The Bakery is Closed!

Our holiday baking, theme center is now closed.   However, we had a lot of fun learning our new vocabulary words while playing in it.  Over the course of the month, we made cookie dough, we rolled it out so that we could make cut-out cookies and even baked many batches of gingerbread cookies.  (And we did these with both real and pretend dough!)

The preschoolers even boxed up their cookies & sent them to friends and family members.   Of course, they had to dress up like mailmen & deliver the cookies as well.  Then, some days, we sold the cookies that we made to our friends.  The bakers were even nice enough to bag them up so that we could take them home.  The language in this unit was so fun we "ate" it up all month!

We even used play dough that smelled like gingerbread to make ornaments for our family members. Then we cut out our letters and many other cool shapes.  The flour sensory table was the perfect place to practice measuring, scooping and pouring our ingredients.  It was messy, but worth it!

But, our favorite thing each day was to find the gingerbread man.  He kept hiding all around the room.  One day, he even got loose in the school and we had to track him down.

We'll miss all of the fun in the bakery, but we can't wait to see what's coming up next month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mad Scientist Lab comes to Preschool!

The Mad Scientist Lab came to our Preschool class!  It was so much fun.  First, we found out that you can mix the primary colors together to make the different colors of the rainbow.  Then, we watched the professionals mix liquids into different colors.  Last was our favorite part, when we were able to mix our very own primary colors in a ziplock bag.  We even turned our color mixing experiment into a beautiful sun catcher to hang on our window at home.  It was a blast!

 

 

 

 

 

Run, run as fast as you can...you'll see amazing artwork!

 

 

 

 

 

Gingerbread/Baking & Holidays

Our new theme for the month of December is Gingerbread/Baking and Holidays!  So, we said goodbye to our forest & hello to our new bakery!  The bakery has a brick oven as well as a triple set of ovens to use!  The preschoolers have been measuring the ingredients, mixing the dough/batter and making all sorts of baked goods.  It makes me hungry, just thinking about it!  :)

This week we will be reading the stories of, The Gingerbread Man by Paragon books,  The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst, The Gingerbread Mouse by Katy Bratun, The Gingerbread Bear by Robert Dennis & Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.  These other stories are adaptations of the original folktale & are a fun twist for the preschoolers.  We focused on the Gingerbread's chant during the story & are also singing a version of this chant as well:  "Run, run, as fast as you can.  You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"