Gingerbread Man Culmination

Today we read our last gingerbread story for the week.  It was titled Gingerbread Friends.  The interesting thing about this story was that the Gingerbread Baby from the story we read earlier in the week was the main character in this story too.  The problem in the story was that the Gingerbread  Baby was sad because it didn't have anyone to play with when its boy wasn't home.  He searched a bakery in the city to try to find a friend, but only ran into cookies who could not talk.  The solution to the Gingerbread Baby's problem came when Matti, the boy who baked him, baked him some gingerbread friends.

During centers today the children made a candy cane letter "c."  To do this they cut out the "c" then dipped a q-tip in red paint. They then made a turn taking pattern of red, white, red, white.  Mrs. Palmer our school speech pathologist helps in our classroom on Fridays, so she did this activity with many of the children.  At my center some of the children played a gingerbread letter recognition board game.  Other children worked on matching beginning sounds and other reading skills.  One of our state standards is that the children measure with nonstandard units.  At Mrs. Severson's center the children were given a bag of small gingerbread cutouts.  They used their counters to measure the height of a gingerbread dad, mom, and baby.  They then recorded their findings.  The children are not expected to write their numbers by the end of the year, but it is a skill we want to introduce them to.