Gingerbread Man

This past week we learned all about the Gingerbread Man! We read many different versions of The Gingerbread Man and compared what was the same and what was different. The students also got to create their own ending to the story in a creative writing/drawing.  I will upload a video of this soon!

The first activity we did focused on our five senses.  The kids helped me fill in this gingerbreads fives senses and then they got to make their own!

Hear: Jingle Bells

See: Googly Eyes

Smell: Cotton ball with perfume on it

Taste: Peppermint

Touch: Tissue Paper

We read the book Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett. In this version of The Gingerbread Man, the gingerbread man doesn’t get eaten but instead finds a gingerbread house with more gingerbread people! To illustrate this, we made our own gingerbread houses. We outlined the house with white crayon and then used construction paper to make the candy. They are all so unique!

Here they are hard at work!

 

                

We also did a gingerbread glyph. The students decorated their gingerbread man according to the glyph we followed. Then they got to paint and “sew” him up!

                            

To finish our gingerbread man unit up, we measured how tall we were compared to the gingerbread man using peppermints. I have pictures but they are on my other computer—so hopefully I can post those soon! The kids loved seeing how many peppermints tall they were and it was a fun way to talk about the words shorter and taller. They had to do this worksheet and draw how many peppermints tall the gingerbread man was and how many peppermints tall they were. This is how it turned out:

And of course, we had to top it all off with a gingerbread man cookie.