Group Meeting:  Today was the 50th day of school.  We counted 50 stickers that we have put on our 10 frame counting chart.  It seems like we just started school, doesn't it?
The Gingerbread Man was back today and brought us game boards.  To play the game, the children had to roll the dice and count the gum drops.  The first one to the gingerbread house is the winner.

Story:  The story for today was The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray.  In this story, a classroom of children made a gingerbread man.  They take him from the oven and leave him on the table to cool while they go to recess.  However, the gingerbread man doesn't know that they will be coming back.  He thinks that they are leaving him behind.  He searches the school and meets the gym coach, the nurse, the art teacher and the principal.  Ask your child to tell you if he ever finds the children.

Small Groups:  The children played a game called Count the Room.  Each child was given a paper that had various Christmas characters on it.  They had to find those characters in pictures that I placed on the walls in the classroom.  They counted how many characters were on the picture and printed that number on their paper.  The numbers were already there, they had to trace them.

Large Group:  The children learned a song that we will be singing in the Christmas program.

Snacks:  The morning class snack was apples and cheese sticks brought by Sawyer.  The afternoon snack was cheese sticks and Wheat Thins brought by Nolan.  Thank you, Sawyer and Nolan!