Pictures from Today

I'm just uploading a few fun pictures of the activities today. Enjoy!

Tea and snack with a gingerbread man movie. 

Have you seen them?

We've been looking and looking but they are so sneaky! Do you want to have a sneak peak into our gingerbread unit? Here you go!

This is the book we are going to "research" tomorrow to see if we notice what might make the gingerbread critters feel safe and return to.

This is the project that we will be making if our research discovers that a gingerbread critter might feel safest at home.

We received a note in class from our critters. They asked us to sound out words and write them. It turns out that their 12th favorite word is our name!

This is a picture of "snow" writing. We write letters in paint to create painted paper for a project in January. It's helpful for seeing that you need your whole body to create a letter and not just your finger tips. Did you know it takes your whole arm and shoulder to make your writing happen? 

Here is our character study of gingerbread kids in the hallway.

This is our setting study. Note the blue sky and supporting characters in the background. They were very detailed in what needed to be in the setting. There are schools and pig farms to help out the gingerbread critters.

This is a poster of the title, author, illustrator, setting, and characters in the book "The Gingerbread Cowboy."

Today we were sequencing the events in "The Gingerbread Girl." Some worked alone...

And some worked together.

Gingerbread Creatures

Oh my goodness, what a week!

We've read many books about gingerbread people and compared their stories. We are learning about setting, titles, author and illustrators, and characters. We are predicting the new gingerbread endings. We also made gingerbread creatures (not to eat) to decorate and take home. It was quite the experience having twenty-four five year olds mix up a bowl of cinnamon and applesauce to create the dough. Here is what it looked like before they went into the oven...

This morning when I came in to check our gingerbread buddies, they were missing! We couldn't find them anywhere! They left some clues though and we went in search of them.

We will keep reading more books to get some more ideas of how to catch the sneaky gingerbread critters. Hopefully they will be back in time for break!

From the library:

Ms. Terra is having a great promotion in the library right now. I would love the Naruto poster or the Blazer poster myself, but I bet you and your kiddo would enjoy this great reading treat:

Read and enter for your chance to win a POSTER!!

Our Win a Poster reading incentive is going on now until December 19. The rules are simple, read a book, get a ticket, enter to win the poster of your choice.  Of course, if you read to your student that counts!  Students can receive their tickets during their library time or recess. 

Kindergarten is having a comprehensive literacy unit of study? What on earth does that mean?

What are we doing in kindergarten? We are having a comprehensive literacy unit of study. We are looking at a variety of books based on the gingerbread man story and comparing them. We will do sequencing, counting, reading, writing, and a whole bunch of other learning this month.  We will play games and even get to make our very own “gingerbread” person. Let’s hope that the one we make won’t run away like the one in the story does!