December 15 - 23

We spread some Christmas Cheer by visiting Miscouche Villa with Ms. Gogan's class and Ms. Mac!

The Gingerbread Man arrived in class one day and then disappeared only leaving a note behind.  He returned again on Monday December 22 and was shared by everyone in the class.  Delicious!

Making our own Gingerbread Man Art!

Clipboard cruising with the sight words on gingerbread men!

Sight words are hidden in the picture.  Use a magnifying glass to find and record the words!

Using playdough add details to the pictures!

Baking, decorating and finally eating Gingerbread cookies with Mr. Acorn's home economics class!

We treated our grade 4 book, computer and math buddies with gingerbread cookies.  All that needed to be done was to decorate and eat the cookies!

Painting some salt dough Christmas ornaments!

Roll the dice color that number on your gingerbread man.

Reading and measuring on the chart poems!

Arranging the gingerbread man numbers in proper sequence.

Working together on the Gingerbread Man Family puzzle!

Roll the dice, place that number of items in the tin.  Record on your sheet - which number raced to the top?

The gift wrapping station was used each and everyday!  Thank you so much for all the items that you sent it.

Mr. Acorn's class helped the children make your tea light ornaments.  We shut off the light and turned them all on.  We thought they were very pretty!

The children were quite surprised to see they could turn 3 hearts into a Christmas tree decoration!

How many Gingerbread men long is the kleenex box?

More counting and recording!

Sequence all the gingerbread families by size!

What a wonderful bridge!

We had our very own Santa's Little Helper in the class!

Mr. MacDonald came to visit and read a Christmas story!

We made cards and an ornament for some special people in the school.  We delivered and sang We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

We had a sing song on the last day of school.  Mr. Doran brought a guitar for me as well. The children did an awesome job of singing.  We invited grade 1, 2, and grade 4 to our sing song.

To end the sing song Ms. Johnson read A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas to the group!

December 1 - 12

Asking questions and tallying the answers.  ex:  Do you have a cat?

Pick a letter card say it's name or have your friends help you with it's name.  If you pick a surprise card you may need to sing a song!

Put the number of buttons on Pete's coat that is on the card.

Putting sentences together by looking at the sentence strips and then putting the words in order.

Pete the cat puzzle.

Count the items and clip a clothespin on the number.

Sequence the cats from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest.

Match the color of Pete's shoes!

Using buttons how many ways can you sort them? Ex;  by color, shape, size, number of button holes, etc

Using a magnifying glass find the hidden words and record them on the recording sheet.

Roll the dice and move your car that many spaces.  Which car will race to the end?

More button sorting.

Cali is our new star of the week!

The Gingerbread Man is Everywhere!

Create your own gingerbread man!

Use playdough add detail to the gingerbread man!

Each day we cut a slice off of Santa's beard to see how many days are left until Christmas!

Sequence the families by size.

Clipboard cruising find the words written on Gingerbread men!

We changed the Lego and now we  build with the bridges, boats and cannons we have discovered!

Roll the dice and color that number on the gingerbread man!

The new Gingerbread Man Family Puzzle.

Tanner getting ready to create his own Gingerbread Man!

Do you have a cat?

Josh's finished Gingerbread Man!

Using ten frames to count out items!

Measuring - this Pete the Cat book is 4 gingerbread men wide.

Jordan decorating our class tree. The children have decorated it many times!

Putting the gingerbread man number cards in order from 0-20.

Our Christmas Class Photo!

 Our Christmas Class Photo including the teachers!

Pete the Cat aka: Mr. Lynch dropped in to visit and dance with the class.  Thank you Mr. Lynch!

Some Show and Tell highlights!

The Christmas Concert, you children did a fantastic job!  Your beautiful ornaments looked great!

Our hallway tree is beginning to look like Christmas!