GINGERBREAD POEMS
GINGERBREAD POEMS
& SONGS
My students learn best through music and patterned language activities. Here are a few poems and songs that can be incorporated into the thematic unit. Copy the poems and songs on chart paper or on sentence strips for pocket charts. I use the songs and poems for literacy centers and reading activities throughout the unit.
GINGERBREAD CHILDREN
By: Ilo Orleans
Gingerbread children
Stand in a row--
Very good children
Always, you know.
They never will jump
Or kick or leap,
Or start to cry when
It's time to sleep
They never run off
Or look around
And no one has heard
Them make a sound.
Gingerbread children
Are fine to meet;
But, much better still,
They're good to eat.
THE MUFFIN MAN (SONG)
Do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
Do you know the muffin man
Who lives on gingerbread lane.
Yes, I know the muffin man,
the muffin man, the muffin man.
Yes, I know the muffin man
who lives on gingerbread lane.
We all know the muffin man,
the muffin man, the muffin man.
We all know the muffin man
who lives on gingerbread lane.
The Gingerbread Man Rap/Song
From: 28 Folk and Fairy Tale Poems and Songs
(sing to tune "Jimmy Crack Corn")
A baker took some gingerbread dough
And shaped a man from head to toe.
When it was baked, the cookie fled.
Here is what the cookie said:
CHORUS; Run! Run! As fast as you can!
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
I'm the gingerbread man!
The cookie man ran past a cow
Who saic, "I want to eat you now!"
The cookie man just laughed and fled.
Here is what the cookie said:
CHORUS
A farmer saw the man go by.
He chased him low, he chased him high
The cookie man just shook his head.
Here is what the cookie said:
CHORUS
He finally reached the river wide,
A fox asked, "Would you like a ride?"
The cookie sat on the fox's head,
Here is what the sly fox said:
"You can't run! That's my plan!
I'm going to eat you, gingerbread man!
You can't run" That's my plan!"
And he ate the gingerbread man.
This song/rap can also be found at: http:kinder.cmsd.bc.ca/kinder
The Gingerbread Man
(Tune: Wheels on the bus) The gingerbread man ran through the town, through the town, through the town. The gingerbread man ran through the town, singing, "You'll never catch me." He ran away from a /c/ /ow/, /c/ /ow/ He ran away from a cow, Singing, "You will never catch me."
He ran away from a /sh/ /ee/ /p/, /sh/ /ee/ /p/, /sh/ /ee/ /p/, He ran away from a sheep without a peep, Singing, "You will never catch me."
He ran away from a /d/ /o/ /g/ /d/ /o/ /g/ /d/ /o/ /g/, he ran away from a dog, Singing, "You will never catch me."
Then he came to a /f/ /o/ /x/ /f/ /o/ /x/, /f/ /o/ /x/, The fox sat on a box and said, "You can trust me" Then he ate him, yes sir - ee.
(From: Phonemic Awareness, Winter. CTP 2341)
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Gingerbread Boy
(tune: Muffin Man)
Oh, will you bake a gingerbread boy, A gingerbread boy, A gingerbread boy, Oh, will you bake a gingerbread boy Then put him in the oven.
Oh, will you eat the gingerbread boy, The gingerbread boy, The gingerbread boy, Oh, will you eat the gingerbread boy, Then take him out right now.
(From: More Piggyback Songs)
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Gingerbread
(Tune: Frere Jacques)
Gingerbread, Gingerbread, Yum, yum, yum, Yum, yum, yum. I like gingerbread, I like gingerbread, In my tum, In my tum,
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My Gingerbread Man
(tune: Beautiful Dreamer) Words: B. Sarah Froehlich My gingerbread man Where have you gone? Out of the oven before you were done. With two little legs you ran and you ran. Please come back to me little gingerbread man.
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