gingerbread week Dec. 8-12

Our End of the Year Show will be on Thursday December 18 at 11:45  Please come see "The Gingerbread-The Musical"
-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)

- 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.
-We are also enjoys guest readers during this unit

Books this week

Gingerbread Girl
Gingerbread Boy

Small Groups
-Measuring with non-standard units of measure with our gingerbread rulers hunt in the high school
-Gingerbread Rhyming activity
-Gingerbread Sequencing in order from smallest to largest using 6 different sizes
-Gingerbread Tally Game- We will spin a spinner and record which gingerbread man it lands on. We will discuss concepts of more, less, and equal

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)

Holly pretending to be a teacher?

Holly was reading our unit book when we arrived at school. It looks like the action heroes are being very good listeners today. We are hoping they get a high five today. 

Holly wrote back:)

Holly wrote back to us today. It is very exciting. Today she was dressed up like Spider-Man, or should we say Spider-Elf?

Holly has arrived

An elf named Holly has arrived very dramatically in our classroom. We decided to write a letter to her to ask questions?  (Examples-do you like thanksgiving?  Do you like coconuts? Do you like presents?). We delivered it to the office and Sandy was going to send it out in the express mail. We are hoping she will write back to us. 

Go Burlington-at the BHS pep rally!!

Pinata Party Video an Pictures

Our Pinata Party!!

(Video do not always play on phones.

 If you cannot view try on a computer)

We listened to our unit book(Hooray a Pinata) with our stuffed animal friends. 

We had our stuffed animal friends on the playground too.  We have them a ride.

It was a fun day!!

Hooray A Pinata

Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving

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)