Freddy Sparkleberry

An elf came to visit us for the month of December.  His name is Freddy Sparkleberry.  We've had fun finding where he is every day.  He watches for the good things we do at school and then goes home at night to tell Santa. So far some of the things he's seen include: sharing with our friends, cleaning up, trying our hardest, listening well during storytime, following directions, using good manners, and singing beautifully!!

As an art project/math activity we counted out 8 paper strips and then learned how to make a paper chain.  Some of us even used the paper strips to create patterns!  All of us practiced counting out links once we were done!

Freddy brought us some fun activity sheets to complete. We have a Christmas Countdown, where we trace a number each day as well as A,B,C tracing activity.  One day he even brought us a Christmas puzzle!

We had fun wearing red and green to school on Thursday! 

Our finished gingerbread men!

Lining up after music class!

Oh my goodness, who is sitting near the lamp?  It's an elf!!

What's Freddy doing hanging upside down??  He's a silly elf!

On Wednesday, Freddy brought us a puzzle.  We had fun putting it together during story time.  We each took turns picking a piece and finding where it goes!

Our finished puzzle!

On Thursday we found Freddy near the check in basket!

We've had fun using Christmas stencils in the morning when we first arrive!

Our room is filled with Christmas books.  So fun to look through all the new books after snack!

Gingerbread Week

We had such a fun week!  On Tuesday we read Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett, on Wednesday we read Gingerbread Friends, also by Jan Brett and on Thursday we read the folktale The Gingerbread Boy.  We also watched a song about the Gingerbread Man and a short video version of the story!

We made Gingerbread play dough together on Thursday and then had a chance to use gingerbread cookie cutters to make gingerbread people.  For our art project we decorated a foam gingerbread boy/girl. Mrs. Chyko helped us practice our letters with an a,b,c, dot to dot.

"Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!" became a favorite chant to repeat.  Mrs. Willer helped us write write a short story based on this chant. 

We're practicing for our Christmas Show with Mrs. Jenkins.  She even pulled out the hand bells for us to use!

The kids may enjoy watching some of these again at home!

Gingerbread song video

gingerbread fingerplay we learned

story of Gingerbread Baby

Activity time! Such a great way to develop creativity, imagination, and critical thinking skills!

Making play dough.

Adding water, and oil to the dry ingredients.

Playing with our home made play dough!

Learning how to use gingerbread lacing cards.

Creating a giant track for our vehicles with blocks!