Gingerbread 5 for Friday!

Our theme this week was The Gingerbread Man.  We read several versions, including the Gingerbread Baby and the ever so popular 'Gingerbread Boy' by Paul Galdone.  Year after year this is a class favorite.  I have the CD reading of the book, which captures and keeps my little ones' attention.  This picture is one of my all time favorites. While we were getting ready for circle, one of my afternoon sweethearts asked if he could play the CD and read the book.  Of course I said YES!  I love it when my littles show an interest in books.  When I looked over I saw this.  :)  It made my heart sing.  How sweet is this that he was holding the book so everyone else could follow along?!  LOVE!

We also measured gingerbread picture with Unifix cubes.  We compared and talked about greater than and less than.  Big stuff for pre-k'rs!

The  little bakers played a fun game during circle time.  After a letter was called out, the first one to scoop it up with a spatula got to keep the 'gingerbread cookie'.  Each little learner counted his/her cookies at the end to work on counting with one to one correspondence.

Of course, we had to go on a school wide search to find the Gingerbread Man who was leaving us clues.

After leaving clues all over, we eventually found his friends in our classroom!

 He was delicious!  Snip, Snap!

Here is a picture of our door for December.  The littles love it!

Next week I have a feeling that we may be getting a visit from an elf.  :)

I redid my 'Where is the Gingerbread Man?' emergent reader.  Click HERE or on the picture to grab your new copy.

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Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.  :)