Our fun with the book The Gingerbread Man continues. We have read a few versions of the traditional tale and then branched out into some fractured tales. We read The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and acted out the story with puppets. We read the sequel Gingerbread Friends too. Finally, we read The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School. We compared the different versions for similarities and differences.
We estimated and then measured ourselves to see how many gingerbread cookies tall we were.
Students have been rolling and making 'cookies' with the gingerbread playdough.
The kids voted to have a gingerbread house rather than a Christmas tree for the classroom. Thank you to Miss Annie and Gabi for creating this awesome 5' x 5' structure. The gingerbread house was a huge hit, so much so we had to limit entrance to 4 students at a time. They enjoyed reading together in there, making crafts, building and just hanging out together.
This week we made gingerbread cookies, rolling out the dough and cutting them out. Then using a straw we created faces and buttons, etc. We baked them during recess but while they were cooling, the gingerbread cookies got up and ran away. We followed clues throughout the school, looking high and low, searching for crumbs, trying to smell gingerbread, and finally found where the cookies were hiding. We decided to eat them before they ran away for good!
