News From Room 156. 6 Newsletter … · Can’t Catch Me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” If you hear...
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1 [email protected] Mrs. Fields & Mrs. Sanders j525-3163 December 7, 2011 M News from our room: “Run, Run, As Fast as You Can, You Can’t Catch Me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” If you hear us saying this, you know that we are having so much fun talking about the Gingerbread Man story. We have had the opportunity to also read many different versions of this story and we’re all excited to know what happened to the Gingerbread at the end of each one. We have been having lots of fun making our own gingerbread boy or girl using play dough, art materials (markers, crayons, paint, etc.) and soon real dough. We will have a blast baking our very own gingerbread boy/ girl and will soon have a Gingerbread baking story of our own! Have a wonderful Holiday Break! Ask Your Child About... Stories we are reading: Gingerbread Shapes (Story Board/Little Book) The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt; The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone; The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst; The Gingerbread Mouse by Katy Bratun; The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires; The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett; Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett; The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith Songs/Fingerplays we are learning:Brown Bear Brown Bear; The Tempo Marches On; Swing your Partner, Jump Up & Turn Around, Sticky Bubble Gum; Shake Shake Shake My Wiggles Out Activities: Color Sorting Activity, Number Game with cards; Ordering Activity (Using number dot cards); Reading Gingerbread Shapes Little Book; Gingerbread Shape Matching Game; Venn Diagram (comparing Gingerbread Girl & Boy); Take Home Activity (decorate a Gingerbread boy or girl and add a story about it); Gingerbread Play- dough (making pretend Gingerbread boys/ girls and letters); Baking Gingerbread Cookies NOTE : Thank you again for all the wonderful supplies given to our classroom and also thanks to all of our families and visitors! News From Room 156 School Focus: Hand in Hand, We Learn New Things Together Words We are Learning About: patience Vocabulary:catch, rest, closer, sly, trick
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[email protected] Mrs. Fields & Mrs. Sanders j525-3163 December 7, 2011 M
News from our room:“Run, Run, As Fast as You Can, You Can’t Catch Me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” If you hear us saying this, you know that we are having so much fun talking about the Gingerbread Man story. We have had the opportunity to also read many different versions of this story and we’re all excited to know what happened to the Gingerbread at the end of each one. We have been having lots of fun making our own gingerbread boy or girl using play dough, art materials (markers, crayons, paint, etc.) and soon real dough. We will have a blast baking our very own gingerbread boy/girl and will soon have a Gingerbread baking story of our own! Have a wonderful Holiday Break!
Ask Your Child About...Stories we are reading: Gingerbread Shapes (Story Board/Little Book) The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt; The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone; The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst; The Gingerbread Mouse by Katy Bratun; The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires; The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett; Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett; The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Songs/Fingerplays we are learning:Brown Bear Brown Bear; The Tempo Marches On; Swing your Partner, Jump Up & Turn Around, Sticky Bubble Gum; Shake Shake Shake My Wiggles Out
Activities: Color Sorting Activity, Number Game with cards; Ordering Activity (Using number dot cards); Reading Gingerbread Shapes Little Book; Gingerbread Shape Matching Game; Venn Diagram (comparing Gingerbread Girl & Boy); Take Home Activity (decorate a Gingerbread boy or girl and add a story about it); Gingerbread Play-dough (making pretend Gingerbread boys/girls and letters); Baking Gingerbread Cookies NOTE: Thank you again for all the wonderful supplies given to our classroom and also thanks to all of our families and visitors!
News From Room 156
School Focus: Hand in Hand, We Learn New Things Together
Words We are Learning About:
patience
Vocabulary:catch, rest, closer, sly, trick
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Dates to Remember:December 15 Volunteer Work Day 8:30-3:30
December 20 2:30PM Early Dismissal
Dec. 21-Jan. 2 No School/Winter Break
January 3 No School for Students/Teacher Institute Day
January 5 Volunteer Work Day 8:30-3:30
January 16 No School/ Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 19 Volunteer Work Day 8:30-3:30
January 31 No School/Parent-Teacher Conferences
February 1 No School/Parent-Teacher Conferences
Things You Can Do At Home:1. Seasonal Paper Chains:
Help your child tape together 1-by-8-inch strips of construction paper to create a chain that contains as many loops as there are days remaining before a holiday or special event. Let your child count the loops each time one is added to the chain. Each day, have your child remove one of the loops and count the remaining loops to determine how many days are left before the holiday.
2. Letters Letters Everywhere:
Whenever your child expresses interest in a letter from the alphabet, help him or her discover that letter on book covers, cereal boxes, soup cans, or pages from a magazine or newspaper. Take your child for a walk in the neighborhood and look for that letter on street signs and billboards.
3. Holiday Story-time:
Have your child “read” his or her favorite holiday story to you or other family members. Your child will also enjoy reading the story to his or her favorite toy.
