MRS. CLAUS' KITCHEN

MRS. CLAUS' KITCHEN

 



OUR GINGERBREAD FAMILY!

OUR GINGERBREAD FAMILY!

 

Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!

We have read several versions of the Gingerbread Man and the students decided that they wanted to create their own gingerbread house. They did some brainstorming and looked on the computer at different gingerbread houses and created a list of what we needed. Here is our "New Home"!

 

 

 

Creating candies to hang from the ceiling!!

 

 

"I am making a pattern; blue, red, blue, red, Just like a real candy!"

                                      

 

After reading: The Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Girl, we discussed what characters are and what was their role in stories. The students were asked to name the characters in each story and we sorted them onto the charts of the story they belonged to.

 

 The students noticed that some of the characters were the same in both books, so we decided to sort in a different way. We introduced the concept of a "Venn Diagram", where you can sort 2 things into how they are the same and how they are different (We used the characters from both stories).

 

SORTING UP A STORM!

To begin our introduction to the concept of sorting, I brought in my girls small socks and explained to the kids that my girls had trouble finding socks to put on before school and posed the question, "What could they do to be able to find socks to wear?" The students came up with the concept of putting the socks together that look the same, that way they could find pair of socks easily.

 

 

 

We placed two hula hoops on the ground and gave the students these pictures of food to sort. We explained that they could only sort these items into two groups and they needed to figure it out. After several different ideas and working through each situation, the students finally came up with the sorting rule: healthy food and junk food. We have some good debaters in the class, as we ended up having to create a group "in-between" because sometimes they can be healthy and sometimes not!

Our Sorting Song!

 



 

 

Can you guess our sorting rule?

 

 

 

At the end of our investigations, we asked the students...

"Why do we sort things?" (To see if they know why we were actually teaching them about it lol!). Here are some of our responses:

 

~ It's a way we can find stuff easily. - Kenzie

~ We put the toys in the toy bin. - Will

~ To find stuff. - Blake

~ To make everything cleaner. - Lyla

~ So everything is organized. - Kaleb

~ Because there's different colours of things and we can find the colours easier. - Brock

~ To organize. - Dylan

~ It's easy to find stuff then. - Tally



THE FIRST SNOW!!!

In November, the kids were so excited for the first snow of the year! We talked about all the things we do in the snow and one student said, "Eat it". We talked about the reasons why it's not a good idea to eat the snow, but many students didn't believe us as they said, "It's just frozen water". While outside we collected 3 bowls of fresh, untouched snow and brought it into the classroom. After an hour, the students discovered that the snow isn't as clean as they thought it was!