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Gingerbread Pals

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*Read the book Gingerbread Boy.  Have some puppets (cow, horse, fox, boy and girl) ready and act out the story as you read.  Visuals help to bring the story alive for the children.

*Have the children retell the story with a pocket chart.  Have the charters separate from the sentence strips so the children are able to move the text around and retell it again.  This will help to develop oral language and conversation skills.

“I’ve run away from the ________.

“You can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man.”

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*Have a cookie tasting.  Have different kinds of cookies to taste but make sure that you include Ginger Snaps or some other kind of gingerbread cookie.  Graph your results.

*Do the rhyme, Who took the Gingerbread Man from the Pan?

      Who took the Gingerbread Man from the Pan?

      Who Me?

      Couldn’t be

      Then who took the Gingerbread Man from the Pan?

      (Let child pick another child in the group, giving the name.)

*Do the nursery rhyme Bakers Man.

     Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man

     Bake me a cake as fast as you can

     Roll it and pat it and mark it with B

     And put it in the oven for Baby and me.

*Make Gingerbread Cookies; let the children help with adding the ingredients and mixing.  Then let them roll out their own dough and cut.  Bake.

*Cookie Sheet Sorting, get metal cookie sheets and different shapes of cookie cutters.  Cut out of paper the cookie cuter shapes and tape to the cookie sheets.  Place the cookie cutters in a basket and let the children match the cookie cutter to the cut out on the cookie sheet.

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*Gingerbread people craft; get out different colors of brown paper, yarn, lace scraps, buttons, glitter, felt scraps, fabric scraps, markers, glue, and scissors.  Let the children create their own gingerbread person.  Remember do not pre-cute or pre-draw on the brown paper let them do it themselves so that it is their project and not the teacher’s project.

*Washing Kitchen Tools Get out dish pans and place different measuring tools in the pans with soapy water.  Let the children experiment with measuring.

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*Tub of Fun, get dish pans and put oat meal, flour and cinnamon in them.  Add sifters, measuring cups, measuring spoons, bowls and wooden spoons.  The children will see how the flour will go through the sifter but the oat meal will not.  Dictate what the children are saying about their experience.  When activity is over add to your sand and water table for the children to use during free choice time.

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*Sound Mats

Children sort objects by sound onto letter mats.  Child picks up an object from the object tray and identifies the object and the beginning sound. Child then places that object onto the right letter mat.   For this letter sound mat activity use the picture cards from the back of the lesson.

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Movement, Games and Activities:

Gingerbread boy/girl Tag

Name of child, _________, _________

                                      Name of child

Run, Run, Run as fast as you can

You can’t catch me

Because I’m the _________ boy/girl.

                       Name of child

Sand and Water Table:

Add flour, cinnamon, wooden spoons, bowls, measuring cups, measuring spoons and cookie cutters.

Gingerbread Pal
A theme lesson plan from Kids World Exploration

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48 page lesson plan for $3.75


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