December 8th - 12th, 2025: Gingerbread!

Happy Friday, Firefly Families!

This week we did all things GINGERBREAD! We created and decorated our own gingerbread people and made a fun gingerbread house in the reading arch by painting on fluffy "icing" and gluing on homemade candies, made gingerbread playdough, responded to the journal prompt, "Where did your gingerbread baby run?", measured holiday items with gumdrops, and went on a gingerbread number hunt around the classroom where we had to match numeral to quantity. Our favorite part of the week (by far!) was making and decorating gingerbread cookies! Everyone loved them--yum! We read the books The Gingerbread Girl, Gingerbread Baby, Gingerbread Friends, The Gingerbread Mouse and the "Five Little Gingerbread" poem. We also read our "Holiday Traditions" book together as a class and each Firefly got to talk about their family's special traditions--everyone loved sharing! Our Handwriting Without Tears letter of the week was R.

"Five Little Gingerbread"

Five little gingerbread, lying on a tray.

One jumped up and ran away!

Shouting, "Catch me! Catch me! Catch me if you can!

I'm really quick, I'm the gingerbread man!" (repeat counting down)

Reminders:

*Firefly Winter Party & LECC Pajama Day: Thursday, December 18th @ 11 am

*Winter Break: 1/2 Day Friday, December 19th through Monday, January 5th (we'll see you on Tuesday the 6th!)

Here are some fun pictures from our week!

Rolling out the dough for gingerbread cookies!

Practicing some holiday words

Making peppermints for 

our gingerbread house

Andrew finished the gingerbread puzzle!

Measuring holiday items with gum drops!

Doing yoga with Miss Stacy for her birthday!

We cut out and decorated gingerbread babies!

Gingerbread "roll and write" with letters

Making gingerbread babies in our playdough!

Decorating our gingerbread cookies! YUM!

Working on our holiday gifts...

Friday fun!

Our gingerbread house :)

Number writing practice for the 

question of the day!

Coming Up Next Week: More gingerbread and holiday traditions--like Hanukkah and Christmas! We are excited for our guests and Winter party!

Have a lovely weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi

December 1st - 5th, 2025: Families!

Happy Friday, Firefly Families!

This week we had fun starting to talk about our families, who makes up a family and how they are all different. We cut out and decorated houses and added our family picture, made a graph to see how many people were in our families, wrote in our journals about why we love our families, and practiced writing our last names. We read the books The Family Book, This is Our House, Come Over to My House, A Family is a Family is a Family and One Family. Our Handwriting Without Tears letter of the week was B.

Reminders:

*Don't forget to return your Firefly's Holiday Traditions page ASAP! We have most but are missing a few families. We are making a book and would love to send it home with each Firefly to read with their families. We want to be inclusive of everyone's unique traditions and talk about them in class.

*LECC Pajama Day & Firefly Winter Party: Thursday, December 18th @ 11 am--more details TBA!

*Winter Break!: 1/2 day Friday, December 19th - Tuesday, January 6th, 2025 (school resumes Tuesday the 6th)

Check out our fun pictures from the week!

                                                       

Our Firefly neighborhood!

We even added our families inside ;)

Fun in the snow on Friday!

We drew our families!

Last name practice

Working on our houses

Our new friend Myles who is a Firefly on Mondays!

SNOW!

How many people in your family?

We love Music Class with Miss Li!

We had fun talking about families!

"Kindergarten" name practice (titlecase)

HWT letter of the week--B!

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Coming Up Next Week: Gingerbread!

Have a great weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi