This week was FULL of exciting events in Kindergarten! First, we started off the week with a dissection of a lynx as a capstone to our body unit. Most of the kids were SUPER interested... a few hung back a bit, but everyone participated and did great! We saw first hand the muscles, bones, tendons, nerves, veins, heart, liver, stomach, intestines and more! I was so impressed with what the kids remembered!
We also had a fun visitor... Morgan used his Pet Shop prize card to introduce us to his adorable puppy, Batman!
The kids made Santa's beard Christmas Countdown pictures. They should have brought home 25 cotton balls and a glue stick, so they can stick one cotton ball on a number each day until Christmas! (The cotton balls came home in two installments... :) Everyone should have 25 by now.
We went Gingerbread Crazy this week!!! We read 5 different gingerbread stories, and the kids had so much fun comparing the different stories! We learned about Venn Diagrams, we did a gingerbread hundreds chart mystery picture, some more gingerbread math, and practiced retelling and sequencing. (And they thought they were just having fun with gingerbread :) ).
OK, I realize it looks like an alien. But it is supposed to be a gingerbread man.
Our cabin was transformed into a Gingerbread House!!!
The BEST part of the week was on Friday, when we made gingerbread cookies!
And despite our best efforts, and even a SIGN on the oven door, SOMEONE must have peeked because when we went to go back and get our cookies... they were GONE! But they luckily had left us a clue! We ran to the cafeteria,
to our Book Buddies' room, and followed still more clues...
to the Front Office, (Where Ms. Diana said they had come through to have their temperatures checked and get masks and visitor passes...).
We FINALLY found them in our Gingerbread cabin in our room! Those crazy cookies!
We quickly shut the door so they couldn't escape, and had a blast decorating them!
If you can believe it... this day got even MORE exciting when we wrote letters to Santa! Mr. Larrabee happened to stop by, and when he saw what we were doing, he brought down the Automatic Letter Folding Machine from the front office! Now our letters were perfectly folded in less than a second, put in an envelope addressed to Santa, and then mailed in the magic mailbox outside of our room. I think you could have lit up all of Tok for days if we could have found a way to harness all of the excitement in the room! We are hoping to hear back from Santa's elves by next week!
Christmastime in Kindergarten is pretty magical! Oh, one last exciting thing that happened this week. We recorded our Christmas Concert on Friday! It is now in Tok School Studios getting the final edits put on and I will let you know when the link will be available to the Public for a sneek peek, before it goes viral. :)
Other exciting events coming up: Wed. Dec. 9th has been designated as official Ugly Christmas Sweater Day. Friday, Dec. 11 is Christmas Around the World Day. AND... we will be honored with a visit from SANTA CLAUS on Dec. 14th from 5-6:30! There will be a sign up on the school Facebook page so that we can socially distance and keep to our family groups.
