Sunday, December 16, 2012

Final Week Gingerbread Unit!

What happens when you put a Gingerbread Cookie in water?

                                           Gingerbread play-dough mats. Lots of creativity!

Measuring with gingerbread men.
                                                          Drawing our favorite Gingerbread Story.

Baking Gingerbread Cookies with Mr. Acorn and the grade 9 students!

Cutting out and cooking the cookies!

Using our sense of smell to smell the spices used to make the cookies!

Show and Share with the parents.  The children did an awesome job!

Following the clues to find our long lost gingerbread cookies!

Munch, munch as quick as you can. We finally found our Gingerbread men!

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Gingerbread Unit Week 3

Gingerbread  Sight Words - clipboard cruising!

Matching upper and lowercase letters!

Some games we have enjoyed playing!

Our Gingerbread Man to decorate the gym for the Concert.

Beautiful Block Structure!

5 Senses Gingerbread Men

The hallway tree is beginning to look festive!

Muffin Tin Counting!  Roll the dice place that number of counters in the tin,

We saved milk cartons and made our own Gingerbread Houses!

The finished Gingerbread Houses!

More 5 Senses Gingerbread Men!

The "Must Do" table we made out own gingerbread decorations!

Our completed Gingerbread house!

Acting out the story

More acting out the story!

Working on a Gingerbread House!

Results of our first bite graph!

Venn diagram to compare The Gingerbread Girl and The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Gingerbread Unit Week #2

Read, Write and Build Sight words!

Stage 1 of our Gingerbread House!

Creativity at work!

Decorate with fruit loops, record the number of each color.  Show your work and then eat the fruit loops!


Decorate and then take a bite.  Which part did you eat first?

Match the fingerprints to discover who stole the cookies from the cookie jar!

Our new Gingerbread Family puzzle!
Teamwork!


Gingerbread ABC Poem

Gingerbread Man books we have compared.

Fiona brought in cookies.  The children decorated them and ate them for dessert!  Thank you Fiona!

Recording for our first bite graph.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Gingerbread Unit - Week #1

Our first mystery reader.  Cst. Morrison has totally captured the children's attention.
                                               
We are ready for the Gingerbread Man Unit. The Gingerbread Girl and Boy went missing!



As we read each story we compare characters, setting, problem and solution.  We discovered each story so far has a little old man and woman, a gingerbread and a fox!  They also have some different characters

First we build our pattern.  Then we describe our pattern and  make it with paper Gingerbread paper people.

Which sight word is that Gingerbread Man hidden under?

Making our own Gingerbread character to decorate the door!

Exploring our 5 Senses!  Describe and write about Gumdrops.   They smell yummy and taste delicious!

The Gingerbread house in the hallway is now all decorated!

Kindergarten A is recording their stories in the windows. We helped decorate the house.

Gingerbread smelling playdough.  The children requested cookie sheets.  I love the creativity!

The children cooperated to put the Gingerbread  house that Vienna brought in together. Thank You, Vienna!

Put the sentences back together.  Count the words in the sentences.

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