Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Gingerbread and New Author of the Month

We started our gingerbread unit this week and the girls have done a variety of activities with the books such as retelling a story and comparing two versions using a Venn diagram.  So far we have read The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, and Gingerbread Friends.  We will continue to read and compare the different versions of this story.




Our new STAR presented her box on Monday and the girls were impressed with the details on her box.


We have a new Author of the Month in Pre-First.  She is from the land down under, she was raised in Africa, and is one of the best known authors in Australia.....she is Mem Fox!  The girls were excited to learn about our new author.  Today we read Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild and the girls discussed character development.  Make sure you ask your daughter what Harriet was like in the book.