Future Bakers

Well I must say we have some future bakers on our hands.  Today we started our day off by doing centers.  At Grandma Sue's center the children were given a Ziploc bag of the gingerbread cookie dough that they mixed up on Tuesday.  They were also each given a rolling pin.  They rolled out their dough and used a cookie cutter to cut a gingerbread man out of it.  At my center the children cut out the outline of a gingerbread man.  They then used doters to make an AA BB pattern around the edges of their man.  An example of this pattern would be red, red, blue, blue.  This is the pattern that we have been working on all month with our daily calendar. The purpose of this project was to see if the children could apply what they learned.  At the third center the children were each given a die and a recording sheet.  They rolled their die and dotted the number rolled.  A few children were given two dice and asked to add the two numbers rolled.

 

 

Today our story was titled Gingerbread Man Loose in the School.  Unlike the stories from the previous days in today's story the gingerbread man was chasing/looking for the school children, rather than being the one being chased.  After the story our cookies were cooled.  Each child took one bite of their cookie then STOPPED.  We then graphed what they bit first.  Was it the head, arm, or leg?  Lastly, I have included a picture from another Santa's Workshop play center.  At the sensory table the children are using blocks, wrapping paper and ribbons to wrap presents.  They give them to their friends and pretend that they are gifts.  Today I was given a sparkly golden bracelet as a gift(it was really a block in disguise).  I was very touched by the thought!