Week 15 Letter Nn, sound /n/, star word 'like', and GINGERBREAD!

As you probably heard, our 11 year old Samoyed, Pippin, passed away last weekend.

Yes, I  have had some tears, but also laughs at remembering his craziness!

Click below for a fun link if you wish to see his crazy life...

Pipipin's Tribute: A Funny, Furry, Photobomber...RIP, my friend!

Not much time for sadness THIS week...my FAVORITE week of the whole year....GINGERBREAD WEEK!!!!
We began with new morning challenges:
Gingerbread number/object match...

Gingerbread ABC order...

Gingerbread numeric order...

Our morning message even looked like gingerbread...mmmm!

Monday afternoon we created these HUGE GINGERBREAD PEOPLE!  We will be decorating the gym with them...

Page down for pics of the completed and beautiful gingerbread people hanging up!

The Christmas Bake Shoppe is still a hot item at choice time...

Blocks and building are fun, too!

Mrs. Sauers works with us every afternoon... I usually give her fun, creative activities that require small groups to be successful!

Here are the completed snowpeople she worked on last week with the kiddos...adorable!

A NEW play area...the GINGERBREAD village!

Are ready for this?  On Tuesday we actually MADE gingerbread cookies right in our classroom!
MMMMM...the aroma was delightful!

All that's left is the dishes and waiting....

Here is a cute, new poem...
ask your child to read it to you!

They can also tell you 
"Where is the /n/ sound?"

Here is another team ready to mix and shape...

and the final team...

Now for the baking....

I guess she's pretty happy to make cookies!

Tuesday's centers included:
Decorating and eating our cookies...

~an family dice roll...

Gingerbread House Counting...

Gingerbread Cookie Addition (coming home in a lucky duck book soon)

More cookie decorating pics...

We finally got to play with the gingerbread village!

Wednesday's seat work included creating a small gingerbread person...cuties!

We displayed them on the board....

page down to see what became of them...

Here are a few more family projects:

Wednesday afternoon we created these wonderful gingerbread houses!

Thursday morning we had new morning challenges and a new SEATING ARRANGEMENT!

This is more gingerbread numeric order...

Gingerbread sentence building...

and finally gingerbread abc-ABC match...

Remember those adorable small gingerbreads?
Well, they all went missing and we had to find them!

They really are too cute!
We sealed them in a bag for the afternoon's centers!

Another family project!

Thursday's centers included :
GINGERBREAD PLAYDO...yes the aroma was splendid!

What yummy creations!

Gingerbread friends 
(using those little run-a-way gingerbreads!)

Gingerbread beginning sounds...

Puzzle Gingerbread House teamwork!

Here are some readers!

cookie matching day...

Here's our gingerbread house display...

Look how big our igloo is!
Keep sending in those milk jugs!

We created these beauties in small groups this week...

Cookie word matching game at choice time:

Our big gingies are adorable!

Great reads from this week...

And now for the week of December 15-19

Reading: Letter Aa, short a, star words 'my' and 'like'

Math: comparing numbers to 10 and intro to Geometry

Theme: Christmas!

Social Studies: Family History

Science: What can we find out about the Earth's water?

BIG NEWS!

Our Winter concert is Thursday at 1:30. 

There is no evening concert for K.

We will have a switch-a-roo day on Wednesday as we create your Christmas surprises.  

SHHHH!  Don't ask, we won't tell!

Friday afternoon we will assess for midquarter skills.

Be looking for midquarter reports coming home soon!