Learning Centers about Gingerbread

Our Gingerbread Puppets!

Reading an interactive story about a Gingerbread boy.

Decorating the gingerbread puppets we made at our Distance Learning from the Puppetry Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Playing a gingerbread game and eating gingerbread cookies. Yummy!

Following directions to decorate a gingerbread boy.

"Give your gingerbread boy one green stripe for each brother you have."

The children took one bite and put the cookie down.  We graphed what part of the gingerbread boy they ate first.

Making clothes for our gingerbread puppets.

Reading stories about Gingerbread boys.

Getting ready to follow the directions to decorate the paper gingerbread boy.

                                     Our class had a lot of fun at learning centers!

Gingerbread Learning Centers

Our first grade class was supposed to have a Distance Learning from the Puppetry Center in Atlantic Georgia. It was cancelled due to us having a two-hour delay because of icy weather. So we carried on by ourselves. We had learning centers all about gingerbread. We read two different stories on our level about the Gingerbread boy, worked with a Gingerbread story on the computer, made and clothed a Gingerbread puppet, took one bite off a Gingerbread baby cookie, graphed those bites by how many bit the head first, the right arm, left arm, right foot, left foot, etc... Most children bit the Gingerbread baby's head off first. Ouch! Good thing it is not real! We played a Gingerbread baby board game and had to follow directions if we landed on a spot with words. We also followed directions to decorate a Gingerbread boy. If our eyes were brown, we were to make two buttons. If our eyes were blue, make three. Etc... We had lots of fun. Our puppets were saying, "Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me... I'm the Gingerbread man!"

Gingerbread Learning Centers

We participated in learning centers all about gingerbread. We read several Gingerbread boy stories, took a bite out of a gingerbread boy and graphed where we bit him. (Most of us bit his head off first! Ouch!) We followed directions to decorate a gingerbread boy on paper... and worked with a Gingerbread Boy story on our computer. We also decorated our gingerbread puppet we made at our Distance Learning fieldtrip earlier today. We were very busy all afternoon. Fun, fun, fun!