Thursday, December 20, 2012

Gingerbread

I tired to upload this post last night, but with the power flickering I wasn't very successful!  Happy Snow Day!!!

In KE we spend a lot of time with Gingerbread.  We read many different Gingerbread Stories and compare their story elements.  We made Gingerbread Houses.  Thank you to everyone who donated supplies and thank you to all the parent volunteers that helped us!  Hopefully they all made it home in one piece today!  Here are some pictures from our Gingerbead House making event!


















In the story The Gingerbread Man, he runs away from many characters to avoid getting eaten!  We made our very own Gingerbread Man and put him in the oven to bake.  When we went back to get him out of the oven he had ESCAPED!  He left us clues around the school, and we searched for him.  He ended up in our classroom and we got to enjoy a cookie treat! :)  We were just amazed that he could really run around the school and leave clues for us!





I don't have any pictures of our finished product, but boy he was Yummy!!  I hope everyone is enjoying the Snow Day and hopefully we will have school tomorrow!  Stay safe and warm!
 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Families!

One of my most favorite units to teach in Kindergarten is Families.  We learn how all families are different, but all families have LOVE!  We graph the number of people in our family, learn family words, draw our family, paint our family picture, and learn what makes our family unique.  I wish I would have taken more pictures from our unit because we did some really neat things.  Here are some pictures of us painting our family pictures.  Hopefully all parents enjoyed their pictures and attached poem!  We all LOVE to paint in Kindergarten!!






The students loved sharing about their family.  What they like to eat, what they enjoy doing, what they celebrate, etc.  Thank you to everyone who helped fill out their sheet and sent a picture!  Enjoy your family time this Holiday Season!