As the holiday season approaches, we will be learning about familiar holiday traditions and symbols from countries around the world. We began our journey to Europe and learned that gingerbread and Christmas trees originated in here, specifically in Germany.
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| Preparing for take off! |
We read one of our new favorite stories,
The Gingerbread Man! We measured our gingerbread men, retold the story (several times) compared and contrasted different versions, and of course sang a song!
Did you know Christmas trees originated in Germany? Integrating math into our theme, we compared lengths of paper to create these awesome trees!
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Avery compared the lengths of the
strips to create this awesome tree! |
Another project we created was a “reindeer peek” picture. We read (and sang!) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and then pretended we were Santa’s famous reindeer. We “peeked” into the window and wrote things we would see around the holidays.
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| Noah the Reindeer can see an elf and presents! |
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| Jacob the Reindeer can see a dreidel and a candy cane! |
We visited Mexico and learned about poinsettias. As we travel to each country, we are recording what we’re learning in our travel logs!
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| Sawyer’s beautiful poinsettia! |
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| Eliza recorded what we learned in her travel log! Great writing! |
Everyone is doing a wonderful job with the math homework! They are learning more about reading ten frames and place value! Here are a few math center activities we worked on this week.
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| Base ten fun! (Place value in Kindergarten!) |
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| Building numbers using base ten. 1 tower of ten and 5 ones =15! |
