December 14th, 2012- More gingerbread fun!

Highlights from the Week:

• Special Theme of the Week: Gingerbread
• Heart Word of the Week: play
• In language arts, we worked on summarizing stories we had read.  We also worked on making sure we use the pictures to help us understand a story better.
• During writing, we wrote our own version of the gingerbread man.  Instead of a runaway gingerbread man, we had a runaway kitten!
• In math, we were introduced to skip counting and what it means to count by 2's.
• To practice math skills, creativity, and problem solving, we made gingerbread houses!
• During our theme time, we continued to read versions of the gingerbread man, but they have become more and more different.  We have had a run away clay boy, pickle, and ice cube!  We talk about how these books are the same as some of the others that we read and how they are different.
• During community centers, we are continuing with our life sized gingerbread house.  This week we are working on the decorations.  Also during community centers, we are continuing to retell the story of the gingerbread man in our dramatic play center.

We really enjoyed making our gingerbread houses!!