Gingerbread

We started off the holiday season with some Gingerbread themed activities. 

Here we practiced syllables. 

We decorated a tree!

We explored gingerbread with our 5 senses. Some of us loved it so much that I didn't get a chance to take a picture of them with it ;)

We also talked about measuring from top to bottom and practiced one to one counting. Here we are measuring our Gingerbread Man and then comparing ourselves to him!

 We just started talking about identifying a number that is great than, less than or equal to another number. Our gingerbread's height was in the middle and we used a number line to decide if our height was more or less or the same!!

We also discussed the Beginning, Middle and Ending parts of a story. We read as many gingerbread stories as we could get our hands on and we compared the endings and then wrote our own ending! Check out the cookie jar endings packet that went home on Friday. (We also learned a new word-refrain-ask them about it ;)

Reading our Writing

Over the last month, we have been working on writing personal narratives. This was pretty tough for some of the kiddos so they were so excited to finish a story so they could read it to their classmates. Look for some writing samples and a rubric in their communication folders soon.

Re-telling Party

Our first re-telling party went very well! The kiddos were great performers and a wonderful audience. I hope that you enjoyed working on this with your student because they were SO excited to show off their work and the pride they had was just glowing! Practicing speaking and getting in front of others can be a scary thing so this is a safe and comfortable setting for students to begin to develop those skills.

And then to end our week we had pizza for lunch! The kids were so exited about the pizza!! Thank you for helping them to reach their reading goal! Keep filling out those pizza charts! I have plenty of free personal pan pizza coupons! We will have a new class incentive goal after Christmas.