Dear Families,

We have some catching up to do!  For the month of December, we are in our Nursery Rhymes/Fairy Tales unit.  During story time, we are reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and The Gingerbread Man.



This week for Arts&Crafts, we painted our three little pigs and made houses for them.  Each friend got to choose which house they wanted to paint, and we had lots of fun feeling the straw, sticks, and "bricks" (legos).

Last week we had some extra special visitors come for show and tell!  Some elves came down from the North Pole to visit the Barnyard Buddies.  The elves are watching all of our good behavior, and is reporting back to Santa at night.  Scout the Elf is here for Vraj, Buddy the Elf is here for Ryan, and Jolly the Elf is here for Josh.  These elves are very silly, and were caught doing some funny things this week.  One day we caught the elves taking naps with the kids!  Another day we found the elves sitting in the kids' wheelchairs!  We can't wait to see what these silly elves do next week...

We also had a special activity on Wednesday,  The Busy Bees came to visit us during Sensory Pool time!  We played in some holiday tinsel, and had bells, elves, toy snowmen, and a Christmas tree in our pool.  We had a blast!

Here are some more fun pictures from the past few weeks!

-The Barnyard Buddies