Gingerbread Stories

We have spent these first days of December reading and discussing different gingerbread tales.  We read several different versions of the story.  We read The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Bear, The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Cowboy, Gingerbread Baby, Gingerbread Friends, and Gingerbread Pirates....just to name a few.  Did you know there were so many?  While we read, we compared and contrasted the stories.  We recorded our notes on a huge classroom chart.  We wrote the characters, refrain, and endings for each story.

 We had some wonderful help meeting this important standard.  Our pen pals, education majors from Rocky, came into the classroom to read six of the versions on Wednesday.  The college students did such a great job reading and discussing the story elements.  Some even dressed up and brought props!  Then, at the end of their visit, the Rocky students gave each of the children a homemade gingerbread cookie that they decorated to go with their story.  So fun! Click on photos in spiral to enlarge. 

The students were so lively in their discussions.  I even caught them independently discussing other versions that they had read or listened to on the ipads.  In addition to reading the stories, we also had learning centers with a gingerbread theme...but you will have to read about that in the "Smart Cookies" post above!