Gingerbread, gingerbread, gingerbread...

We have been busy creating with gingerbread play dough and making gingerbread people.  We have read many, many versions of The Gingerbread Man and are having fun comparing and contrasting the stories.  We enjoyed some gingerbread cookies that Zac's Nina sent to us in our gingerbread mystery bag.  Last Friday, we sampled gingerbread boy and girl cookies that our very own cooking friends made for us.  Most of us really liked them!  We even have gingerbread scented hand sanitizer!!!!  Letter detectives have been searching our room for words that begin with the same letters as in the word GINGERBREAD.  We have also been word detectives and have found small words inside of the word GINGERBREAD.  Some words are: grin, red, bed, read, bad, a, I, in, ring, bring, and more!  We worked on our fine motor by cutting out gingerbread people, hole punched them and then laced them!  That was a lot of work!  We are keeping VERY busy in here so we can all stay out of trouble:)

A Gingerbread Masterpiece!

Max brought in the gingerbread house that he made with his family for all of us to see.  He said that it is a tradition in his family to make a gingerbread house each December.  We were so excited to get a closer look at a real gingerbread house since we have been reading so many books about gingerbread!  We were thankful that he shared his gingerbread creation with us today:)

Birthday Fun!

I LOVE my Birthday Book!  I would like to extend a BIG thank you to all of you for such a wonderful surprise!  I enjoyed reading each page to my Kindergarten friends and seeing the pride in each child's face as I read his or her special page to the class.  Thank you for all of your kind birthday wishes!  We enjoyed root beer floats and A LOT of counting on Monday:)

Friday Cooking

A BIG thank you goes to Olivia's mom and dad for coming to our classroom this past Friday for cooking.  Our cooking friends made yummy gingerbread cookies for all of us to enjoy:)  We LOVE our cooking volunteers!

Library is tomorrow!

Please be sure to return your library book tomorrow if you have not already done so!  We will be going to library at 12:30 on Thursday.  If any parent is able to join us to help the children choose his/her book or assist with book check-out, please email me. 
Thank you:)

Gingerbread Play Dough FUN!

A gingerbread python! 

 

 Cookie cutter creations!

The children have been busy at work making all kinds of goodies using our gingerbread play dough.  Thank you to all of the parents who made a batch of play dough for our classroom.  The children are really loving it.  They are also trying hard to remember that it is play dough and not cookie dough because it smells good enough to want to eat it!

Zero Celebrated Day 60 with us!

Once again, we enjoyed a visit from Zero the Hero on Monday.  

He helped us celebrate our 60th day of school!