Unit of Study: Gingerbread
Bridges: Snowflakes
& Winter Countdown
This week at school…
12/16 to 12/19
*Do to all the weather disruptions, I stretched
farm through last week and changed to Gingerbread for this week. We will conclude Gingerbread when we return
from winter vacation and do 5 Food Groups the following week.
Upcoming Events:
12/20 to 1/1 No PK – Winter Break
1/16 & 1/17 – Ms. Judy from Mansfield Library
1/20 – No PK
Signing Time
We learned the signs:
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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R
& S
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Opening Circle
Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs
Discussion:
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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Letter of
the week T (Magic Fingers)
Introduce Gingerbread. What is gingerbread? Discuss the different types of
gingerbread-cookies versus cakes.
Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when they get wet. Sand and Water Experiment-What
do you predict will happen when we mix sand and water? What happens if we put
a little bit of water? What happens if we put a lot of water?
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PM Only
Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when they get wet. Gingerbread
mix, butter and Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen when we mix
gingerbread mix, butter and water?
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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Letter of the week T (T Books)
AM
Science-Wet/Dry.
Discuss how things change when they get wet. Gingerbread mix, butter and
Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen when we mix gingerbread mix,
butter and water?
PM
Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when
they get wet. Cornstarch and Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen
when we mix Cornstarch and water? List predictions. Were your predictions
correct?
Make a web of cookie shop ideas for theme park.
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Number Corner (math)
Module 1
Session 1: Calendar update
Mystery Box: 6 hexagons in a box (3 large/3 thin hexagons, attribute cards:
more than one, it's made of plastic, red, blue, yellow, more than 3 corners,
more than 4 sides
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Module 1
Session 2: Calendar update.
Read, Little Mouse's Snowflake Question (use large blue hexagon attribute
block throughout). Count sides and corners. Revisit how snowflakes are made
using temporal words first, second.
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Second Step (Emily & Emilio)
Week: 11 Accidents
Concepts:
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An accident is when you do something you didn’t
mean to do.
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When you do something by accident, its’s
important to say it was an accident so others don’t think you did it on purpose.
Snack
Practice serving and pouring, cleaning up after
ourselves.
Thursday – We decorated and at our gingerbread
cookies! YUMMY!
Centers
Science
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Blocks
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Dramatic
Play
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Theme
Park
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magnify
glasses, goggles,
STEM: Build a house - Slot & Build Shapes, small/large red cups, popsicle
sticks, paper, pipe cleaners, toothpicks
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wooden blocks, large plastic blocks, cardboard
bricks
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Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family
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Grocery Store - sorting fruits and vegetables,
acting out various jobs: clerk, shopper, cashier, counting money
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Writing
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Library
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Art
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Literacy/Math
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Students
will independently select writing mediums to write, ink stamp, or dough stamp
words
Words:
Tracing Gingerbread cookies to houses
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Students will independently select literacy
strategies that support their learning during independent reading times-
arrival, centers & independent reading/conferring time
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Students will independently select own art
mediums for their creations
Decorating Foam Gingerbreads with colored puffy paint (50/50 glue &
shaving cream)
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Gingerbread Tracers Gingerbread ABCs Playdough
Print Concepts - I Went Walking
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Easel
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Sensory Table
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Rug/Music & Movement
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Brown
gingerbread cutouts, decorate with various colors of paint and small brushes
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Sand w/ mills and containers
Thursday: Bins cornstarch and water
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Stepping Stones
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Rotating Small Groups/Problems &
Investigations
Self Portraits
Pattern Block Snowflakes
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PM
Work Places
Gingerbread Houses - Centers
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Gingerbread Houses
Pattern Block Snowflakes
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Interactive Read Aloud
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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Book: The Gingerbread Baby
Standard: COG 8, COG 10, COG 13
Vocab: pranced, worn-looking, smug, meddling, brash,
Questions: Prediction-What do you think Matti made while the gingerbread baby
was running around town?
Prediction-Do you think the fox is going to catch the gingerbread baby?
Activity: Reading words from the story-cat, dog, pig, fox, milk, cheese
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Clifford's My Big
World
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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Book: The Gingerbread Cowboy
Standard: COG 8, COG 10, COG 11
Vocab: rancher, fringe, roadrunner, corral fence, javelinas, cactus pads,
grazing, canyon, lariat
Activity: Concepts of print.
How was The Gingerbread Cowboy the same as The Gingerbread Boy? How was The
Gingerbread Cowboy different than The Gingerbread Boy?
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Shared Reading
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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Day 1: 5 Yummy Gingerbread
Five yummy gingerbread,
Sitting on a plate.
The first one said,
"Boy we smell so great!"
The second one said,
"There's a chill in the air.
The third one said,
"I see hungry children everywhere!"
The fourth one said,
"I think we better run!"
The fifth one said,
"Here the children come!"
Then the children each grabbed one and with a
MUNCH, CRUNCH, MUNCH
The five yummy gingerbreads
All turned into lunch!
1. Literature Introduction.
What do you think it is going to be about? Why do you think I chose this
text?
2: First Read.
3: Reading Focus: Number ID.
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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Day 2: 5 Yummy Gingerbread
1. Second Read.
2. Reading Focus: Punctuation " " ! . Reading the text with finger.
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