Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Gingerbread Unit Dec1-5

No School on December 4- Teacher conferences
-We will starting a unit on gingerbread.  We will be reading multiple versions of stories related to the tale of the gingerbread man.  
-We will also be having a family celebration in the month of December. I will be sending home a -notice and posting more information the first week we come back to school.  
-Gingerbread Homework- I will be sending "homework" next week as well.  Please have fun with you child with the at home math activity.  (Gingerbread Measuring)
-NO School on December 5 (Parent Teacher Conference Day)
- We also have an elf named Holly who will be visiting us in the month of December.  Holly be hiding in our classroom and keeping an eye on all of us.

Books this week
Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Boy

Small Groups
-Math- Gingerbread number book- we will be using 1:1 correspondence to create a number book based on the characters of the Gingerbread Man
-Group Activity- We will be using our "rulers" to find items to measure in the high school.  This is to help give your child ideas and excite them about finding items to measure at home.
-Ordinal Position- We will be incorporating fine motor to reinforce ordinal position (first, second,....)
-Book Browsing- We will be comparing books to see which characters are in the gingerbread man stories and not in the gingerbread stories.  After discussing and looking for evidence in books we will create a graph.

Center
Blocks-Blocks
Sensory Table-Snow (aka popcorn from boxes)
Dramatic Play-  Gingerbread Bakery
Library- A variety of books about gingerbread
Art Table-Painting with gingerbread cookie cutters
Easel- Water Colors
Science Table
Puzzles- Puzzles
Manipulatives- Ipad apps to make cookies
Writing Center- Writing Letters

Song, Word Play and Letters
Poems- 5 little cookies
Songs- gingerbread songs, Tale of the Gingerbread Musical Songs
Literacy Skills- Letter Sound Activities, Change and Rearrange Words

Handwriting
-We will be working on our  HWT books (We are working on Big and Little Line Letters like E,F,T,L)

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