It has been gingerbread, gingerbread, gingerbread this week!
We have read about gingerbread men, gingerbread girls, ninjabread men, and even gingerbread cowboys!!
Students loved making connections between the books we were reading and looking for all the ways these books were the same and different! If you are at the library or bookstore this weekend, try looking for some gingerbread stories. Have your child tell you how your book compares to the ones we have been reading at school. Or...you could always pick up one of the classics and have your child practice retelling the story!
Reading about gingerbread was lots of fun, but we didn't stop there! We used what we heard the authors of our favorite gingerbread books do to begin creating our own gingerbread stories with a beginning, middle, and end! We had ninjabread men, gingerbread cowboys and cowgirls, gingerbread miners, and underwater gingerbread men. They were very cute and very creative!
We used gingerbread men to help us practice counting and numeral identification.
And we decided to help that poor gingerbread man find a better way to cross that river. Our gingerbread men didn't need to rely on a fox--they had a boat!! (The water looks icky because some gingerbread men didn't quite make it!)
We counted to see how long the gingerbread man lasted on the float before sinking! Check out our data! (We just stopped counting at 50.)
You know we couldn't go all week without tasting gingerbread!
Here's what we thought were the best bites!
Stay tuned for more gingerbread adventures next week!
In the meantime, check some of these links for more gingerbread fun at home!
The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Girl
The Gingerbread Cowboy
Thank you to everyone who donated materials for all our gingerbread fun!
