What Happened to our Gingerbread Man?

Gingerbread Houses

Making the gingerbread houses is one of my favorite activities to so in school. The kids have so much fun!  I was also having fun using the pic collage app and made a collage of all the wonderful houses that were made.  Enjoy!

Here are the blue class houses:

And here are the red class houses:

A special thank you for everyone who brought in candy to share and also to the fabulous volunteers!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Blue Class Skating

Here is a video from Mrs. V with the kids skating in the gym.  They were so excited and had a great time!

The Gingerbread Man did it again!

We were already to try a taste of the little gingerbread man when we discovered he was missing!

We searched the whole school but could not find him.  My blue class decided to write about what they think happened to the gingerbread man.  We got the writing part of their story done today, on Thursday we will illustrate our story.  I'll post pictures of the story when it's completed.

The Gingerbread Man is loose in our school!

Today we baked a gingerbread man during snack.  When we went to get him, he was missing!

We went around the school to find our gingerbread man.  We talked to Mrs. Agnew in the library, Mrs V. In the gym, Mrs. Bakke in the music room and Peggie in the office.  All of them saw our gingerbread man running around, but no one could catch him!  We returned to our room and we found a surprise!  The gingerbread man didn't want to be eaten, but he did leave a tasty snack for us instead.

Week of December 9-13th

We are getting closer to our winter break, but still have many things to accomplish yet this month!

In the beginning of the we are focusing on the difference between needs and wants.  We read a story about it, we are going to sort pictures on our Smartboard and then we will do a project about needs and wants.

Later this week, or early next week, we will start listening for the ending sound in words.  We will be doing some sorting with pictures that have the same ending sound.

Our 2 activities for math this week are, learning about the Pan Balance, and playing domino concentration.

In writing, we are going to learn about being good sharing partners during sharing time.  We are also still focusing on leaving spaces between our words.

And last, we will continue to read those gingerbread men stories!  We just finished our chart about the 3 stories we read last week.  We used this chart to learn about the diff end settings and characters.  We also picked our favorites at the end.

What's Next

Here are some things we are working on this week.  I am going to try to add our weekly goals, but keep in mind, things get changed around easily here:)

New Words: on, said

Phonics: we are working on reading our friends names and putting our friends names in order

Math: we are staring number stories and beginnings addition and subtraction.  We tell stories and either act out the stories to figure out the answer or draw out the story to figure out the answer.  We are working with numbers up to 10.  

Writing: we are still working on our 4 star pictures and words, but we are also beginning to write whole stories.  Instead of using one page we are using books and working on telling our story across many pages.

Read Alouds: We started our Gingerbread Man stories yesterday.  As we are reading them, we are writing out the characters and setting.  We are using the gingerbread stories to learn setting and characters but also to work on comparing similar stories.