WOW! What a fun week we had in KW! We heard LOTS of gingerbread stories, we did several activities with gingerbread men, we went on a hunt for the gingerbread man (we never did find him), we played with gingerbread playdoh, AND we decorated gingerbread cookies. The kids did a great job identifying the characters, setting, problem, and ending of all of the stories and used their familiarity with the story to predict what would happen to the gingerbread man. (although sometimes we were surprised!) I think the students all learned a lot about the structure of stories and will recall the gingerbread man fondly forever!
A big thank you goes out to the families who donated our gingerbread men for us to decorate. Many people offered to help and I am truly grateful. Thank you as well, to the volunteers who came in to help us decorate. I know it was last minute and I am lucky that so many of you were able to come in to help out. The kids had a blast! I hope they enjoyed eating their cookie while reading their new gingerbread man book. I must not forget how cool it was to have two families make gingerbread playdoh for us. The housekeeping center came alive as a bakery this week as the children took turns pretending to cut out cookies with our cookie cutters.
This week we are only in school on Monday and Tuesday. We will do some rhyming activties and continue writers's workshop. On Tuesday afternoon we will have a holiday celebration. I am sure the room will be bubbling with excitment all week! We will resume school on January 5th. I hope you all have a fabulous break and a wonderfully joyous holiday season.
