Run! Run! As Fast As You Can!

Run! Run! As fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man! If you were a fly on the wall in our classroom, this is a line you would have heard MANY times throughout the last week. To celebrate the conclusion of November and the beginning of December, we had a Gingerbread Theme Week! Who knew there were so many things you could do with gingerbread? All four kindergarten classes spent all week discussing all things gingerbread, but each class put their own twist on the activities.

Of course for our read alouds, every story was about a gingerbread. Our classes explored the similarities and differences of each story. Many of the stories had the same refrain, but a few of them had different unexpected ones! A favorite was the refrain from "The Gingerbread Cowboy", which always began with "Giddy Up! Giddy Up!". Too cute! The students completed lots of story maps and text-to-text worksheets for comprehension. Mrs. Hoffman's group made an adorable jar and wrote about each story they read. They did an AMAZING job!!

The kiddos completed Gingerbread Glyphs this week as well. I love being able to learn different things about each child through glyphs :) Check out Mrs. Williams gigantic gingerbread!!!!

 Next week has potential to be the best week EVER. It is Miss DeWitt's personal favorite movie and the kindergarten teachers have lots of fun things up their sleeves! I'll give you a hint... he's mean and green. Can you guess the theme?!