We read various versions of the gingerbread story this week. Tuesday we got to make our very own gingerbread boy or girl.

We put them into the oven to bake. When we were ready to eat them, we pulled out the trays and they were GONE!

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man! We chased the gingerbread people all over the school to try to find them. We even got to RUN in the hallway! We finally found them and ate them for a snack. What fun!

The students built fine motor skills this week by punching holes in stockings and sewing them with yarn.
This child is writing a letter to Santa using a greeting card.
We read the book Hansel and Gretel. The snow white dove from the story delivered a path out of the forest with clue cards telling our class how to escape. We followed the pattern cards and tried to get out of the forest without reaching a dead end. The children LOVED this story and game. We are working on making our own board games to take home and play.
Each tree below has a number written on it. The students were to decorate the tree with the appropriate number of ornaments.

We had all kinds of holiday activities this week. One activity we did was write letters to Santa.
The dramatic play center became a Smokey Row Coffee Shop! We had fun writing orders and making "hot cocoa with marshmallows" for our friends.

Different gift bags had ornaments inside. The children guessed how many ornaments were in each bag and then counted them. They compared their guesses with the actual amounts.

Last week our letter person was Mr. B with beautiful buttons! We did lots of B activities. We searched in beans for balls and recorded what we found.
We also read the book The Button Box and then sorted our own button box buttons.
For our transportation unit, we rolled dice, added them together and parked cars in parking spaces that equal the sum of the dice rolled.
In dramatic play we created a van. The first person was the driver and the other friends were tourists.
One of our star centers this week was to sort transportation vehicles by land, air, or water.

We put math shapes onto a pumpkin and created Jack-O-Lantern faces.
Count Dracula! We put on a cape and counted items in a jar and practiced numeral writing.
We used fall creatures to create patterns.
We were teachers this week! We got to write on the big white board to practice numbers!
We are building fine motor skills by using a paper punch and sewing yarn through apples!

We have been learning about apples for Miss A. We each brought an apple from home and weighed a partner's apple to see who had a heavier apple and who had a lighter apple. We also learned about Venn Diagrams by sorting our apples by color.

This week we read The Great Big Turnip. We retold the story by performing a puppet show for our third grade friends. We had a lot of fun retelling the story!

This week we built patterns. Each group had a different material to use. Ask your child which pattern they helped create.

This week we had many fun centers. We put new letters in front of our names and read what our names would be if they started with a different letter. They were very silly!

The boys below with the fancy glasses our reading and writing our "fancy" vocabulary words.

We learned what a keyboard is in computer this week. The children practiced typing their friends' names on a computer keyboard.

Mr. H has horrible hair.

We took Mr. T and his tall teeth to the dentist! We learned how to brush our teeth! It was a great field trip.

We have had a great start to kindergarten!

Welcome to Our Kindergarten Blog

Welcome to our Kindergarten Blog.  I am hoping to post frequent, quick updates of activities and include some pictures of what we are doing on a weekly basis for parents, family, and friends to see.  Please let me know what you think!