Santa's Workshop

Today when the children entered our classroom they found that it was transformed.  Our classroom now looks like Santa's Workshop.  In the writing center the children can make cards for loved ones, write a letter to Santa using words clipped to the dry earse board, or by sounding out the word and writing what they hear.  They can also color Christmas tree ornaments or string beads on a pipecleaner to make ornaments for our class tree.  Visit our blog again tomorrow to find out more about Santa's Workshop.

Today our read aloud was titled The Gingerbread Man.  The children listened to this story on a CD.  I must say that they truly enjoyed the readers use of different voices for each character in the story.  This week we are learning about the letter "C."  We can't talk about the letter "C" without talking about cookies.  Each day this week we will read a different version of the story The Gingerbread Man.  Through our discussions we will compare and contrast the characters in each story, the problem, and the solution in the story.  We will also make gingerbread cookies! 

At one of our centers today the children cut out four pictures form the story The Gingerbread Man.  They then sequenced the pictures in the correct order by what happened first, second, third, and last.  At Miss Sue's center the children sewed Christmas stockings.  Many of the children mentioned that they have never sewed before.  I must say that it did not show, for they did a super job!