Advice from a 6 year old to his friend "It's okay to be scared, when I was a little kid I got nervous,too!"

Kids are so funny!

I guess 6 is getting up there in years!

Here's more Wonderful Wednesday fun from this week:

The gingerbread play dough is a hit!

Pattern blocks are always fun...

 Cookies are done!

Smartboard Smarties 

 No wonder I can not win the ABC game....the kiddos are always practicing!

Playtime

Another popular area...the writing center

and the painting station

And housekeeping...

Something new this week...the kiddos put on a puppet show!

And we painted glittery trees!

Homeroom kids working on our new puzzle

 Teamwork

 Sentence building in the igloo

Friday's Kindergarten Switch-a-Roo Day...

Here's Mrs. Kalmes' class designing wrapping paper

And painting....shhhhh! It's a surprise!

Our class in Mrs. Pilger's room creating cards and bags

Mrs. Pilger's class designing paper...

 The messy present from our room....

Sorry, I couldn't get to Mrs. Kalmes' room to take pics,

but the kids had a blast making your present!

After the concert on Tuesday, we will send our gifts to you home!

Week of December 12-16

We had a very nice, relaxing yet productive weekend.

We finished putting up Christmas lights (8 sets burned out since taking them down last year...grrrr!)
We put the real tree up in the living room, the teddy bear tree in the dining room, and the gingerbread tree in the kitchen...that along with Lee's moose tree makes 4 and a ton of boxes from the attic!
Pictures uploaded soon....

I finished a photo book on Shutterfly  for John's Dad...it was our Indianapolis RV trip last July.
And Our Christmas card is nearly finished!

We Skyped twice with Shae and Wren...it is amazing to me how quickly 8 month old Wren figured out what the Skype beeps mean...she literally races to the computer to "talk" to her Grandma when she hears the "beep booop beep!"

Sorcha  made a chocolate lava cake in the crock pot...mmmmm!
Fionn made pepperoni bread.
Maeve had to choose 2 of her outdoor "teenage" kitties to be adopted by Noah's family....she's kind of sad as she will miss them,but happy they get to live in a nice, warm shed!

And I know this is going to shock family and friends, but I did NOT take a single pic this weekend!
Here is a pic from last Wednesday when we made our annual stop at Johnson's Christmas House in Winona....Thanks Dan and Claudia for a 20 year tradition! (they are just off Sarnia...before Huff)

This week in Kindergarten:

I will be gone Tuesday along with a handful of other teachers to a Technology Convention in Minneapolis.  Mr. Riebel has great technological plans for our school!  Mrs. Sikkink is our sub.

Reading: Letter Nn, sound for /n/, star words 'my' and 'like'
Math: Winter Math themes, counting, numerals to 20, patterning
Theme: Winter Time!

Please get out those permanent markers and write your family's name on all winter wear!

Here's 2 more family project pics:

and some photos of a fun gingerbread math game:

My Photo Book Indy trip July 2011 for Grandpa

Click here to view this photo book larger

Create a gorgeous, high quality wedding photo album at Shutterfly.com.

Gingerbread Week!!!! My favorite!!!

This is one of my favorite weeks in Kindergarten!

GINGERBREAD WEEK!

This is going to be a LOOOOOONG blog....did I mention I love this week?

Lots of pics!

FIRST OF ALL, here's a favorite link the kids have been using at Learning Centers:

http://sprintsweets.com/

A cute, easy to use gingerbread making page...Have fun!

We began the week by sharing our family projects...

Nice speeches, K Kids!

(yes, they give an intro, body of speech, and conclusion!)

Then a little abc order gingerbread man strips....

Journaling about the gingerbread man....

oh,dear...a close call for the gingerbread woman!

Ha!

Our Wonderful Wednesday was filled with 

Gingerbread projects and several

Christmas boxes....

Great Christmas pattern!

Sorting Christmas items

Signing in gingerbread style

MMMMM....Gingerbread playdo!

Mrs. Sauers was our helper 

Here we are signing a card for

Mr. Saxton's last music class day.

Best of luck!

decorating the kitchen

Adding "frosting" to our gingerbread kids...

Phase 1 completed...

A Little more decorating while they dry...

Phase 2...adding details!

lots and lots of choices...

 Here's the "frosting" recipe:

Equal parts white glue, white tempera paint, and....

shaving cream!

Of course a sprinkling of glitter!!!

 Tatadada!

They are beautiful and unique!

 Here's the little ones we made with

Mrs. Sauers and Mrs. Sobek

 More big ones....

So proud of our creations!

cute center

a fun graph:

We talked about how to describe words:

ADJECTIVES

Here's this week's Morning Challenge:

It's all about teamwork!

 ABC Order

 Numeric order...

 Puzzle Time

(this was Friday's...we wanted you to see the completed puzzle....nice job, kiddos!)

We finally get to "roll" out gingerbread dough,

cut out shapes....

and bake!  

MMMMMMMMMM!

We cooked our creations in

 a roaster....the aroma was delicious!

Finally time to decorate...

And EAT!!!!

Here's a brand new gingerbread math game:

Fun!

Finally, stations with Noah's Mom, Mr.Carrier, and me!

 Here's my felt gingerbread man decorating table...

Here's Chris and her '-at' family projects:

And Mr. Carrier with his sets of cookie

journal page

Here's our finished product!

Too cute!

 We have read many different versions of the folktale

Gingerbread Man!

Here are a few:

     

On Monday we will be making a character map of some of our favorite Gingerbread Boy books!

So, we end this week, smelling faintly of cinnamon and ginger, a little sticky, but oh so glad

to have had these great experiences together!