It was a gingerbread week in preschool! Every day we read a different version of the Gingerbread Man. The preschoolers used our story graph to compare the characters from each story. We also compared the story endings. I photocopied the story covers to make our graph.
We read the following stories:
- The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth
- The Gingerbread Man by Jack Hartmann (audio story)
- The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst
- The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires
- The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka
(I originally got this graph idea from Vanessa at Pre-K Pages.)
According to our "Which story was your favorite?" graph, The Gingerbread Girl was the favorite of the week. (The boys votes were split between the other stories while the girls all rallied together for the same story.)
We also played some gingerbread math games. The favorite was the Gingerbread Buttons game that required my students to match quantities and numerals by placing the correct amount of M&Ms on each gingerbread man. I can't tell you how excited they were about getting to eat one M&M! You have to love preschoolers!
The big event of the week was baking our very own gingerbread men! It was a bit messier than our pumpkin pies so I was not able to take as many great pictures due to the fact that I had flour all over my hands!
Before we began, I labeled squares of foil with each student's name. Their gingerbread men bake right on the foil so we can easily decipher who each gingerbread man belongs to. We used Dots and Red Hots for decorating.
After finally getting to eat their gingerbread men, the preschoolers used a graph to track which part of their gingerbread men they ate first.
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