We read the
Gingerbread Man for Shared Reading!
We
talk about the word dissolve. Students get to
dissolve their own gingerbread man in a cup full of
water.
Students
retell the Gingerbread Man story using puppets!
We
compared/contrasted the Gingerbread Man and the
Gingerbread Boy stories using a Venn Diagram!
Our class ABC
pattern! We add one di-cut to our pattern
every day!
Every day our Gingerbread
Men jump down one level! Our Gingerbread Men
let the students know where they will be
going for Center Time!
Our Shared
Writing!
The Gingerbread Man ran to the ___________.
We
measure with Gingerbread Cookies to see how long
items are in our classroom!
Using
our Sense of Smell we smell Pine, Mint, Vanilla, and Cinnamon.
We record
on our data sheet if we liked the smell,
thought it was okay, or disliked the smell.
The students LOVE the surprising smells!
Using our
Sense of taste we have a Holiday tasting
party! Be sure to have your students check
out their taste buds in the mirror!
We taste the following items: cider, candy cane,
nuts, and chocolate.
I place
objects to feel in little stockings.
Students reach in and record on their data
sheet what they think they feel! I like to
use shapes in my stockings...as this
reinforces shape recognitions.I
stick in a block (square), peppermint (circle),
crayon, plastic cookie cutter, and a pretend
present.
For
experimenting with our Sense of hearing I
have the students close their eyes and
listen to some sounds I make.
bells
(reindeer bells)
Santa..(Ho, Ho, Ho)
knocking
hammering (Elves making gifts!)
unwrapping wrapping paper (gift)
Eating (Santa eating cookies!)
The students love this activity! What a
fantastic way to reinforce and teach the
Five Senses!
We make a
Gingerbread Quilt and a Gingerbread
Christmas Tree using the Gingerbread boys and girls
the students decorate at home for homework! SO
CUTE!!!!
Students
make their own Gingerbread houses! I found
some great holiday candy at the Dollar
Store!
We
make a class gingerbread man to eat! When we go to get our
gingerbread cookie...he has ran from the
oven! We search high and low all around
the school! We find our gingerbread cookie
back
in our classroom! The students
have a FANTASTIC time searching for the
Gingerbread Man!
Students
graph what body part they bit off their gingerbread
first.
We
make Gingerbread books using sequence as buttons!
One button on my
gingerbread man
Two buttons on my gingerbread man.
Three buttons on my gingerbread man.
Four buttons on my gingerbread man.
Five buttons on my gingerbread man.
Six buttons on my gingerbread man.
Seven buttons on my gingerbread man.
Eight buttons on my gingerbread man.
Nine buttons on my gingerbread man.
Ten buttons on my gingerbread man.
We
make patterned peppermints using two paper plates,
red markers or green markers, ribbon and cellophane.
