One day we read The Gingerbread Man and retold the story, focusing on using our sequencing words. The kids are doing a wonderful job of remember which sequencing words to use. All our practice has really paid off! We read another version of the story and talked about the differences between the tales and why they exist. We discussed folk tales and how stories used to be told by word, so people changed them over time.
We also read The Gingerbread Girl which is a cute story about the Gingerbread Boy's wiser sister. We did a Double Bubble as a whole group to discuss the similarities and differences between the two different stories.
We created gingerbread men in disguise during writing time, then the kiddos used Tree Maps to create sentences to tell about their gingerbread men. They're still doing a good job of using the Tree Map to createa full sentence, starting with a capital and ending with a period. These disguises turned out to be pretty cute!
During math one day, we created a gingerbread glyph. The students used a sheet of paper to describe themselves, then they used the directions to create their very own gingerbread person! This is a great way to learn about each other and the different things we like, the differences in our families, etc. We had a good time discussing all the things that we had in common!
One day we learned about the moon phases and created a cute project to go with it. I'd seen it on Pinterest, but it originally came from here. The kids loved how it was "almost like magic!" to watch the moon change from phase to phase. We researched moon phases on PebbleGo and talked about how the moon is ALWAYS in the sky, we just don't always see it. We were pretty amazed by that fact. :)
For Social Studies, we have been studying fables. This ties into our studies about families and traditions. There were a lot of great fables on My Capstone Library, so we were able to listen to the stories online. Very fun! The helper even used the Airliner to go through the pages for me, so I could work on our Tree Map. :) We thought about each fable we read and the lesson that we learned. Our class discovered that many fables teach us the same lessons, so those lessons must be pretty important. We had a great time reading the stories and learning how to make good choices!
We had another fabulous week. Thank you SO much for all the parents who donated to Toys for Tots. We've been talking about giving to those less fortunate, so it was great to be able to tie that into our lessons. Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!
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