Our Christmas Party

 

 

We practiced and practiced to get our Gingerbread Man in the North Pole Reader's Theater JUST RIGHT.

 

The children did a wonderful job!  What smart boys and girls!

 

 

 

At the end of the day, I left the classroom like this.... ready for a good Christmas cleaning.  Lights off until the new year!

 

 

Hip-Hip Hooray for PJ Day!!

 

 

 

 

 

Santa's Milk and Cookies Experiment: Which cookie will float the longest in milk?

 

 

The sugar cookie was the first to sink.

 

 

Down went the oreo!  The chocolate chip cookie was the last to sink. 

We think the chocolate chip cookie has lots of air pockets between the chips and dough.  The air pockets give buoyancy to the cookie, allowing it to float.




We made yummy Santa hat snacks

 

 

 



More from Gingerbread Week!

Our busy bees worked together in groups to build gingerbread houses with NO ADULT HELP!!!  Everybody worked together with no arguing!!  I could not be more proud.

 

 

 

 

The busy bees are the best kids because they have the BEST PARENTS!!!  Thanks to our parent volunteers who helped us on ornament-making day!

 

 



 

 

Gingerbread Week

 

We are reading LOTS of variations of The Gingerbread Man and enjoying gingerbread activities this week. 

 

We made gingerbread play dough (it smells sooo good!!).  The Busy Bees asked me to post the recipe, so here's the one we used:

Gingerbread Play Dough

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 tbsp. ground ginger
1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 cup water

Mix together and knead until smooth.

We found that this recipe made very sticky dough, so we added cream of tarter until we got the texture that we wanted. 

 

 

 

By the way, this was our first day of outside recess since before Thanksgiving break!!  It has been raining for SO long!  Man, it was cold, but the Busy Bees sure were happy to be outside together.  Jack Frost must have painted our slide last night, because we found sheets of ice on that thing!