Coming To Town”, “Winter Wonderland” and “Little Snowflake”, to name just a few. We have studied ornaments, presents, reindeer, snowmen, elves, and of course, Santa Clause. We decorated our school with Christmas stockings, snowmen and had our students decorate their own Christmas trees which they displayed proudly to their parents.
To help our upcoming Christmas Party feel even more festive, our students created their own hats to wear during the event. Our Little Caterpillars created tiny snowmen to wear as hats, while the Hungry Caterpillars made hats that looked like reindeer. The Shiny Butterflies decided to create amazing Santa Clause hats, while the Flutter Butterflies went all out and sewed their own green Elf hats, complete with bells. Everyone’s hats looked amazing, and the Christmas cheer could be felt all throughout the Christmas Party.
The Party itself was loads of fun as well! Each class performed a rendition of their favorite Christmas songs, with some classes doing amazing dances while other’s showed off their ability to play musical instruments. Afterwards, our students were divided into four separate teams and we all played an amazing game of “Flip-the-Cards”. Everyone tried their best, and we saw some amazing teamwork between our students. It was a very fun game!
For our Grand Finale, all the students were seated while listening to our teachers read Christmas stories, unaware that a special guest has arrived. Who is our special guest, you ask? None other, that the amazing Santa Clause, of course! He’d made a special trip, all the way from the North Pole, to visit all the good children here at Sunrise Kids. He was even kind enough to bring presents for all the children (and our teachers). The excitement and Christmas cheer was amazing, and all of the students were very excited to meet Santa Clause. We are so glad to see that our students had such a fun time this year, and we look forward to even more amazing days in the future! Merry Christmas everyone!
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Birds of a feather, flock together!
Our students are working so hard!
Don’t forget the beard!
So many cute Santa Clauses!
Painting is always so much fun!
Behold! Our Christmas Trees!
Learning to sew is a good skill!
Can’t you see, I’m busy?
Some of our silly little “elves”
ALOT of our silly little (and some big) elves!
Learning to share is a great thing.
All work and no play….
So silly!
We are amazing!
You know you want to wear them, too!
Showing off our hats.
Our might Reindeer class!
The elves are ready for the party!
The Santas are ready for the party as well!
This must be an exciting story!
Are you having fun? YES!
Preparing to show our skills with pianica.
We are ready to sing “Winter Wonderland”.
Do you know “Deck the Halls”?
We cant sing without my hat!
Making sure we have our snowmen hats on for the perfomance.
Red team is ready to play “Flip the Cards”!
Pink team is ready to win at “Flip the Cards”!
Orange team is ready to crush their rivals, the pink team!
Red vs Blue in “Flip the Cards”.
Blue team won the round!
Time for Round 2!
A pretty close match between the Pink team and Orange team.
They are loving the story so much, they didn’t notice who walked in.
It’s Santa Clause!!
He came to see us!
Santa’s reindeer looks familiar…
Questions for Santa!
I have a question too!
He brought us presents!
So much joy in that smile!
I see two Santas!
They could be twins.
Matching outfits.
Thank you for the presents!
Santa and a little reindeer.
Make that TWO reindeers.
I’m so happy!
Thank You Santa Clause!
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We hope everyone had an amazing Christmas, and we hope you all have an even more amazing New Year! A special thanks to Santa Clause for coming to visit us, and even more special thanks to our students, who practiced so hard, for the Christmas Party’s Musical Performance. You all did amazingly well!
Everyone at Sunrise wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Be sure to stay warm, and we look forward to seeing everyone next year!
