Gingerbread Day

Today in Kindergarten we celebrated Gingerbread Day. No, it's not an actual holiday (as far as I know), but I figured since we have been doing so much about Jesus and the Nativity story and Santa Clause and Winter that we should do something a little bit different today. Plus, I found some great freebies to use along with several of the gingerbread books that I already have in my classroom library. (Win, Win!) Of course, our plans for the day were interrupted by vision testing and practice for our Christmas program, but we still managed to squeeze in a good amount of gingerbread fun.

In the morning, I explained that we would be talking about Gingerbread people all day today and we talked a bit about what gingerbread is, what it tastes like, who has had it before, who hasn't had it but thinks that their mom or sister has, etc... Then, I reminded them that we have been learning to retell stories in three parts: beginning, middle, and end. I told them that we were going to read a story called Gingerbread Baby and that they needed to pay close attention so that they would be able to draw me a picture of each part of the story.

After reading the book, they completed this free worksheet from Rowdy in Room 300.

(There is a free pack of worksheets to go along with this book at homeschoolcreations.com.)

Later we read The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School and Gingerbread Pirates. Afterwards we talked about what kind of gingerbread we would want to make and they drew their own gingerbread men and women using this free template from Simply Kinder.

Then we used this cute paper from the Creative Classroom to write a Missing poster for the Gingerbread men and women that they created.

For more great Gingerbread ideas and activities check out the 2014 Gingerbread Exchange post on Simply Kinder's blog!