Christmas Party!!

All I want for Christmas...... 

We used shared writing to help us write what we wanted for Christmas. Then we cut apart the sentences and figured out how to put them back together!

 Then we illustrated them!!

 Reindeer Games!

Santa Math!

Check out that beard!! 

 Gingerbread Houses! 

What FUN we had at our Christmas party!! 

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Gingerbread Man!

Retelling the story of The Gingerbread man!

Gingerbread man "bite graph" 

We all took one bite, then graphed where our bite was taken: on the head, on the leg, or on the arm!

Gingerbread man Position Words:

Above

Below

On top

Next to

Underneath

Behind

Beside

 Finding the word THE hidden in SO many books!! We are becoming readers folks!! I love it!

 Shared writing and reading: 

Abiyoyo

If you have never read the story ABIYOYO by Pete Seeger, you're missing out! It is based on a South African Lullaby, and the kids just love it!

After listening to Pete Seeger sing/tell the story, we discussed the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We discussed the characters, and then acted it out!

 After we acted it out, we illustrated the beginning, middle, and end. 

What GREAT illustrators I have!!!

Discovery Centers

I love Discovery Centers!

They are completely child-directed where they learn while having SO MUCH FUN!

I introduce them one at a time. These are the centers we have open right now:

DRAMATIC PLAY CENTER:

Lemonade Stand

How many things can we learn during dramatic play??  

Relationships, creativity, sharing, self discovery, self confidence, story telling, group play, cooperation, and communication to name a few!! 

BLOCK CENTER:

READING CENTER:

Right now for this center, they use pointers to "read around the room" and to read our classroom rules which were written together during SHARED WRITING time.
In the reading center, we are learning that - letters put together- make up the words we say. We are noticing that spaces between words tell us a new word is coming.

The kids are also enjoying time to explore our classroom library...

It's been fun to retell stories, or even make up our own stories to go along with the picture!!

Q Detectives

On letter Q day, we all brought our favorite quilts to snuggle up to and read a story!

We were QUIET as a Mouse as we became Q-Detectives. There were Q-Words hidden all over the room that needed to be found!

 The children TIP-TOED throughout the classroom finding the letter Q... we were surprised at how many words we found!

     

  

Once we had found all the Q words, we did what ANY accomplished mouse would do and devoured some CHEESY Cheetos!

  

Grayson is SO excited to eat that Cheeto! HA!! I think they might be getting sick of me taking their picture!!