Gingerbread Man

We read the Gingerbread Man is Loose in School and guess what....he left us a note in the back of our book for us to follow him. We went to the media center, art room, computer lab, music room, restroom, gym, lunchroom, office, bus pick up, car rider area, and the playground and we never caught up with him!  When we came back to the room, the had left a gingerbread cookie at each of our seats. 

We had a great time finding all the different places in our school. 

When we are our cookie we took 1 bite and then graphed what we are first then we finished the cookie. 

Our First Day!

We had an amazing day.  It went by so fast!!!  We had so much fun!

We read The Gingerbread Man and when we finished the gingerbread man had left us a message!!

We chased him all over school.  We searched the gym, art room, music room, computer lab, office, lunchroom, library, bus line, car line, and playground. We finally chased him back to our room where he left us gingerbread cookies and disappeared.  We were sad we never caught him but so excited that he left us a snack. 

We took one bite of our gingerbread and the ripped a paper gingerbread man to match our first bite.  (Did we eat the head, leg, or arm first?). Then we graphed our data and made observations about the information on our graph. 

Next we played Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar? 

We used the Smart Board random name generator to play.  After each child's name was called they would come up and select the next student. 

Sorry about the dark picture. We had to have the lights off to see 😊

What are our rules???

We read David Goes to School and talked about all the good and bad choices David made.  Then we made a Do and Don't list.  

We will continue to work on rules and play Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar? To learn everyone's names.  

This is going to be a great week! 

Rules and Routines...teach them early!!!!

The first few weeks have gone by so fast.  My 24 Kindergarten kids have adjusted well.  We went on a gingerbread man hunt through the school and on the way we found the lunchroom, bathroom, media center, car pick up area, bus loop, playground, and all of the locations of our specials (PE, Art, Music, Computer Lab).  Our hunt ended back in our classroom where the Gingerbread Man had left us gingerbread cookies.  The kids were so excited that he left us a snack.  This kept them from being upset that we were unable to "catch" him.  After we took 1 bite out of our gingerbread man cookies we graphed what part we ate first.  This was a fun way to explore our school with a familiar story, eat a snack, and get a graphing lesson in :) 
  
We read about when the monster came to school.  After hearing about all the wrong choices the monster had made, we brainstormed rules to help the monster make better choices.  These became our class rules.  The monster hung out for a while to make sure that the kids made great choices.  We then decorated out own monsters.