'Tis The Season

We are really enjoying this special season in Kindergarten. Our learning has taken on a "holiday" style.  

 We had a special delivery from the North Pole on Monday. Santa sent us an elf to help us learn to think of others.  The elf is bringing us a message everyday with ideas of how we can share random acts of kindness.

We named our elf  Happy.  

 Happy showed up in our tree on Tuesday and on Wednesday he brought us our sight words.

 On Thursday Happy had fun with our elmo.  Friday was gingerbread day and we found him right in the middle of our candy!

 We are enjoying holiday themed math and literacy stations.

We wrote a letter to Santa and told him what was on our wish list.

We read lots of gingerbread books this week.  We compared the characters, setting and endings of the stories.  We also did a little gingerbread writing.

  The students did a GREAT job with their gingerbread men in disguise projects. Can you guess what these cookies are?

  A monkey and snowman.

 An elf and the Hulk.

  Heath disguised his to look like him.

Gingerbread day was so much fun!  Thank you to all the parents who attended and to everyone who sent in supplies.

I have the best job ever!

Thankful

  I am thankful for such a great group of students!  I hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving.

 Hard at work during math centers.

 We earned all of the pieces to our scarecrow for good behavior.  We celebrated with brownies. 

(Idea from The Kindergals TPT unit.)

We read Stone Soup by Marcia Brown and made some soup ourselves. Thank you for sending in the supplies.

 We learned about now and then.  

Drew and Heath built the "Mayflower" during indoor recess. 

  What a cute bunch of Indians and Pilgrims.

  Heath was the lucky one who found the stone in his bowl of soup.

Our Feast.

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A "Short" Snapshot of our Week

This will be a short post for two reasons. First of all my computer crashed this week and I lost most of the pictures I had taken. (insert sad face)  My new goal is to back-up my computer OFTEN! The second reason this is a short post can be summed up in two words. SNOW DAY!

  We are learning all about the meaning of Thanksgiving.  We discussed how it would have felt to be on the Mayflower. We all agreed that we would not want to be on that crowded ship.

We all discussed the one item we would take with us on the Mayflower if we were on that voyage.

Hannah wanted to take  her bed.

  Landon wanted to take a penny.

We worked hard on making tally marks this week.

I have been reading this book out loud to the children.  They love Junie B.  We will be starting the second book this coming week.

Don't forget about our school food drive.  Kindergarten is collecting health and beauty items. We are keeping track of our donations with tally marks.

We will be making our Stone Soup on Friday.  All soup items are due by Wednesday.  Thanks for your help!