Grinch Day is Here!

On Thursday, the kindergarteners and I celebrated Grinch Day!  It was an entire day of Grinch-themed lessons, activities and green shirts.  We had so much fun!  We began our day by joining Ms. Demsky's 1st graders for a read aloud of Dr. Seuess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

We then made our own Who-Pudding (one of the things the Grinch stole in the book)!

Some of us even made Grinch faces!

Next, we had our Grinchy centers!  One of our favorite centers was "The Words the Grinch Stole."  This is where the kindergarteners used a clipboard to walk around the room and find hidden words with the Grinch's picture next to them to help us focus on print and continue to enhance our handwriting.  They loved that one!  We also did a double-dice roll and record Grinch sheet to practice our addition of two numbers! 

For writing, we created our own Grinch, and completed the sentence, "To make the Grinch grin I would..."  Some of their answers included giving him candy, pizza, hugs and presents, while others said they would tickle him or take him to the zoo.  KB really thought about what would make the Grinch grin - helping him steal Christmas so that he didn't have to do it alone!  That is a real friend!

We also created patterns using different shapes and colors from the Grinch book.  We have been practicing using attributes like size, shape and color to make more difficult patterns.

One of our most fun centers was run by Ms. Brooks.  She helped us play pin the heart on the Grinch!

We also had some special visitors.  Ms. Ritter and her fourth graders surprised us by stopping by and caroling for us!  Karima was especially excited to see her big sister!  We loved singing along to our favorite holiday songs!

Not only did some of us see the Grinch hiding in the village area during lunch, but we also caught the Gingerbread Man!  He told us that if we let him "run, run as fast as he could," he would give us a present.  When we came back from recess, we found gingerbread cookies waiting for us to decorate, with green frosting to make the cookies look like the Grinch!

We ended the day watching the classic cartoon version of the Grinch.  As a last treat, we all enjoyed some candy canes.  But these were special candy canes...they had turned green because the Grinch had licked each one! 

What an incredible day!  You may be a "mean one, Mr. Grinch," but you helped us have a wonderful day of learning and laughing! 

Thank you to Ms. Brooks and Ms. Steele for helping us in the morning!