This week in KD was all about GINGERBREAD! We kicked off our 2-week Gingerbread Man unit on Monday by reading Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt. This story is the classic gingerbread man tale, making it a great starting point. We identified the characters, setting, and introduced problem and solution. We also talked about repeating phrases and how the story ended.
Additionally, in ALO with Mrs. Belkind we read The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg. The students then brainstormed what could happen to different letters that start with that same letter, such as "The F was flying". Next week, the students will make their own book.
Tuesday, we re-read and watched Gingerbread Man. The students then worked independently to identify and order all the characters based on the order they appeared in the story. They then drew the setting, and retold the story with a partner. The repeating phrases and multiple characters made it such a fun retell!
Tuesday we also recieved our Osmos for the iPad thanks to the PTO. Osmo turns the iPad into hands on play with many educational games. This week we have done coding, phonics, number practice, geometry tangarams, and art with it! Thank you PTO for this AWESOME new resource!
Additionally, in ALO with Mrs. Belkind we read The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg. The students then brainstormed what could happen to different letters that start with that same letter, such as "The F was flying". Next week, the students will make their own book.
Tuesday, we re-read and watched Gingerbread Man. The students then worked independently to identify and order all the characters based on the order they appeared in the story. They then drew the setting, and retold the story with a partner. The repeating phrases and multiple characters made it such a fun retell!
Tuesday we also recieved our Osmos for the iPad thanks to the PTO. Osmo turns the iPad into hands on play with many educational games. This week we have done coding, phonics, number practice, geometry tangarams, and art with it! Thank you PTO for this AWESOME new resource!
On Wednesday, we read our second Gingerbread book, Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. The students had to be really good listeners and detectives during this book, as much of the story is told through details in the pictures. After identifying all our story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, repeating phrase, and ending), the students tried using a venn diagram for the first time. We used hola-hoops to cerat a giant venn diagram and compare the characters from our 2 stories. This was a great way to easily see which characters were the same and different.
After reading, the students made their own Gingerbread person. The catch was they had to use exactly 10 pieces to make it. This was a great math task in making 10.
After reading, the students made their own Gingerbread person. The catch was they had to use exactly 10 pieces to make it. This was a great math task in making 10.
Thursday started with learning L in Jolly Phonics and Handwriting. Then, our 3rd grade buddies taught us to code as a part of Hour of Code (https://code.org/learn). It was so exciting to get to use the Chromebooks.
We then read Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires. Again, we talked about all story elements and compared characters. We also had time for free choice centers including tower building, patterning, and more Osmo.
We then read Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires. Again, we talked about all story elements and compared characters. We also had time for free choice centers including tower building, patterning, and more Osmo.
Friday we read our final Gingerbread book, Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campell. We talked about how different all 4 books were from each other, and what they had in common. We then voted on which was our favorite... Gingerbread Girl won by 1 vote! To wrap up, the students wrote about what they would do if the Gingerbread Man popped out of their oven.
Last but not least, Olaf enjoyed his first week in Kinder! He chose 2 students a day who were being safe, respectful, and responsible. He will be back next week too :)
Next week, we will be creating our own Gingerbread village, our own gingerbread stories, and our own cookies!
Next week, we will be creating our own Gingerbread village, our own gingerbread stories, and our own cookies!