Pre-K: Gingerbread Fun! Week of December 2-5 2025

Dear PreK Families,

We returned from our Thanksgiving break full of energy for our short week at school!  It was a festive and productive week for all of us! Our unit this week was Gingerbread—and it was filled to the brim with literacy, math, and science—all related to the sweet-smelling baked good. Speaking of that, our room was filled with the warm gingerbread cake that we made and baked for snack on Friday. Most everyone loved it!

All through the week, we read different versions of the classic Gingerbread Boy tale, (Gingerbread Man, Gingerbread Girl, Gingerbread Cowboy, Gingerbread Bear, Gingerbread Baby, and the Ninjabread Man) were all included. As we read them, we compared different characters and plots of each story.  Who ate the gingerbread cookie and how?  With the help of the children, we plotted a comparison chart as we compared stories.  We found many similarities and differences!  We imagined eating a gingerbread cookie ourselves and which part we would bite first!

In Art this week, we created snowflakes to decorate for our upcoming Holiday Show.  We also created gingerbread cookie shapes, glued many festive decorations on our gingerbread shapes and decorated our classroom with them.   We also painted gingerbread cookie prints with q-tips to strengthen our fine motor development.   

In Science we planted a few Paper White bulbs to watch them grow.  We know that soil, water and sunlight will support our plant’s growth.  We will be scientists and look for change every day as we watch these grow in our classroom!

We are excited to share that preparing for the Holiday Show is well underway! The children are learning the songs quickly and are really enjoying our practices. 

Other highlights this week:

  • PK Library Trip on Wednesday (thanks to Madison and Olivia O’s mom as well as Mila’s mom for coming along to help us enjoy this outing). 
  • Music with Miss Elaine (on Thursday)
  • Roll the dice and color project on the Skills Table
  • Gingerbread Playdough (rolling and cutting gingerbread cookies out of playdough)
  • Gingerbread House letter-hiding game (Write the room ABC’s)
  • Math bag from Trip and Alexis … Outstanding!

Warmest regards, 

Miss Jan, Miss Dana, and Miss Karen