Gingerbread, Gingerbread, Gingerbread!

Over the past few weeks, we have been very busy reading, playing, creating, baking and acting everything gingerbread.  To start our learning we read many versions of the classic story The Gingerbread Man. We noticed many similarities and differences. Everyone thought it was funny how the characters in the story kept yelling to stop running because they wanted to eat the gingerbread man.  If we were that cookie, we would not stop running if someone was going to eat us.  As a class we came up with different things we could say to persuade the gingerbread man to come to our house instead.

Adding lights to our classroom gingerbread house.

We measured gingerbread men with different materials.

We brainstormed and wrote about who we thought the gingerbread man would run away from.  We are getting very good at writing down some of the sounds we hear in words.

 We made our very own gingerbread houses.  We had to follow criteria we created as a class.

We all loved acting out the story.  (The gingerbread man is just about to get eaten by that devious fox!)

We even got to bake our very own gingerbread cookies to eat. 

After to cookies were finished baking, we went to check the oven. To our surprise the cookies were missing.  We had to go on a big hunt around the school and read clues to try to find where our cookies had gone.  In the end, we did find our cookies and they were delicious.

As we were eating our gingerbread cookies there was a lot of talk about what "really" happened.  Here is what some of us had to say:

Brody  -  "Mrs. Vincent or Landen must have peeked in the oven,"

Avery  -  "It might have been Mrs. L."

Marlow - "They pushed their way out of the oven."

Mathew - "Mrs. Rogala peeked."

Tristan R.- "The two girls in the office did it."

Hudosn - "I know they ran away because the oven was too hot."

Landen - "We are just like the fox."

Jayden - "They laid down and then they just started running like we did yesterday."

Loralai - "Mrs. Rosin peeked and then they just popped out."