Wow, it's been a while!
Sorry for the delay everyone. With meetings happening on Fridays, I've been struggling to update the blog on a weekly basis.
This past week we started out Gingerbread Man unit. We have been reading lots of different versions of the "Gingerbread Man" and talking about how each book is the same or different from the others we've read. The kids really like picking up on the differences!
We even made our own "gingerbread man" stories which went home this week. The childred chose a person, animal, monster, etc. that their gingerbread man would run away from and then drew an accompanying picture. Their ideas were hysterical and their pictures were phenomenal!
Here's some examples of who the gingerbread man was running away from...
a monster
an alien
a fox
a pig
a cow
a robot
someone even said ... "me!" which I thought was quite clever!
We also played a gingerbread man themed dice game which the students have been playing for a couple of weeks. It's great to see them starting to yell out the number on the dice without even having to count the dots (that's what we want to see!). Students had to roll the dice, count the dots, then place the correct number of chips onto the corresponding number of gingerbread men. It's a game the kids really enjoy!
We made a little surprise for our families this week during our art project time. The kids are very excited to give you a present this coming week!
We also constructed paper gingerbread houses this week. Kids had a blast gluing on sequins, buttons, pom poms, and painting white snow. It got us thinking about making our real gingerbread houses next week!
Next week we will read a wonderful book by Jan Brett called "The Gingerbread Baby". I have lots of characters printed from the book, so we will have fun acting out the book as we read!
Miss Molly's last day will be Tuesday, December 17th.
December 20th will be my last day with the kiddos and as you come back from vacation, Miss Kate and Miss Mary will be ready to lead our class!
Thanks for reading!
Aleshia Reid
