December 5 – December 9
It is hard to believe we are starting Bell Week – December is here.
As we start the ‘holiday season’ (even though the stores have been in holiday mode since Halloween or before!) we will be staying “the same” at preschool. We will start singing our bell songs but Jingle Bells will be the only ‘holiday’ song we sing. It is nice for the children to know that preschool will be the same as always – familiar and what they expect. It may be comforting for you, as well, to know we will be low key and without a lot holiday hubbub going on. We will switch from gobble- gobble to ring-ring and the children will be excited to play with the bells. It is an exciting time of the year and hopefully we can catch some of that excitement while maintaining a calm atmosphere at preschool.
Bell Songs:
Ring, ring, ring your bells
Ring them loud and clear
To tell the children everywhere
That Circle Time is here.
Did you ever ring your bells, your bells, your bells
Did you ever ring your bells over your ______
….under your ______, on your ______, next to your ______
Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow
On a one horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring,
making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Motion Rhyme
Shake, shake, shake and stop
Shake, shake, shake and stop!
Stop, stop, stop and SHAKE!