Happy Friday-eve. Can we say exhausted?!? And after I write this post, I am going to make gingerbread cookies for the monsters to decorate tomorrow. OK, not real “gingerbread” because, um that recipe is complicated. I found this great new invention called Icing Creations. You buy an icing starter (fancy name for tub of icing!) and a seasoning packet. I bought gingerbread. So we have gingerbread shaped cookies with gingerbread flavored icing. It works. Now, I have to embark on this baking endeavor alone. Help! If I don’t post a blog tomorrow, I probably burned down the house or the gingerbread men got the best of me! I am pretty confident that the kindergarten smorgasboard is going to be a hot mess after this adventure with cookie dough!
Yesterday and today we have been working on measurement! My monsters have really gotten into measuring things so I’ve tried to find way to keep them engaged and learning! If they like it, keep doing it! RIGHT?! So measurement….and who doesn’t love CANDY! That’s right, we’ve been using candy to measure. And since this is our big gingerbread week, we’ve been measuring gingerbread!
Yesterday, we measured how big our pictures were. We had a great discussion about starting at the top of the picture and placing our candy side by side all the way to the bottom of the picture.
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