12/14 Classroom Update

Thank you to all the parents who came to Parent Teacher Conferences on Tuesday night. I really enjoyed meeting with you all and sharing your child's progress so far this year. I can't wait to see how they continue to grow over the course of the year!

This week, we read several versions of the classic story The Gingerbread Man. We continued to practice sequencing story events, focusing on the beginning, middle, and end. We sequenced the steps to making gingerbread cookies, then worked together to bake real gingerbread cookies! Luckily ours did not run away :) Here is peek at our week in preschool:

After reading The Gingerbread Baby, we made our own gingerbread houses for our gingerbread babies.

We reenacted the story of the Gingerbread Baby in the snow table. 

In our classroom bakery, preschoolers could take each other's cookie orders, bake cookies, and decorate cakes!

We practiced recognizing quantities by playing Gingerbread Roll & Cover.

We identified and wrote the beginning sound of different holiday words. 

At the writing center, we wrote several gingerbread words using many different tools!

 

We "ice skated" around the classroom on paper plates!

On Thursday, we worked together to bake gingerbread cookies!

We all got to help by adding in the different ingredients.

Cutting out our own cookies!

At the playdough center, we rolled and cut out playdough cookies.

After baking our gingerbread cookies, we decorated and ate them at snack time! They were a big hit! If anyone is interested in making quick and easy gingerbread cookies at home, this is the recipe we used to make ours at school: https://www.lilaloa.com/2013/12/no-chill-gingerbread-roll-out-cookies.html. 

Important Dates/Reminders:

Pajama Day: WECC will be having pajama day on Thursday 12/20 next week! Students are invited to wear their pajamas and slippers (make sure to bring shoes/boots for outside) to class!

Winter Party: Please join us for a fun winter party from 2:15-3:00 pm in our classroom this coming Thursday, December 20th! We are looking for volunteers to help make our party special for our preschoolers. To sign up to help, please go here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F4DACA62AA2FE3-pm5s1.

Winter Break: The last day of preschool classes before Winter Break is Thursday, December 20th. School resumes Monday, January 7th!

No School 1/21: There is no preschool on Monday 1/21 in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

Mid-Winter Break: There will be no preschool on Monday 2/18 and Tuesday 2/19 for a mid-winter break. School will resume on Wednesday 2/20.

Have a great weekend!