December 2025: Celebrate!
Every child deserves a childhood full of wonder, laughter, joy, excitement, exploration, safety, and love.
At SimpleLife Preschool, we encourage the sharing and exploration of celebrations. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a celebration can be defined as, “a special social event, such as a party, when you celebrate something”. During our circle time activities this month we have been exploring the way communities celebrate the changing of the season and the light. SimpleLife School offers unique opportunities to learn about and experience different ways to celebrate. We honor the fall season and time of showing gratitude with our “Thankful Feast” and family walk in November. In December, we move into a time with less daylight during the winter months. This provides an opportunity for us to discuss different cultural celebrations. Teachers help students to create lanterns and go on an indoor “lantern walk” to share in the celebration of light as a symbol of love and peace. We appreciate the opportunities to provide the children with rich and meaningful experiences to connect to seasonal rhythms and celebrations. We wish all of our SimpleLife students and families light and love during this special time of year.
- Miss Missy
Miss Sushi
Art Exploration:
This month, the children had a wonderful time exploring creativity through three exciting art projects! We began with wet-on-wet watercolor painting, where we first soaked their paper in water then instead of using paintbrushes we used droppers to add liquid watercolor and let them do all the work, delighting in watching the colors spread and blend across the page. Once the paintings dried, they added a personal touch by drawing family portraits, creating meaningful artwork inspired by the people they love. Our final project, “Light on Dark” still lifes, introduced the children to contrast and detail as they drew objects on dark paper using chalk, shaded carefully, and used erasers to add highlights and fine details. These projects encouraged creativity, fine motor skills, and artistic confidence!
- Miss Mallorie
The winter celebration is highly anticipated, and everyone loves to get involved and participate! From creating beautiful handmade ceramic bowls to be used as gifts, to cutting out and decorating gingerbread cookies, there is something fun for everyone. The children especially get excited during this time of year. Throughout the month, we talked a lot about family traditions, teaching the children that people may celebrate this time of year differently than we do. It’s been so interesting to hear about both our differences and our similarities—even among the teachers, who each celebrate in their own way.
The children had so much fun making dancing ribbons, jingle bells, colorful lanterns, cutting snowflakes to be used as decorations, and wrapping presents. What a wonderful time of year!
- Miss Annie