This week we began our unit on gingerbread.  In this unit we read many different versions of the gingerbread man folktale.  We started by reading a version that resembles original Gingerbread Man story.  We did a retell of the story by doing a sequence cut and paste.  Then we made our own gingerbread men and write action words to complete a phrase.

The next day we read another version called Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.  Students made a list of things that they would run away from if they were the gingerbread baby and wrote about it in their journals.  The gingerbread man writing prompt comes from The Education Center.

We compared the characters from the story from Gingerbread Baby to the characters from Gingerbread Man using hula hoops and character cards.  Then students made gingerbread houses for the gingerbread baby.

Posted by zelbic in Characters, Christmas, Compare and Contrast, Comprehension, Gingerbread, holidays, Literacy, Sequencing, text to text, Writing Tags: Christmas, compare and contrast, Gingerbread Baby, gingerbread man, sequence, verbs