Gingerbread Unit - December 7-10

This week we will continue our Gingerbread Unit!
Books This Week:
The Gingerbread Man, By Jim Aylesworth
Small Groups:
Fine motor group - students will lace a gingerbread man and decorate him
Language - Students will make a Gingerbread book while learning prepositions. They will glue the gingerbread man in different positions relative to the fox!
Math - Students will play a game with big and small gingerbread men sorting them into the big and small gingerbread houses. They will also create their own pictures of big and small gingerbread men.
Art -
Students will make large construction paper gingerbread men for the hallway scene.
Students will make a stained glass ginerbread man for the window
Choice Time:
-Sensory Table- Color and shape buttons
- Games table - Gingerbread man color BINGO
-Library- Books about winter
-Easel - students can use water colors to paint gingerbread houses
-Dramatic Play - Students can create and fix toys in the tool shop
-Rug - Fliptrack mountain with trains and tracks
**Art table - We will begin learning about a new letter each week! This week we will learn about the letter "E". Students will glue elephants to decorate the letter "E" and save the picture to create an alphabet book.** Please look around your house with your child to find something that starts with the letter "E." Send it in this week for show and tell!
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Little gingerbread men
Gingerbread, Gingerbread
Oh Do you know the gingerbread man?
The gingerbread are here
5 Gingerbread cookies in the bakery shop