Christmas Games

Visit the blog Technology Rocks.  Seriously. and scroll to the bottom of the page for some very fun Christmas-themed and gingerbread man-themed computer games.  Lots of math games, and some online stories and sequencing activities.  Click the image above for one of the games, and Elf Sorter.

See Your House in a Snowglobe

Just for fun, type in your full address, city and state and see your house in a snowglobe.  :)  Snowglobe

Run, Run as Fast as You Can!

These are our gingerbread men decorated at home and our gingerbread glyphs. 

GIngerbread Man Pie Graph

 The kindergartners ate gingerbread cookies, and we created a pie graph showing which piece was eaten first.  They then analyzed the data and wrote about the data we collected.

Gingerbread Science

The students predicted what would have happened if the gingerbread man had fallen into the water, instead of riding on the fox's back.  They had to write their predictions and then write and draw what happened after observing the effects of putting the gingerbread cookie in water.  The students also decorated and ate gingerbread cookies.

Gingerbread House Wall

Mrs. Mehling created this adorable gingerbread house in our classroom.  The students decorated candy canes with patterns.  They also wrote words that describe gingerbread and interactively wrote on the gingerbread man.

Book It! December reading log

Thanks to those of you who returned November reading logs today.  I will collect them through next week.  If you return a completed log, your child will receive a free pan pizza from Pizza Hut.  I apologize for not getting the December reading logs sent home today.  They will be in your child's red folder next week.  Please keep track of any times read between now and then, so you can record on your child's log when you get it.  You can also visit the Book It! website for more resources.  Thanks!

Count with the Gingerbread Man!

Fun Gingerbread Sites

These great sites let the kindergartners decorate their own gingerbread man cookies and houses ... with no mess!  :)

The Gingerbread Man with Everything is a free site from Sprint that lets kids decorate their own cookies.  Lots of candy choices that can be rotated and moved.  Icing choices of different colors and size allow the kindergartners to get very creative!

Here is another fun cookie decorating site.

The Design Your Own Gingerbread House game lets kids make their own gingerbread houses.

Jan Brett's site is very cool.

Here is another great gingerbread house site.

This is a great simple version of the story at Starfall.  

This is a great interactive story.  This site has lots of great gingerbread retelling and sequencing ideas, just do a search for "gingerbread".

Student of the Month

Our Student of the Month for November is a hard worker, a good friend and a good listener who always tries his best.  He will get to have McDonald's lunch with the principal next week.  Congratulations!

Our Thankful Tree

Thankful Week Lunch

Thanks to those of you who were able to join us for our Thankful Week lunch!  The kindergartners loved reading with you.

Thankful Week Lunch

Monday, November 12th is our "Thankful Week" lunch.  If you can join us, you are welcome to visit our classroom from 10:40-11:00 to read with the kindergartners, then eat from 11:00-11:20 (they then go to the playground until 11:40).  Adult lunch is $3.40 and we will need to know if you are coming by 9:00am on Monday so we can plan accordingly.  Thank you!

Happy Fall!

Mrs. Mehling decorated our door with this adorable scarecrow.  Then the kids interactively wrote labels for the scarecrow.  Happy Fall!

Internet Safety

Mrs. Meyer talked to the kindergartners today about internet safety.  She shared the website www.NetSmartzKids.org, which is a great resource.  Kindergartners are encouraged to color the sheet she provided (in their Wednesday folders) and visit the internet site with their families.