Gingerbread Unit underway!

Our Gingerbread Unit is well underway. We started by reading the traditional Gingerbread Man and acted it out. Students wrote about the beginning, middle, and end of the story to summarize it (see below.) (By the way, some of those are coming home unfinished. Rather than having a lot of unfinished work left in the classroom at this time of year, I prefer to send it home, and students can finish it there.) We then read The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and compared phrases from the stories. Next we will be doing some gingerbread art, math, and more reading of various versions of gingerbread stories: The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Cowboy, The Gingerbread Pirates, and Gingerbread Friends. We have also already started on our own versions of a gingerbread story. They are so cute! We have Gingerbread Mermaids, Santas, Reindeer, Spiderman, Fish, etc!