The Gingerbread Boy

What an exciting day in Kindergarten!  We could not wait to go to the cafeteria and pick up our special gingerbread snack.

When we arrived, we asked Mrs. Hansen if we could have our snack.  Only one problem…it ran away!

Now we had a problem.  But one thing we have learned already in Kindergarten is that when we have a problem, we need to solve it.  We got to work!

   

We asked Mrs. Putz if she had seen it, and she told us it ran past her classroom.  That gingerbread boy was not following the All Star Code!  (you know, the one that says Be Responsible.  Be Respectful.  Be safe.)  It's not very responsible or safe to run in school.  Next we stopped by Ms. Elsen's class.  They said they saw it running past their room and it had a silver tray on it's back!

We were hungry so we had to keep looking!  Our next stop was the school office.

 We checked with Gaby and Karen in the office.  They said it wasn't there but it sure whizzed past quickly in the hall!

The school nurse, Mrs. Hannasch, did not see it at all!  It must have been running really fast.

We even checked in the school media center…no luck!  We were a little frustrated, but we decided NOT to give up!  We headed back to our room quietly so we would not scare it away.  Just before we got there, we found it in Mr. Ball's office…right across the hall from our room.  We think it might have been there because Mr. Ball had Tootsie Rolls on his desk…maybe he wanted a snack!

   

 Whew!  We didn't give up and we found him.  After a nice group photo...

and one with our silly faces...

as our friend Breckin said, "We were like the foxes.  We ate it!"  And we did.  It was delicious!

   

More Gingerbread Cooking Photos

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The Gingerbread Boy

Today was an exciting day in Kindergarten.  Ms. Kieltyka read us an awesome story called "The Gingerbread Boy" by Paul Galdone.  We learned that stories have characters and that characters can be people and they can be animals!  We made a list of all the characters in the story.

  

Now all this talk about gingerbread made us really hungry, so we decided to make our own class gingerbread boy.  Before you can start cooking, you need some instructions, or a recipe to follow.  The recipe also told us what ingredients we would need to make this.

Then we got to work.  We added the ingredients...

…and everyone helped to stir the batter.  Round and round, 1, 2, 3. A gingerbread boy I soon will be!

Next it was time to create the gingerbread boy.  We did the best we could!

We took our gingerbread boy to the kitchen because we don't have an oven in our classroom.  We asked Mrs. Hansen, one of the lunchroom ladies, really nicely, if she could please cook our gingerbread boy.  She said YES!  We also asked her to watch it closely because in the story, the gingerbread boy ran away.  We don't think that would really happen, but just in case!

We can't wait to have a special gingerbread treat tomorrow!

Welcome to Kindergarten at Northview!

We are off and running in Kindergarten!  We are so busy learning lots of new routines and rules about being in school, meeting new friends and our classroom community.  We have learned so much already but still have lots more to learn!

Breakfast and lunch routines have been a little tricky, but they are going very well.  We also managed to get some work in…we colored a certificate for the first day of school and we did some guided discovery with our connecting cubes.

  

  

 Today we learned about our Morning Message.  Each day we have a message that consists of the date, a greeting, a message telling us what day it is and something we will be doing.  The message ends with "Make it a great day!" and a signature from Mrs. Kurt.  Here is a sample:

We have a big day planned for tomorrow.  Be sure to check out our blog to see what we are up to!

Welcome to the Class of 2027

Welcome to the Class of 2027!!

It has been so fun to meet my new class of kindergarten students and their families in the past couple of weeks.  Our assessment days, orientation meeting and open house were all a huge success!  Thanks for taking the time to come and meet our new Northview community.

I have already made a few changes in our classroom space.  I was able to get new tables after open house so with the help of Mr. Ball and Mr. Gibson (our custodians) and Mrs. Putz (first grade teacher), I was able to get our new space ready.  I love it and I think you will, too!

 

I hope you all have a safe, relaxing weekend.  I can't wait to get started on Tuesday morning.  See you soon!