Kindergarten at Home - Day 17 - Mustache Cookies + Learning Numbers with Games

Lesson 1 - Language Arts - Rhyming + The Gingerbread Man story.
Both the kids had fun doing workbook exercises (pretty easy, mostly for fun) to reinforce rhyming.  Then, I read the story, The Gingerbread Man, and had the kids answer questions about the story: who is the main character; what was the sequence of events; which animal did the Gingerbread man meet first, etc.  My daughter colored pictures of Gingerbread people while I read.

Then, it was time to Positively Practice Penciling Pp's, Preserving Proper Penmanship

Lesson 2 - Math: Greater Than, Less Than.  We did workbooks, and then a game (see Lesson 3) to help her remember the concepts of "greater than", and "less than".

Lesson 3 - Active Activities & Games: Greater Than, Less Than.  We went outside and made up our own game incorporating both our new Math concepts and the Gingerbread Man story!  I drew chalk squares outside on the driveway with numbers randomly written in each one.  I had the kids each start on a number square, then, I asked them to jump to a number that is Greater Than he number they are standing on, then at the next number, I'd ask them to jump to a number that is Less Than. When they jumped, they had to say "Jump, jump, as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!" 

Lesson 4 - Kindergarten Activities - Making Gingerbread Sugar Cookies (and other shapes).  To tie in with the Gingerbread Man story, we were going to make Gingerbread people cookies, but then I remembered that the kids don't care for the flavor of Gingerbread, so we switched to Sugar Cookies (otherwise they'd all end up in the scraps we feed to the chickens).  The kids had fun practicing measuring ingredients and taking turns mixing and rolling the dough.  We also made cookie mustaches!  Those are always a hit!  Which style are you feeling today: Handlebar, Biker, or maybe a Walrus?