The Never Ending Week One!

We are off to a great start!  I don't know about the children but when I get home I am just wiped out!  I just want to sit in a quiet room and put my feet up!  Thankfully that is exactly what I am able to do!

This has been a week of getting to know each other and learning routines.  We are just barely scratching the surface of what we will be doing when we are what I consider up and running.  Even though most children have been in preschool before kindergarten, there are new rules, new routines, new playground, new friends and eating lunch in a big cafeteria.

Our three biggest hurdles this week have been leaving the cafeteria and walking back to the room quietly, cleaning up centers, and getting packed and ready to go home. Every day it gets a little better and I am sure in no time we will be sailing through our day!

Thankfully everyone seems to be adjusting pretty well.  I haven't had any major meltdowns and very few tears.  I have some wonderful little learners and I am so looking forward to seeing what they are capable of achieving this year!

We have been comparing different versions of the Gingerbread Man.

 

We started with a classic big book story

Then we discussed how the setting was different, but the fox still ate him at the end in this version.

Then we read another version.  This time the fox had a different way of tricking the Gingerbread Man.

 

We ended the day with this new version.  We discovered that in this book, the Gingerbread Man is chasing after the children and does not get eaten in the end!

Wednesday we made our big Gingerbread man and took him to the cafeteria to be baked but unfortunatley, he jumped out of the oven and ran away!  Today we checked in the library and in the clinic, but, all we found were the notes that he left behind.

Here we are getting the "bad news" that the Gingerbread Man has escaped.  I heard a couple of this is just make believe comments, but they weren't really sure and decided to play along to see what would happen...

So, we headed to the library to check with Mrs. Graph.  She told us she saw him but he ran away from her but he left another note for us.  Mrs. Graph read us the note and the clue sent us to the clinic.

The note he left in the clinic told us he would be in the office tomorrow.  We hope to catch him there!  Mr. Dragon and Mrs. Nations told us they would be on the lookout for him.

I love this activity at the beginning of the year.  It adds excitement to the first week and helps us learn our way around the school.  We also learn about folktales and different versions of stories.  It will also give us our first glimpse of Mr. Dragon's office.  Cross your fingers that we find him tomorrow and Mr. Dragon doesn't eat him first!