A Holiday Celebration

In the morning, we went to our school's sing-a-long celebration. In the afternoon, we had a small, holiday party. We enjoyed cookies and chocolate milk. Also, we had delicious plums from our school's fresh fruit and vegetables program. We watched the classic cartoon, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." It was a lot of fun!

Happy Holidays!

Here's two pictures of our class in front of our decorated Christmas tree:

A Gingerbread Graph

Today, we read two gingerbread books: "Gingerbread Friends" and "The Gingerbread Pirates." Also, we made a graph of our favorite gingerbread books. The students had to choose which gingerbread book was their favorite:
Gingerbread Boy
Gingerbread Girl
Gingerbread Baby
Gingerbread Cowboy
We ended up having a tie between "The Gingerbread Girl" and "The Gingerbread Cowboy."

We Made Gingerbread Cookies And.........

Today, we made gingerbread cookies. The students used a cookie cutter to make their gingerbread cookie. Then, they used M&Ms and sprinkles to decorate their cookies. We baked them and left them in our room to cool, while we went to lunch and library. When we came back, they were gone! Those tricky gingerbread cookies left a clue: a picture of a piano. We knew that meant they were headed to the music room. In the music room, we found another clue: a picture of a basketball. We headed to the gym and found an X, so we went to the Explorations room. Guess what? Our gingerbread cookies were in there! We kept a tight hold on them, until we got back to our room. Then, we ate those gingerbread cookies. It was deliciously fun! In the afternoon, we read the story, "The Gingerbread Baby." Also, volunteers from United Way came to share a story called, "Penguins, Penguins Everywhere. Then, they were nice enough to give each student that very same book. We were very thankful. :-)

Making and decorating the gingerbread cookies











Here are decorated cookies:


Eating our gingerbread cookies



Reading our new books from United Way

A Gingerbread Book

Today, we read the book, "The Gingerbread Cowboy." Then, we made a gingerbread class book. Each student wrote about the animal their gingerbread "person" would run away from. Next, they illustrated their page. Then, they got to put glitter on their gingerbread "person." It really added a nice touch to our gingerbread book. The book is now in our reading center. We also played the game, roll-a-gingerbread man, in math. Plus, we hung our gingerbread ornaments on our tree. We love our Christmas tree!

Here is the cover of our book:

Here are a few pages from the book:
"bird"

"fox"

"baby"

"coyote"

"dog"

"shark"

Here is our Christmas tree:

Happy 6th Birthday L!

Gingerbread Ornaments

Today, we read the story, "The Gingerbread Girl." Then, we made gingerbread ornaments to hang on our Christmas tree. They turned out great!

Making the ornaments




Here they are holding up their finished ornaments: