Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that everyone had a wonderful and safe holiday!
This week in Kindergarten, we have been chasing a naughty Gingerbread Baby! On Monday, we read the book, The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. We talked about the characters, setting, ending and refrain. Then as a class, we measured and mixed our own gingerbread cookie. When we went back to get him after recess, our gingerbread man was gone! All week he has been spotted around school and we are working hard to catch him. We have been reading all the literature available on gingerbread people in order to decide which tactic is the most effective. On Tuesday we read The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth and took notes on the character, setting, ending and refrain. On Wednesday we read The Sticky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith and compared that story with The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. On Thursday we read The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst and started to make a plan to catch our own Gingerbread Baby. On Friday we hope to catch him and finally get a taste of that ginger we have smelled all week! We will also be taking a look at all the different story endings and writing our own.
This week in Math, we have started Topic 7: Geometry. So far, we have discussed parallelograms, trapezoids, hexagons, triangles, squares, circles and rectangles. There will be extra homework coming home next week involving each student bringing in a shape from home; please on the lookout for that extra assignment!
Next week we will start "traveling" around the world studying the different holiday celebrations in different countries. This unit will take 2 weeks as we travel to France, Italy, Sweden, Israel, India, and Mexico and back to Chicago to sample the holiday traditions of each country. If you have anything that you would like to add to this unit, please let me know. As a culminating activity, we will be visiting the Museum of Science and Industry on Monday December 20th to visit their exhibit "Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light". A permission slip for this field trip will be going home today. Please have it back to us by Friday December 10th. Thanks!
Reminders
- Family Mass is this Sunday December 5th at 8:30 A.M. I hope to see everyone there!
- The Christmas Pageant for Kindergarten and Preschool will be Friday December 17th at 11:00 in the church. We will be talking more about this as it gets closer.
- The last day of school before Christmas Break will be Wednesday December 22nd.
Requests
- We are in need of both gallon and sandwich sized baggies
Thanks so much!
