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Gingerbread Man Ideas!

I love teaching using The Gingerbread Man!  I always do it in December and it's one of my favorite units.  I love all the different versions and my kids eat up the story!!  It's just the best.  I haven't changed a lot of what I did from last year so I'm gonna do a "re-post" of my last year's gingerbread post.  You can find my Gingerbread Fun unit HERE and my Runaway Gingerbread Craft HERE.  

Don't forget, my 12 Days of Christmas posts begin TOMORROW!!  

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 After reading as many versions of The Gingerbread Man that we could, Friday we made our own gingerbread cookie hoping he would NOT run away.  Here's our cookie pre oven.

  We are on our way to bake our cookie...

 After a few minutes, we went back to get him and, to our surprise…he DID run away! 

Of course, we had to hurry and try to catch him...

We looked everywhere!  No luck! But, during p.e., I got a call from the principal and she caught him running in the halls and had to sit him in time-out for a few minutes.

I went and got him out…and of course, we enjoyed him for snack!

Here's just a few of our gingerbread centers this week.  

The weekly pocket chart story

 An all time favorite…flipping cookies for ending sounds

 Literacy and Math integrated center

 And, building sight words on gingerbread houses.

Measuring...

The kids loved this.  They had to measure the gingerbread man first with peppermints then they had to compare their own height to the gingerbread man.  Are they taller or shorter?  I think we actually had on little one that was shorter than him.  

We made this little 5 Senses anchor chart...

and then, these cute little 5 senses ginger friends...

We made Runaway Gingerbread Cookies!  I love the way these turned out and they look so cute hanging in our hallway!

You can find this Craft plus MORE HERE

 We've also been learning about verbs so we made these cute little gingerbread friends and used verbs in our writing.

 We made these adorable little Santa's from The Glyph Girls.

You can find him HERE.

I sent home a letter to Santa and the students returned them with their wishes!

12 Days of Christmas Giveaways and Fun!

Cyber Monday TPT Sale!!

Thanks to The 3AM Teacher for this adorable graphic!

I always get excited about shopping!  Especially when there are really good deals involved and you just don't get any better than TPT's Cyber Monday sale that begins today!!  I can't wait to get some things moved from my wish list to my cart!

But first, I've got several things to leave feedback on to build up my points so that I can save even more!  Don't forget to leave feedback for all prior purchases first...I mean it's pretty much like FREE money!  

Next, shop 'til ya drop!

Don't forget to use the code TPTCYBER to get the EXTRA discount!

My store is 20% off, plus the code gives an extra discount for a total savings of 28%!

Last, Enjoy!

Click on the My Products tab (as you see below) to find my Christmas and Winter product links.

  

Or, you can click the image at THE TOP of this post to go straight to my store.  :)

Here's a few of my favorite non-themed products.  Click the image to go to the product.

Happy Shopping friends!