Run, Run as Fast as You Can to Have Some Fun with the Gingerbread Man!
A classic fairytale, especially one that is fun to read in the classroom around Christmastime! This year I’m teaching a week long Social Studies unit centered around The Gingerbread Man!
We kicked off the week on Monday morning at our Morning Meeting by reading The Gingerbread Man. Throughout the week each student will create a gingerbread house! Students have created their gingerbread house with their Guided Reading Group at my assistant’s station during Literacy Stations. It has taken us four days for each student to create their gingerbread house, but it’s a good lesson in patience and every student will have created their gingerbread house by Thursday afternoon, the time we need to use it for our Social Studies lesson, so it’s worked well for us.
In Social Studies we’ve been learning all about maps. The first two days of this four day unit we learned what maps are, map features, and we practiced using a map to get information. On the third day of this unit our assistant principal read The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School to all of the kindergarten classes at our school. One of our Social Studies standards for this unit is for students to listen and follow directions so after we read The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School we went on a hunt around our school for the Gingerbread Man. {Thank you, TeachingHeartsandMinds, for the freebie!}. If you do this activity be sure you have gingerbread cookies! Spoiler alert- that’s what your students will find at the end of their Gingerbread Hunt! {My all-time favorite gingerbread cookies are the iced gingerbread cookies from Sprouts!}. On the fourth day of this unit each student will be given a house template and asked to draw a map showing the inside of their gingerbread house.
We’ll end the week with an annual event- Real Men Read. My dad will be coming to read to my class and then he’ll stay for lunch! He’ll read a version of The Gingerbread Man to end our week of gingerbread fun!
What’s your favorite Gingerbread Man activity to do with your students? Let me know in the comments below!
We kicked off the week on Monday morning at our Morning Meeting by reading The Gingerbread Man. Throughout the week each student will create a gingerbread house! Students have created their gingerbread house with their Guided Reading Group at my assistant’s station during Literacy Stations. It has taken us four days for each student to create their gingerbread house, but it’s a good lesson in patience and every student will have created their gingerbread house by Thursday afternoon, the time we need to use it for our Social Studies lesson, so it’s worked well for us.
In Social Studies we’ve been learning all about maps. The first two days of this four day unit we learned what maps are, map features, and we practiced using a map to get information. On the third day of this unit our assistant principal read The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School to all of the kindergarten classes at our school. One of our Social Studies standards for this unit is for students to listen and follow directions so after we read The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School we went on a hunt around our school for the Gingerbread Man. {Thank you, TeachingHeartsandMinds, for the freebie!}. If you do this activity be sure you have gingerbread cookies! Spoiler alert- that’s what your students will find at the end of their Gingerbread Hunt! {My all-time favorite gingerbread cookies are the iced gingerbread cookies from Sprouts!}. On the fourth day of this unit each student will be given a house template and asked to draw a map showing the inside of their gingerbread house.
We’ll end the week with an annual event- Real Men Read. My dad will be coming to read to my class and then he’ll stay for lunch! He’ll read a version of The Gingerbread Man to end our week of gingerbread fun!
What’s your favorite Gingerbread Man activity to do with your students? Let me know in the comments below!
Comments
Post a Comment