The Gingerbread BoyReading & Writing

Read at least two versions of The Little Gingerbread Boy to your class. Use a double bubble to show the differences.-make as many words as you can from gingerbreadboy-blends/contractions-write story “The True Story of The Gingerbread Boy”-Read and illustrate poem “My Gingerbread House”-Gingerbread wordsearch-Write story “Inside the big red box…”-sequencing

Art-draw a gingerbread man-make a gingerbread man-make gingerbread people & put red string through hole to hang on window-make applesauce ornaments-movable gingerbread man

Math-roll a gingerbread man-use gingerbread men to measure-multiplication gingerbread boys-addition-subtraction-multiplication

Glyph-make a gingerbread man glyph (only give them the gingerbread man & you read instructions)

Langauge-put gingerbread words in abc order-synonyms-gingerbread man words-acrostic poem

Social Studies-Community gingerbread writing

Ideas-ideas from friends

Cooking-Gingerbread

Puppets-for retelling story

Make as many words as you can using only these letters.

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The Gingerbread Man

1. Find the blend in each word and write on the line.

_____ that _____ gingerbread _____ gumdrops

_____ mouth _____ green _____ when

_____ thinking _____ surprise _____ swish

_____ kitchen _____ stop _____ past

_____ shouted _____ chasing _____ just

_____ brown _____ twitched _____ faster

_____ grew _____ black _____ hungrily

_____ boasted _____ patch _____ blinking

_____ finished _____ swim _____ other

_____ climb _____ sparkling _____ that

_____ swam _____ last _____ closed

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2. What two words make up these contractions?

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I’ve ________ _____________________

it’s _________ _____________________

you’d ________ _____________________

can’t _________ _____________________

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Write the story The True Story of The Gingerbread Boy from the Wolf’s point of view.

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My Gingerbread House

I made a house of gingerbread.It was so sugary sweet.

It took me all day long to make,But lasted just a week!

Monday - I ate the ceiling.Tuesday - I ate the door.

Wednesday - I ate the windows.Thursday - I ate the floor.Friday - I ate all four walls.Saturday - I ate the lawn.

Sunday - I licked up the crumbs.

My gingerbread house is gone!

[ by Dotti Enderle ]

Place gingerbread boy on notebook paper (2-3 sheets) and staple at top. Cut out gingerbread boy with paper behind it. Then write a story.

Sequencing: Color and cut out the pictures. Put them in the correct order and glue them on paper. Write 2-3 sentences explaining each.

Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments II

Ingredients and InstructionsMix 3/4 to 1 cup applesauce with 1 (4.12-ounce) bottle ground cinnamon to form a stiff dough. Roll out to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutters. Make hole for ribbon. Carefully put on rack to dry. Let air dry several days, turning occasionally. Makes 12 sweet-smelling, wonderfully aromatic ornaments.

Note: These are NON-EDIBLE.

The ingredients 1 cup cinnamon3/4 cup applesauce1 teaspoon ground nutmeg1/4 cup white glue

How to do it Mix all ingredients well until they form a dough. Flatten the dough to a thickness of about 1/4 inch. Keep in mind that the dough will be quite dry, and can be tricky to work with.

Use cookie cutters to cut out festive holiday shapes. Use a toothpick, pencil or a drinking straw to punch a small hole in the top of each ornament if you plan to hang them. Keep them flat and move them to a warm, dry spot for 48 hours to allow them to dry. Alternatively, put them in a warm (not hot!) oven overnight.

Cut out and use to measure things in classroom.

Cut out & use to measure things in the classroom.

Mulltiplication:

Write words in abc order.

The Gingerbread Man WordsThink of and write eight words related to the The Gingerbread Man story. Then,for each word, write a sentence using that word.

Social Studies Gingerbread writing ideas-

I also do a unit on the Gingerbread Man.  For one activity, I tie it into our study of communities in Social Studies.  We talk about different places in our community where you can go, and each student selects a business or public place to write about.  They each write a page for a class book where the Gingerbread Man visits the place, gets into some kind of mischief, and is finally chased away saying "Run, run as fast as you can!  You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"  We use transition words and decide as a class what order the pages should be put in.  I type them up and have the students illustrate a page to go with it, then bind the pages into a class book.  They turn out really, really cute!  One year, one of my creative students ended the story with the Gingerbread Man running into our classroom and me catching him and eating him!

DIFFERENT IDEAS for Gingerbread Man:

Bring in 2 kinds of Gingerbread men cookies. Graph your favorite type of gingerbread cookie. Graph results on graphing pocket chart. Discuss class results.

Bring in Little Debbie gingerbread men snack cookies. Let the children unwrap them and take only 1 bite. Then say, "Freeze!" Make a class graph to show which part of the cookie they bit first. Talk about the graph finding which part had the most, the least, the same? Let them finish the cookie.

Take gingerbread cut outs & write numbers of them 0-9 & have students draw two & add them together. Or use < or > or =.

Cooking-All students participate in all parts of the work. The dixie cups referred to are the 5 oz wax coated paper cups (Dixie brand) And these are all cooked in a covered electric skillet.

GINGERBREAD

3 T gingerbread mix1 T water

Put mix in cup. Add water. Stir well. Bake in electric skillet at 400 degrees 15 minutes or until done.