Gingerbread Learning and Fun

We have been engaged in a compare/contrast study of the Gingerbread Boy story and have already enjoyed many versions of the story to the point that we are masters at retelling our own version and can be heard reciting the chant during playtime.

Here are just a few of the versions we have read:

    

The children had lots of fun creating their own gingerbread character using buttons and sticky tape, and pom pom balls. They help to make our hallway look so festive.

Taa-daaaa!

We have also been having fun playing different gingerbread boy games and practicing letter matching, listening for sounds, matching things that are visually the same, and learning to take turns with friends.

The full day kiddos continued the gingerbread unit by participating in gingerbread challenges.

No unit would be complete without having some creative fun with a tinker tray... here is our gingerbread tinker tray. 

So fun!!

Here are some finished creations!

These kiddos are using loose parts which they are pretending are gingerbread candy decorations and are weighing them to discover which ones are heavier and which ones are lighter. They found that the pom poms were the lightest.

The engineers are busy designing and building a house to hold a gingerbread family.

Time to bring loose parts onto the scene. If you stretch your imagination, the colorful loose parts the children chose could pass for candy decorations:)

Check out this team work!

This little house comes complete with a roof!

Whoa, this house fits a human gingerbread boy:)

These girl engineers are working on a gingerbread skyscraper:)

The Lego engineers are building smaller scale homes for the gingerbread boys.

The finished product complete with loose part candy decorations!

You will always find a group of busy little authors creating their own versions of favorite stories. We hope to record a few this week, so be sure to check the Misc. YouTube playlist on our class webpage.

As you have heard before... THIS is what learning 

through play looks like!