The Turtles @ AFS: Thinking about Giving

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Thinking about Giving

The holidays are a time when people give gifts, and so we decided to make gifts for our families and friends. We love baking, and so we decided to do a graph to chose our project. It turned out that cookies were such a popular choice, we had to add more paper!

Choice Time was busy with a new flubber activity: writing!

Using markers, we made all kinds of designs on the flubber, then watched it as we stretched and cut it.

We also glittered up our ornaments for the Winterfest celebration on Thursday. Winterfest is a school-wide gathering of all the students for songs, stories, and celebration of the many different winter holidays. Each division of the school is responsible for a different part of the celebration, and the early childhood children will decorate a Christmas tree for the school.