Gingerbread Houses: The Christmas Kitchen
Looking for a special project to try before your Christmas or Winter break begins? Consider decorating graham cracker “gingerbread” houses!
Recruit a volunteer to make the houses, make them yourself, or help your students put them together. Ask students to bring candy to share...tootsie rolls, kisses, hugs, m&m’s, dots, skittles, red hots, licorice, peppermint wheels, and candy canes are just a few possibilities.
If you make the entire house at school, it’s easiest to construct them during a center. Have the students work with you or another adult to put together the 4 walls. Next, join the 2 sections of the roof and set aside to dry. The roof can be attached to the house when everything is dry and stable.
Whether you make the houses with the students or provide pre-made houses, the fun really begins with the decorating. Some students will cover the entire house with a conglomeration of candy; others will carefully choose candy and strategically place it on the house. Whatever the approach, the creations are beautiful and the students are thrilled with the results!
Although gingerbread houses are often associated with Christmas, you can decorate them at any time of the year. Use candy hearts in February or jelly beans in April! Culminate a gingerbread boy unit by decorating a house for him or make a special house for Hansel and Gretel as part of a fairy tale unit. Whenever you decide to decorate gingerbread houses, they will be a hit with your students!
Check out detailed directions in our Gingerbread Man Unit.
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Call them what you will, Readers’ Theater, Partner Plays, or simply, what it is, reading for fluency and comprehension. When you add sound effects (Foley effects) and Leitmotifs (simple melodies) to a script it becomes and Orchestrated Script! No matter the name or the purpose, young children love to read, practice, rehearse and perform!
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Christmas Themed Guided Readers to Read and Color!
Offering students a "paper" book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Students love these delightful stories that are ready to read on their level. The clip art is delightful!
Contents
Merry Christmas
Presents From Santa
The North Pole
Run Gingerbread Man Run!
The Christmas Train
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Are you looking for thematic way to teach academic skills? You will love this Gingerbread Man Thematic Unit, and it will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting. Everything is successfully classroom tested.
This Gingerbread Man unit is strategically linked to core standards. It is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, social studies, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
The first page of the unit is a planning sheet. This page shows everything that is available to you within the unit, divided into categories. There is also space provided to make notes and add activities to personalize the unit to fit your own needs!
Table of Contents:
Shared Reading Activities:
Gingerbread Man Retelling Activity
Gingerbread Man Story Element Study
Gingerbread Man: Five day Poetry Study Lesson Plans
Literacy Activities:
Beware the Fox: Blending Phonemes Into CVC Words
Run Run As Fast As You Can: Printing, Identifying & Matching Uppercase letters.
A Village of Sounds: Identifying Final Sounds
Gingerbread Man Match: Identifying Color Words
Independent Literacy Activities
Colored Ginger
Gingerbread Get Away
Math Activities:
Gingerbread Hide & Seek: Ordering Numbers Using Concept of Greater Than/Less Than
Across The River: Identifying Two-Dimensional Shapes
Gingerbread Man Escape: Naming The Numbers 0-20 Fluently
Gingerbread Land: Naming and Matching Numbers 11-20
Independent Math Activities:
The Cookie Jar: Counting Quantities & Making One Greater
Gingerbread Man & Friends: Number Quantity & Writing Numerals
Art Projects
Gingerbread Story Puppets
Gingerbread Man-Story Take Home Project
Science
Gingerbread Twins: Identifying Matching Pairs Tactilely
Gingerbread Playdough: Combining Ingredients
Kitchen
Decorating Gingerbread Men Gingerbread Hunt
Gingerbread Houses
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Guided Writing Activities:
Label It
Using a Word Wall
Story Elements
All About Mr. Fox
The Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Books
The Gingerbread Man
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There are so many great Gingerbread versions out there, here are a few of my favorite.
You can find many versions of the Gingerbread Man on youtube. Personally, I love the oldies but goodies.