Gingerbread Kid Cookies

We read all about different gingerbread men and a girl so we had to make our own.  At first I made one big gingerbread boy but the girls wanted a girl too.  So I started all over.

 

Roll the dough back out

The Spunky Monkeys were amazed how I made the gingerbread boy
but not Xander.  He said, "She's good cause she's got skills!"
 Xander got a high five elbow bump!

Watch the "skills" in action

A gingerbread boy and girl are made

Have to have details and drop cookies too

After cooking, adding icing

Yummy!

Ready to eat

Gingerbread Man Shrinky Dinks

We made shrinky dink Gingerbread Men this week after we read different versions of the story.

Before they went in the oven

Adding details to our gingerbread man

Put into the oven and watch BUT don't open the door

WOW! Watch them shrink

Now, they are ready to make into necklaces with a bead pattern

Jan Brett's The Mitten

We read The Mitten by Jan Brett this week.  After reading it, we added the characters to our own white mitten.  We had to add them in order.  Next we added the action verb to each character. Later we added the other characters, Nicki and Baba to the mitten.  We also learned a song that puts the two together.  Then, our favorite part was singing and acting out the story.

 

The mole, rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, and fox are
already in the mitten.

Here comes the lumbering BEAR!

The mouse made the bear sneeze and they all fell out with an
AAaaah, AAaaah, AAaaah...chooo!

Mrs. Hood, the Happy Hound teacher, found the song.    If I remember right, it goes something like this (to the tune The Farmer and the Dell).

The mittens on the ground,

the mittens on the ground,

hi-ho it's cold outside,

the mittens on the ground.

The mole burrowed in,

the mole burrowed in,

hi-ho it's cold outside,

the mole burrowed in.

Continue with each animal and action verb.

Reindeer Learning

We learned about reindeer this week.  Our poem for the week was Five Little Renideer.  After we read the poem several times.  The line, OOooo went the wind and out went the lights, didn't make sense.  We thought the lights should go ON at Christmas time since Christmas lights are pretty at night.  So, with a sticky note, we changed it.  Now we could act it out but first we had to get ourselves in order.  Each hat had an ordinal number on it.

 

Zuleydi, Maddie, Wesley, Kaitlin, Robert, and Gordon

Tinija, Ruel, Kevin, Bryson, Jaxon, and Xander

We also learned information about reindeer.  We did some of our own informational writing by labeling our reindeer.  After we wrote our labels, we went out in the hall and added our reindeer and labels to butcher paper on the walls.

 

Zuleydi, Kevin, Madison, Maria, and Nicole working hard

Up close view



The Spunky Monkeys did a great job!

Measuring Fun

We measured capacity, length, and weight this week.  I took pictures of two but forgot to take pictures of the Spunky Monkeys measuring by weight.  See below as they work to measure.

Kaitlin measuring capacity

Kevin recording how many scoops fit in his "bowl"

Xander helping measure Jayson

Nicole and Jaxon measuring the length of a bookcase

Mrs. Roberts helping Zuleydi measure the computer

Wesley and Xander measuring the table top

Christmas Program

Merry Christmas!

We had our Christmas Program on December 6th.  We made Spunky Monkey Santa hats for our performance.  We didn't know it, but Santa was watching the program and came out at the end and walked us to our classroom.  Mrs. Martin asked him if we could take a picture.  The Spunky Monkeys were so excited to see him!  Thanks Santa!