Gingerbread Week!

We spent an entire week immersed in the land of gingerbread!

             

We read a variety of gingerbread stories and compared the characters, chant, and ending of each.  The boys and girls became experts at making even more contrasts and comparisons as the week went along.  Here is a picture of the chart we made:

Students used a graphic organizer as they wrote a story making sure it included a beginning, middle, and end.  The story was in repsonse to the prompt:  "Where would you run to if you were the gingerbread boy/girl?"

We also took advantage of this yummy treat to do some graphing.  Students used a variety of graphs to display and interpret data after they took just one bite off of their cookie. Here is a picture of our "pie" graph:

Everyone enjoyed becoming "scientists" as students were presented with the question of "what do you think would have happened to the gingerbread boy if he would have swam across the river?"

Students had to write a "hypothesis" and design an experiment to prove it. During the experiment students drew pictures of their results, wrote directions for the experiment including materials needed and procedure, and wrote a conclusion including whether they proved their hypothesis and what they could infer from the results.  Use of adjectives and verbs was emphasized throughout the   writing.

It was a yummy good time!