This week we will continue with our Gingerbread Unit. The children are enjoying the different versions we have read. Our family party is this Friday at 10:30. The children have been practicing the songs we will be performing. You are more than welcome to video tape the performance and/or take pictures of the show.

Books:
The Gingerbread Girl
The Gingerbread Baby
Stop That Pickle
The stinky Cheese Man

Choice Time:
Arts-n-crafts - decorating gingerbread houses and snowflakes
Puzzles and Manipulatives- Shaving Cream
Block Area- IPADS
Rug-Candyland, Don't Break the Ice, floor puzzles
Dramatic Play: Housecorner
Sensory Table -Moon Sand

SLWP:
The Gingerbreads Are Here
7 Gingerbread Cookies in the Bakery Shop
Gingerbread
Going to Kentucky
The Freeze Song

Small Group Activities:
Gingerbread Math Book
Gingerbread Mazes
Gingerbread positional Book
Gingerbread listening activity

School will be closed from December 24-January 1. See everyone on January 2.

Books:

The Gingerbread Man Karen Schmidt

The Gingerbread Boy Paul Galdone

 

SLWP:

Do You Know the Gingerbread Man?

7 Gingerbread Cookies in the Bakery Shop

The Gingerbreads are here, the gingerbreads are there

Gingerbread

 

Small Group Activities:

Lacing and painting gingerbread houses

Sequencing gingerbread from largest to smallest

Decorating gingerbread for a bulletin board

Gingerbread alphabet match

 

Choice Time:

Arts n crafts table: gingerbread puppets

Sensory table: moon sand

Puzzles and Manipulatives; playdough with gingerbread cookie cutters

Dramatic Play: bakery shop

Books: theme related

Rug: IPads and puzzles

This week we will wrap up our Friendship Unit.

Books:

 Matthew and Tilly

Hooray a Piñata

Pumpkin Soup

Small Group Activities:

Piñata Puzzle – The children will put puzzle pieces together to create a piñata

Making a Piñata – The class will make two Piñatas.

Rhyming Book – The children will create a book with rhymes

Alphabet Book – The children will use Bingo Markers to trace letters

Choice Time:

Block Area: Grocery Store

Puzzle and Manipulatives:  Play dough and/or puzzles

Art Area: Crayon resists pictures

Dramatic Play: house

Rug: IPADS and/or board games

Writing Center: Making Grocery Lists/writing letters

Books: Themed related

SLWP:

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

The More We Get Together

Clap Your Hands

Come on and Join In to the Game

Going to Kentucky