Week of November 26-29

Week of November 26-29

 The Gingerbread Man

Letter: O

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I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving Break and enjoyed time with their families. I would like to thank everyone for their contributions to our Thanksgiving feast and for participating with your children in our feast. I think a good time was had by all.

This week we will be doing a variety of activities centered around the story of The Gingerbread Man.  We will read the original story of The Gingerbread Man as well as a newer version called The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. We will retell/re-enact The Gingerbread Baby using props and everyone will get a turn to be a character in the story. We are also going to measure using a gingerbread person as our form of measurement, we will measure how tall we are in gingerbread person measurement and compare it to traditional measurement. We will decorate a gingerbread house with fruit loops and then use the fruit loops to do a sorting and graphing activity. We are going to create and decorate our own gingerbread person.

During the week we will play two learning gingerbread games. One is a version of musical chairs in which the children match their gingerbread color to one that is placed on a chair, in this version everyone remains in as they change and match new colors. We will also play Gingerbread BINGO, matching letters that we have learned so far in the school year as a review. We are going to be making a class book entitled "If I Was Made of Gingerbread.." and then the children will choose what they would be and how they would look. When this book is completed look for it to come home with your child when it is their turn.

This week we will be reading the letters we received about the gingerbread man and where he has been spotted. We will be using map skills to find the different locations the letters have come from. Thank you to everyone to sent in letters, wrote letters or had family and friends send in letters. I think this activity will be intriguing for the children and very exciting when we finally find the Gingerbread Man on Thursday. 

On Tuesday the children will be attending a holiday concert that will be performed by the children in older grades.

Our letter this week is letter O so each class will be making their own variation of an owl.

We will be adding two new friends to our morning class, one will start this week and one will start next week. These new friends' names are Myrrah and Maddie, we are excited to welcome them to our class. One of our friends in the a.m. class will be leaving us shortly, Austin and his family are moving to a new house and will no longer be attending our school system. We are sad to see him go but wish him and his family good luck in their new home.