I can read and understand a story by identifying characters and events, and by making personal connections.
I can use reading, writing, drawing, and sorting activities to share my ideas and thoughts.
I can collect, organize, and display information using pictures, symbols, and graphs.
I can create and interpret a glyph to show information about myself and our class.
I can design, build, and solve problems with others while counting, sorting, and graphing materials.
As we wrap up 2025, our class has been busy finishing our Gingerbread multi-curricular unit. It has been a wonderful way to bring learning together in a creative and engaging way. We enjoyed a week of holiday tunes, singing and dancing together as a whole school.
In Literacy, students rotated through a final set of gingerbread-themed centres. These included roll-and-draw activities to design their own gingerbread people, a reading and writing centre in which students filled in missing words, a character-sorting activity based on the story, and a read-and-reflect centre where students made personal connections to the text. These centres supported reading comprehension, sentence structure, vocabulary, and creative expression while allowing students to work independently and collaboratively.
In Math, students created a gingerbread glyph, a visual representation of information using symbols. Each feature of the gingerbread person (such as buttons, decorations, or colours) showed something specific about the student or their choices. We then used the glyphs to practice graphing, comparing and analyzing class data in a hands-on way.
Our final project brought everything together as students designed and built a gingerbread house that could stand independently. Once completed, students graphed and discussed the materials and candies used in their structures, reinforcing concepts of counting, sorting, and representing data.
