YUM!

This morning we had tons of fun rolling out our very own gingerbread cookies with Mrs. Anderson!  Thanks to Mrs. Kaczmarek for sending in the yummy dough for us to use!!  Miss Heidi baked them in the kitchen for us during lunch and we enjoyed taste testing them this afternoon AFTER our popcorn snack!  Wow!  We had big day filled with yummy food!
When we ate our cookie, we needed to decide whether we would eat its foot, head or arm first!  We then tore that part off of our paper cookie to display on our class graph!
Check out our graph...

Holiday Card Exchange!

Wow!  We received lots of holiday cards this week!!  Check out where they are coming from!  So far, the warmest state has been California!!  Did you know their average temperature on December 15th is 68 degrees??  Wow!!

Our Third Trip to the Hartland Public Library!

 A huge thank you to Mrs. Bublitz and Mrs. Kaczmarek for walking with us to the Hartland Public Library this afternoon!  We had great weather to walk there and back and loved learning more about the illustrator Robert Sabuda!  

Robert makes pop-up books and we loved listening to and looking at the following stories:

Check out his website here

A HUGE Thank You!!

A HUGE Thank You to LF's Mom and Dad for coming in this morning to help us with two special holiday projects!  We couldn't have done them without you!  You were both great leaders!!


A holiday tree made out of paper chains...

We had to put our strips in order from shortest to longest to create this tree...

Gingerbread Glyph Activity

Today we engaged in an awesome Gingerbread Glyph Activity!  Check out the guide and make sure to stop by our classroom to see our gingerbread kids!

Comparing Stories

Today we used a venn diagram to compare two familiar stories, "The Gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett, and "The Gingerbread Man" by Karen Schmidt!  

Look at all of our great thinking!!

Holiday Card Exchange 2012

Our class is participating in a Holiday Card Exchange around the world!!  In the next two weeks we will be sending and receiving holiday cards from 30 different classrooms around the world!  The theme for the card exchange was "snow globes" and we had LOTS of fun making our snow globes this morning to send to the other classrooms! 

We have received three cards so far!  We were thrilled to learn that the first three states to send us cards were Pennsylvania, Texas and Indiana!  We will make sure to put them all next to our map to keep track of where they are all coming from!  How exciting!!

Literacy Work Stations!!

Yesterday we started our first set of Literacy Work Stations!  Wow!  We had a great time!!  During this set of stations we are collaborating with our partner to listen to a story and choose our favorite characters, act out a variety of big books and stories, use expression fluency while reading familiar poems, building star words, writing words from around our classroom, playing a variety of games to practice taking  turns and having a great time, using creative expression to make a very special gift, independently use the Macbooks and SMARTBoard to engage in a variety of literacy games and practice beginning sounds with a special toy book!  Please ask your child which two stations he or she has visited so far!!

Showing Numbers 1-10

Today we practiced showing numbers 1-10 on our 1-20 boards with square inch tiles and 5 strips!  Check out our hard work!

When will it snow?

We are ready for the first snowfall!!!

Showing Numbers 1-10

During Math today we had lots of fun working with our partners to show numbers 1-10 on our 1-20 boards!  We used nickel/penny strips and single pennies to show each number!  Check out our hard work!

Counting Down to 2013!!

Check out the awesome project we made to help us count down to 2013!!!

Counting Mat Activities

During Math this week we worked with partners to show numbers 1-10, using groups of shapes and the equals and not equals sign!  Check out what we worked on!

Repeating Patterns!

During Math today we had lots of fun making our very own repeating patterns using a variety of shapes and colors!