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| Gingerbread Unit |
| Jan Brett has added a make your own gingerbread house to her site. The kids can click and drag items to add to a house and print it out. It's really cute. She also has some other neat holiday projects to check out. |
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| Gingerbread Math |
| We learned two new terms in math: area and perimeter. We're been doing informal measurement in science so we continued in math. We worked in small groups and measured the area and perimeter of a small gingerbread with mini marshmallows, red hots, and raisins. I don't have any photos of us doing the activity but you can see the food on our desk! |
| Gingerbread Stories |
| We read many versions of the Gingerbread Man. As a class we filled in a large graphic organizer comparing the titles, characters, repeated sayings and the endings. Then the children filled in their own graphic organizer for writing their own version of the story. Once the stories were written and edited the children rewrote their stories on gingerbread paper. After the stories were illustrated they were read to the class. The children did a great job! |
| Gingerbread Cooking |
| Gingerbread Reading |
| We practiced our reading skills by reading gingerbread poetry. |
| One of the activities that was the most fun was making gingerbread cookies. We read the recipe and discussed the importance of accurate measurements. We also reviewed fractions. Not only was it fun it also made the room smell delicious. After taking the first bite of our cookies we completed a graph about which body part we ate first! |
| Gingerbread Houses |
| Our fun project for the Christmas party was making gingerbread houses out of milk cartons, graham crackers, frosting and lots of candy! Thank you for sending in all the supplies. |
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| Working on our gingerbread graph. |
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