Run, run, as fast as you can!

You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!


Last week, we had quite an adventure with our Gingerbread Man friends!  After reading several versions of the classic tale, we made our very own tasty cookies.  Mrs. Bradshaw took the cookies home to bake them in her oven on Wednesday night.  She watched them very carefully to make sure they didn't escape from the oven.  Even Macey, the dog, kept a close eye on those sneaky little guys!


On Thursday, Mrs. Bradshaw brought the cookies back to school.  She showed them to the class first thing in the morning, but when we went to get them to decorate, THEY WERE GONE!  We chased them all over the school building, following the clues they left for us along the way.  We finally found them back in the classroom, after they visited many different places throughout our school.

The empty cookie tray!

They're gone!

The first stop:  The Media Center

The clue left at the Media Center

Next stop: The Gym

They were even spotted in the 3rd grade hallway!

Next stop:  All-Purpose Room

Next stop:  Health Room (where we found one guy who injured his head and leg from running!)

Next stop:  Guidance Counselor

Even our Assistant Principal saw them!

Ahh!  We found them back in our classroom!

We're so relieved to have found them!

We thought they were gone forever!

Time for decorating!

We really loved our Gingerbread Man unit!

Apple Taste Test

We're taking our apple theme to all subject areas this week!

In reading, we identified what we already know about apples and questions that we have about apples.  We read a non-fiction book about how apples grow.  In writing, we stretched out words to write facts we learned about apples.  In math, we  sampled yellow, red, and green apples.  Students collected data about their favorite apples on tally tables and displayed that data in bar graphs.

Check out some pictures of our taste test and math lesson!

Red Delicious apples are red.

"These green apples are tasty!"

Yellow Delicious apples are yellow.

Granny Smith apples are green.

Granny Smiths are very sour!

Which is your favorite?

We talked about what we liked and didn't like about the different apples.

Our friends had different opinions about the different apples.

Making our final decisions

Putting our data in a bar graph

We've learned strategies to help us correctly make our bar graphs.

Come back tomorrow to check out our pictures from our apple foods taste test!  We'll be trying apple cider, apple sauce, apple chips, and apple jelly.

Free Choices

Each afternoon, we work in Free Choice Centers, which include areas such as Housekeeping, Art Center, Cars and Trucks, Legos, Puppets, and our newest favorite, Marble Run.  Four centers are open each afternoon and students choose which center to spend their time that afternoon.  Free choices give us the opportunity to work together, interact socially, and use our imaginations.  Here are some pictures of us working in our free choices.   Enjoy!

Art Center Fun!

Being creative in Art Center

"Look at my Lego tower!"

"Let's create a flying machine!"

Marble Run fun!

Time to put a marble in and try it out!

Busy Marble Run workers!

Putting away the groceries at Housekeeping

We hope you enjoyed a peek at our Free Choice Centers!

Working Together!

We will be continuing our study of nursery rhymes this week in reading.  We've been reading well-known rhymes, such as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "Little Miss Muffet."  Each day, after reading the rhymes, we identify rhyming word pairs.  Here, our kindergarten friends worked with a partner to match up rhyming word cards.  They worked so nicely with their partners!