What a BUSY and short
week we had! Monday and Tuesday were
snow days! While I was excited for the
days off, it made me wonder / worry how I was going to get some of my holiday stuff
done!
Never fear! My students worked so incredibly hard these
three days of school we had!
My plan was to have my
students make a gingerbread house bulletin board. However, I didn’t just want them to make it
and then that would be it. I wanted them
to show their work on it.
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| Our finished project! |
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| Our gumball roof and part of the house |
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| Part of the bottom of the house |
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| The other part of the bottom of the house |
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| Bottom middle of the house |
I cut out the basic
shape of the house (which was divided in half because on that wall, it’s the
bulletin board, coat hooks, and then wall,).
Then during small groups, my students helped me paint the frosting. This was actually a better activity then I
ever thought it would be. First of all,
my students had to collaborate on this.
(How they were going to divide up the area, share the paint, etc…) Second of all, a few of my students had no
clue how to paint, how to use the paint
brush, how to turn it to make the lines look good….so it was truly a learning
experience for all of them.
Next up we worked on
our peppermints. I had already put the
lines on the paper plates. My students
and I talked about patterns, what they look like, and different kinds of patterns. Then I let the students paint a pattern. They really liked it!
While the paint dried, we reviewed doubles facts. We used the poem from First Grade Wow’sDouble Mint Math packet! We also used 2 of Harry Kindergarten’s Doubles videos. Doubles 1-5 and Doubles 6-10. (My kids LOVE those songs!) Then I gave the students their peppermints. They had to write doubles facts on there. While they were writing their facts, I could hear them reciting the poem and singing the songs! So cute!!! Here are a couple of the peppermints:
While the paint dried, we reviewed doubles facts. We used the poem from First Grade Wow’sDouble Mint Math packet! We also used 2 of Harry Kindergarten’s Doubles videos. Doubles 1-5 and Doubles 6-10. (My kids LOVE those songs!) Then I gave the students their peppermints. They had to write doubles facts on there. While they were writing their facts, I could hear them reciting the poem and singing the songs! So cute!!! Here are a couple of the peppermints:
Next up were our
gingerbread people! I got the template
from a Holidays Around the World packet I bought on TPT. We’ve been learning about adjectives in
class. So after coloring in the face and
decorations, they wrote adjectives about themselves. (They did all of this with crayon.) Then we took brown water color paint and
painted over it. The kids LOVED how it
made the crayons POP!
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| I love how this student made a frown but wrote they were nice! :-) |
We’ve spent a lot of
time learning about December holidays all over the world. (Courtesy of the packet I mentioned above.) Each of them got to pick a gumball and a
country. Then they had to write a fact
that they remembered from that country.
I was pleasantly surprised (and happy) with some of the things my
students remembered!
Finally, my students
made mini gingerbread houses that we turned into fact family houses. They got to pick the numbers they wanted to
use for their fact family. (Of course
they were somewhat limited. They could
only pick numbers from 1-10.)
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| Added this to the side of our gingerbread house so anyone passing by would know what we did! |
After all was said and
done, I put up their work and showed it to them. Their faces lit up with excitement! It truly was adorable!
Thanks for reading!
Enjoy your weekend!
Stacey
Stacey
