Kwanzaa

In addition to learning about Christmas we are also focusing on learning about how different cultures celebrate during the holidays in December. Last week we learned about Kwanzaa. Here is a picture of our kinara.

Gingerbread Men Math Fun

Today in class during math time we created a Gingerbread Man Glyph. Each part of the glyph is specific to each child. They were asked 3 simple questions, and had to answer each one. To change things up a bit we painted each part of the glyph onto our own gingerbread man. My class was AWESOME!! Everyone shared, and waited paitently for their turn to use the paint.
Here are the parts of the glyph: If they were a boy they had a blue nose, a girl a pink nose. The buttons represented thier age (either 5 or 6), and the stripes represented if they liked or disliked gingerbread. If they liked it they had red striped, if they did not they had green striped. After we created our glpyh we constructed a real object graph.