Gingerbread, Christmas Trees, and Grandparents Day

It's been a busy week studying gingerbread, Christmas trees and lights, and celebrating Grandparents Day too!  We had so much fun spending time with our visiting grandparents and making our special ornaments.  We even sang a special song for them and got to eat cookies too. :)  We did an experiment with gingerbread cookies as well!  We read some great books and also worked on the letter "D" this week in the midst of all the other festivities.  Hope you enjoy our pics from the week!

Grandparents helping us paint our ornaments from "Earth and Fire Pottery"

Funny poses with our grandparents :)

Showing our grandparents our classroom

Reading books and eating cookies with our grandparents

 Thank you so much grandparents for visiting us and helping us paint our ornaments!

During classwork, we worked on 1:1 correspondence by putting on the correct number of stickers with the correlating number on our Christmas trees.

We made Christmas tree ornaments by putting jewels on paint samples that were cut into trees.  We hung these on our classroom tree.

When you add corn syrup to watercolor paint, it makes it look shiny.  We painted our Christmas lights with this type of paint, and it turned out so pretty and shiny.

We used dotters to dot inside of circles on our pages.  This is great fine motor and also a great way to practice staying in the lines.  We drew a ribbon on top to make it look like an ornament.

We drew a picture of some of the favorite things we like to do in the winter time.

We read a book about Baby Jesus.

We made predictions about whether or not our gingerbread cookie would sink or float and whether or not it would dissolve in the water.  We agreed that it would dissolve but didn't know how long it would take.  We were also surprised to see that it actually floated for quite a while until it started to dissolve.  So, we counted to see how long it would take for it to dissolve in the water.  We counted to 100 (in groups of 25) and realized it crumbled when we tried to pick it up with tongs out of the water!

Fine motor fun to challenge our brain and our hands

Using DOTS to cover our letter "Dd"

Using our color words to read our books and decide which color to use for each light

Reading with friends

Painting Santa's face on Friday

Decorating the lobby tree on Friday with a few glass balls

Show and Tell for letter "D"

4 doggies

1 dolphin

1 duck

1 donkey

1 Donald Duck

1 Doc McStuffins doctor bag

Working our brains and bodies in the MIM room

Bridge and Lunch Bunch Activities

Reviewing how to write letters covered so far

Reviewing different shapes as we draw gingerbread men

Finding the set of gingerbread men that are the same on each of the cards

Working together on a puzzle independently

Reviewing our ten frames and numbers on our Christmas tree cards

Sorting through cards to see which pictures start with the letter "D"

Fine motor fun with decorating our tree

Making reindeer and Christmas tree crafts

Decorating our own gingerbread men

Playing BINGO with a variety of skills covered so far

Sewing cards for fine motor practice

Christmas stamps

Decorating stars with markers and then spraying them to make the colors blend

Playing the "Super Why" board game to help us review beginning letter sounds and rhyming word

Playdough fun

Playtime with friends

Christmas yoga :)

Hope you enjoyed our pics from the week!