Happy Holidays!

Today Ms. Maura came to visit to teach us how to play the Dreidel game. 

a) Nun means “nisht” or “nothing.” The player does nothing.

b) Gimel  means “gantz” or “everything.” The player gets everything in the pot.

c) Hey means “halb” or “half.” The player gets half of the pot. (If there is an odd number of pieces in the pot, the player takes half of the total plus one).

d) Shin (outside of Israel) means “shtel” or “put in.” Peh (in Israel) also means “put in.” The player adds a game piece to the pot.

5. If you find that you have no game pieces left, you are either “out” or may ask a fellow player for a “loan.”

6. When one person has won everything, that round of the game is over!

Next, we opened our gifts. Ms. Raymond loved all of the thoughtful and generous gifts! Thank you! 

The kids loved their Gingerbread bears and books! 

Our attempt at a class selfie! 

Graphing our tree brownie snacks and "grinch kabobs". 

We had a great day together. Happy Holidays and I hope everyone has a wonderful Winter break! 

Wednesday

We spent some time today getting ready for the holidays! We painted gift bags, made cards for special teachers and our big partners and then wrapped all our gifts. 

Mrs. Jarvis shared her puppets with us at choice time. 

Kindergarten holiday crafts

We had an awesome time making holiday gifts for our families. 

In our class, we used ABAB patterns to make beaded candy cane ornaments. 

Pattern block holiday puzzles

We had so much fun this morning using pattern blocks to make holiday designs. We were so proud of our creations and really know the names of our shapes now!! 

Kindergarten team morning meeting

The whole Kindergarten team joined us in our classroom to have a gingerbread themed morning meeting. We used stuffed gingerbread men to greet each other, sang our gingerbread songs and played Hidey Gingey. It was so much fun! 

A gingerbread kind of day

We had a very busy gingerbread kind of day. 

We began our day with our big partners and decorated our gingerbread cookies together. Yum! 

Then, we got to try some ginger tea that Ms. Casry's class made with Ms. Laura. Most of us liked it. 

After lunch, we got a letter from the gingerbread man who sent us on a fun hunt around the school. 

We visited the gym to find our first clue. 

Then we had to go to look in the office and Mrs. Utter gave us the next clue. Mr. Hamel had a clue for us in the music room too!

Nurse Betty and Bertha had clues for us too! 

All of the clues led us back to our classroom where we found a treat was left for us by the gingerbread man. 

We finished our day by performing at the Celebration of learning assembly. Oh, we made these cool gingerbread hats too! 

Gingerbread house is done!

We finished decorating the gingerbread house. We are ready for a visit from the gingerbread man.