He's Making a List and Checking it Twice

Christmas time is officially here! My most favorite time of the whole year! I love listening to the Christmas music, decorating the Christmas tree and seeing all the houses lit up with white, green, and red. There is just such happiness and joy in the air. I love to see people being kind and generous to one another. The Christmas spirit is even pouring into my classroom. My kiddos love to sing Christmas music and countdown how many days till Christmas. We have been celebrating the holidays and getting into the Christmas cheer.

This past week at school our theme was The Gingerbread Man :)

Math:

I labeled each Gingerbread Man with a number 1-10 and had the students take turns putting them in order.

 

 After reading the book The Gingerbread Boy, we graphed how many times the characters in the story were mentioned. 

 

I called out a number, and they had to put that number of buttons on The Gingerbread Man

I had the students put The Gingerbread Men in order from smallest to largest and vice versa. Then we did the same thing with blocks.

  First the kids laid by The Gingerbread Man to see if they were taller or shorter. Next, they measured how many Gingerbread Men tall they were.

 

 

Language and Literacy:

We read the story The Gingerbread Man and then acted in out.

 

After making a batch of Gingerbread cookies, we realized that they all ran away! So we had to go on a Gingerbread hunt to find them.

 

Finally we found them! Then we got to decorate them :)

 

and then ATE them!!

 

Science:

Ms. Carla, my assistant, did an experiment with the students. First she poured water on a napkin to see if the water would seep through, then she used a washcloth and lastly a diaper. We talked about absorption. Then we took apart the diaper to see why the water absorbed. They thought this was gross but LOVED every minute of it.

 

 

 

What happens to a bottle of water when you drop a red marker inside? We observed over two days what happened.

 

Small Groups:

We sowed up Gingerbread Men

 

 

Made Gingerbread Ornaments

1 cup of applesauce

1 cup of cinnimon

It's SUPER easy. Just make sure you let it dry for several days.

 

The students decorated Gingerbread Men. I will post later what I did with the finished products!

 

Extra:

After much consideration we decided on the name Ellie :)

 

One of my students touch Ellie the Elf. This is how she reacted....

 

Countdown to Christmas. Everyday we trim a number off of Santa's beard.

 

I will be posting a picture of my bulletin board and what we did with our decorated Gingerbread Men, so stay tuned!