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We had our first taste of snow, and the kids loved it! We will try and go outside everyday as long as the temperature is above 25 degrees. Please send your children to school with snowboots if there is still snow on the ground (grassy surfaces), if it is snowing or there is more than a small amount already on the ground please send in snowpants as they love to sit or kneel in the snow. We will help the children learn how to put them on themselves. Snow mittens are important to keep there hands and fingers warm and dry. If you would like to leave any snow gear here at school please let me know. My last request is that each item (left and right) are labeled. It makes it easier to return the item to the correct owenr. Thank you in advance for your help with this.
We are continuing our unit on friends while we read the many stories of the gingerbread man. In the first tale that we read, the Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt is tricked by a fox who tells him to come a little closer then gobbles him up. In the next version by by Catherine McCafferty, the fox helps the gingerbread man cross the river before he gobbles him up. In the third version, the Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst, she is able to trick the fox.
We have been working on our life skills 2 & 3 about following directions. The Lucky Ducks will continue to work on following both one and two step directions right away while we introduce our 4th preschool life skill - When something is too hard, find a teacher and say,'Help Please'.
Small Groups
Extending Patterns of gingerbread boys and girls - these pattern strips will remain at school to be used as part of our family party.
Decorating Group Gingerbreads - Students will need to discuss, share ideas and compromise how they would like to decorate on large gingerbread.
Sequencing gingerbreads by size and matching them to the correct size house.
Choice Time:
Kitchen - Today the Lucky Ducks helped set up our new bakery. They created baking pans (cardboard and tin f oil), found gingerbread shapes and selected small items for eyes and buttons. They will be baking gingerbreads in our oven with playdough
Art - Oh the glitter! The Lucky Ducks love glitter and this unit leads to so much glitter. They are decorating there gingerbread friends this week. We will begin to work on a large group gingerbread house as well.
Math - building patterns with unifix cubes
Playing Candy Land
Sensory Table - Lacing Pasta
