Happy Birthday Sam! Gingerbread was the theme of the week, and we had so much fun! We read two versions of the original Gingerbread man story, and then read a number of different variations! The Gingerbread Pirates, The Gingerbread Girl, and The Gingerbread Bear. We tried to predict which books the fox would eat the boy. We had a blast at the art table working on a gingerbread project for our portfolios and some holiday projects to decorate our room! We had fun with different gingerbread themed manipulatives that focused on fine motor and visual perception skills this week. One of our old standbys, gingerbread play dough, is great for working out the small muscles in our fingers. We used our spatial skills to put together our gingerbread man puzzle. We played a partner game in which the children had to take turns and practice their counting as they asked their partner how many cookies they would like and served them to each other using a pancake flipper! We had to use our fine motor skills when picking up the teeny tiny shapes for our gingerbread shape match game and our visual skills were used when trying to mimic the arrangement of the shapes on gingerbread man. We had a lot of fun decorating a huge magnetic gingerbread house over and over again!! The children were encourage to try some patterning in their decorations as well! The long awaited field trip to Madagascar is on Thursday, December 12th!! We can't wait!
The weather outside is...all over the place! Please check and make sure that your child has seasonally appropriate spare clothes in their cubby. This time of year we suggest long pants, long sleeved shirt, underwear and a few pairs of socks! Once the snow hits...wet socks are a frequent occurrence! Speaking of outside: As long as the weather is over 20° (including windchill) we try to take the children outside for some fresh air!! Please make sure that you have warm enough outside gear. A warm coat, boots, mittens and a hat are a necessity :)
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