Run, Run As Fast As You Can!

This past week, we did a book study on the different versions of The Gingerbread Man. We read several versions of The Gingerbread Man and charted the characters, setting, and beginning, middle, and end of the story. These story elements are all in our kindergarten standards and this was a fun way to learn more about them!

On Friday, we decorated our own Gingerbread Boy.

We went to the bathroom to wash our hand to get ready to enjoy our hard work and when we got back to the room...HE WAS GONE!!!!

Where could he be??

He was nice enough to leave us a clue!

Then, he led us on a hunt around the whole school. People saw him here and there, but we only found crumbs and candy and clues that he left for us.


We had to be very quiet and tip toe so that he would not hear us coming to look for him...


The last clue he left was outside on the tree. BRRRR...it was cold!

He told us that he left a surprise for us in the room.

We sent Mrs. Cass in first to check out the room before we went in. She told us that she had to use her karate moves on him...:)

When we came in, he was all chopped up! He was YUMMY!



It was a great day! We had so much fun chasing after the Gingerbread Boy, but we still wonder how he came alive and is he still running around Dug Gap Elementary!

The Very First Thanksgiving

Each year, DGE Kindergarten puts on a production of The Very First Thanksgiving. The students did a wonderful job of acting and singing to remind us about the first Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims and Indians. I think we may have some future actors and actresses in our classroom.

Thanksgiving Feast

We had fun celebrating Thanksgiving like the Pilgrims and the Indians did. We dressed up, made placemats, and ate food that we thought they might have eaten at the very first Thanksgiving meal. We had turkey, nuts, berries, bread, popcorn, and apple pie. Yummy!

DGE celebrates Veteran's Day

November 11th was a special day at DGE. We honored our veterans with a special program. The chorus sang, soldiers from the Army Reserve presented to us the correct way to fold a flag and explained to us what each fold represents, and our school was presented a flag that was flown on the USS Sterrett! Then, we went outside to watch our new flag being raised in front of the school. It was an amazing day!



Watching our new flag being raised...

Some of our own family members are veterans and they came to share a special lunch with us.


Our own, Mr. Gerald is a veteran. We love you Mr. Gerald! Thank you for everything you do for us!

Scarecrows

With signs of fall all around, we have been appreciating the season with studying about things that we see around fall time. Last week, we studied about scarecrows. We made a classroom scarecrow, which we named Edward. As a class, we wrote about our scarecrow. Then, each student helped make their own scarecrow so that they could use it in a descriptive writing. They wrote about their scarecrows...what color eyes, buttons, patches, etc. that it displayed. We had so much fun studying about scarecrows and we are still enjoying having Edward be a part of our class!


Mrs. Cass, our ESOL teacher, helped us label the parts of a scarecrow.

Here we are making our classroom scarecrow.

This is our interactive classroom writing on Edward.

Then we wrote about our own scarecrow that we helped design.

Fall Party 2009

What better way to celebrate fall than with a party?!? We made creepy witch hands, spooky spiders, scary ghosts, painted our faces, and played pin-the-nose on the pumpkin!! Can you say FUN?? Thank you to all the parents who came and made it possible. We couldn't have done it without you! The kids had so much fun and I think the adults did too!

Our wonderful families who came to help...THANK YOU!!!

 

PARTY FUN!!

 

Our Classroom Jack-O-Lantern

We had fun making a classroom jack-o-lantern. Everyone stuck their hands in and felt the yucky insides...ewwww! We baked the seeds and tasted them. Some of us really like them and some didn't. Here is a picture of it. Isn't it cute!

 

Be Cool About Fire Safety!

We also got to visit Fire Station #8. Firefighter Chris Dempsey taught us some important fire safety tips. We got to look at the firetruck and hear the siren. It was really loud! Thank you Fire Station #8 for letting us visit you!

My Birthday Buddy...we got to celebrate our birthdays with a field trip!

CiCi's Pizza

On Thursday, we went on a field trip to CiCi's Pizza. We learned how to make our own pizza and then we got to eat it. YUMMY!! Thank you CiCi's Pizza for letting our Kindergarten classes visit you!

Red Ribbon Week

Dug Gap is celebrating Red Ribbon Week!

Tuesday was Hands Off Drugs Day. We wore our gloves to school to say that we are keeping our hands off drugs!


Wednesday was Put a Cap on Drugs Day.

Friday was Sock it to Drugs Day. We wore CRAZY socks to school.