HAPPY New Year!

Happy 2014!  I hope you all had a restful and joyful break.  Within a few days, we will be back to school!  Speaking of school, here are some pictures of our Gingerbread activities from December:

Re-telling The Gingerbread Man with the book and story props during Literacy Work Stations

Measuring Gingerbread with different non-standard units (unifix cubes, paper clips, hexagons, pennies)

Reading in the Library

Thanks volunteers!

Decorating COOKIES!

Math Centers

Roll a Gingerbread Man

Depending on what students roll with a die, 

they draw different parts of the Gingerbread Man until complete!

Shared Writing

Sight Word Game

Yum!

Measuring

So detailed!

Take a big bite!

Measuring

After we all decorated our cookies, we got together and took 1 bite of the cookie.  Then I asked students to look at their cookie to see what part they bit first.  We graphed the results!

We sure had a lot of fun!

Thank you to all of the volunteers and to the families who donated supplies for the activities!

Before we left for break, we also learned how to say and write our last names.

Just as your child has memorized how to read and write his/her first name, your child should also be able to do the same with his/her last name by the end of the Kindergarten.  Please help your child practice writing his/her first and last name (with a space in between) at home often.  This is a great thing to do before your child returns to school on Monday.  See you then!