Gingerbread Week & Our Five Senses

This week we learned about our five senses and had tons of fun reading "the gingerbread stories"...and comparing them.  The Gingerbread Man is one of my faves!  I didn't snap a lot of pics this week, but here are a few of the fun things we did!  The My Five Senses sheet below, Peppermint Patterns, and Flippin' for Sounds games can be found in my new Gingerbread Fun unit on tpt.  The Tastes of our Tongue isn't in there, but I'll try to get it on as a freebie soon...it was a last minute thing.

Drew pictures our five senses and wrote them

Had a taste test...

 sweet

sour

 sour

 bitter

 For fun, each day we used our sense of smell to decide which scent we would burn in our classroom...

We moved our names on the Promethean board to the one we liked best...

Lemon never won...what's wrong with lemon?  I like lemon?

 We flipped Christmas cookies and listened for the beginning sound of the picture on the back

 Still practicing patterns...

 Our cute little Gingerbread Five Senses anchor chart

 One version of our gingerbread glyphs from Kim Jordano

 We made fraction cookies, labeled them, and of course...added glitter!

Our Five Senses gingerbread man...isn't he cute?

Gingerbread House Word Hunt

Catch the Gingerbread Man

Catch the Gingerbread Man is played the same way as Catch the Turkey from last week's post...

And, my  December Small Groups and Intervention pack is available at my tpt store now...check it out!

We Found our Gingerbread Man!

So, on Friday, we made a gingerbread man.  We took him to the kitchen to bake him and after p.e., we went back to get him.  When Mrs. Sharon went to get him...he had run away!  Off we went, searching for our little gingerbread man.  Mrs. Monica in the office said she saw him running in the halls and she tried to catch him, but he was too fast.  Only a couple other teachers spotted him, but we didn't find him.  We made LOST posters so that we might find him sooner.  I got this idea from a teacher I work with Mrs. Brown.  I told my boys and girls that it was possible that he ran home to my house because that is where I mixed him up.  Sure enough, I found him upstairs playing in the bonus room with all the toys.  I scolded him and told he shouldn't ever run away.  I got him and locked him up until Monday.  Monday, we decorated him and ATE HIM!  The kids loved that we finally found him and most of all got to eat him.  YUM!

all that's left after we got done with him