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	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
R & S

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
T & U

Opening Circle

Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs

Discussion:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
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?		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?

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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.

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

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.

Second Step (Emily & Emilio)

Week: 11 Accidents

Concepts:

·         An accident is when you do something you didn’t mean to do.

·         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	Blocks	Dramatic Play	Theme Park
magnify glasses, goggles, STEM: Build a house - Slot & Build Shapes, small/large red cups, popsicle sticks, paper, pipe cleaners, toothpicks	wooden blocks, large plastic blocks, cardboard bricks	Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family	Grocery Store - sorting fruits and vegetables, acting out various jobs: clerk, shopper, cashier, counting money
Writing	Library	Art	Literacy/Math
Students will independently select writing mediums to write, ink stamp, or dough stamp words Words: Tracing Gingerbread cookies to houses	Students will independently select literacy strategies that support their learning during independent reading times- arrival, centers & independent reading/conferring time	Students will independently select own art mediums for their creations Decorating Foam Gingerbreads with colored puffy paint (50/50 glue & shaving cream)	Gingerbread Tracers Gingerbread ABCs Playdough Print Concepts - I Went Walking
Easel	Sensory Table	Rug/Music & Movement
Brown gingerbread cutouts, decorate with various colors of paint and small brushes	Sand w/ mills and containers Thursday: Bins cornstarch and water	Stepping Stones

Rotating Small Groups/Problems & Investigations

Self Portraits Pattern Block Snowflakes

PM Work Places Gingerbread Houses - Centers

Gingerbread Houses Pattern Block Snowflakes

Interactive Read Aloud

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
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		Clifford's My Big World

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
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?

Shared Reading

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
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.

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Day 2: 5 Yummy Gingerbread 1. Second Read. 2. Reading Focus: Punctuation " " ! . Reading the text with finger.