The Gingerbread Man 2011 The Musical/Silent Auction and Day 5 & 6

In addition to our GBM hunt around the globe, we have spent MONTHS (since Halloween) preparing for a musical, The Tale of the Gingerbread Man that we found from Heidi Songs.  On Thursday, December 15th, 125 of our Kindergarten kiddos performed this musical for their parents (totaling over 400 guests!!).  The children helped to create [...]

The Gingerbread Man Math 2011

To tie in some math, we measured the perimeter of a GBM using different math materials I already had in my classroom.  I traced a random GBM and then put the math materials in the copy machine to create the recording page.  The children rotated from table to table and measured the perimeter of the [...]

The Gingerbread Man 2011 Day 3 & 4

This is the package we received when the GBM visited Israel.  We learned about the celebration of Hanukkah and read Mrs. Greenburg’s Messy Hanukkah.  We also talked about the Menorah and how all of the candles are important to the celebration of Hanukkah.  The GBM also brought us paper menorah’s to cut out and color. [...]

The Gingerbread Man 2011 Day 1 & 2

Yes, I’m still alive!  My internet has been really slow and I can’t upload pictures when it’s running so slowly!  Here are some more details about this year’s visit from the GBM! Here is the package that starts it all!  The GBM left us this package, some money, our passports, and a trail of cookie [...]

GBM 2011

We started our new Gingerbread Man (GBM) unit today!!  We read The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone (and added a copy to the listening center).  The REAL fun with this unit starts on Wednesday, when our cookies go missing!   I also wanted to show you how I organize my materials from year to year [...]

The Gingerbread Man

Here are some links to the GBM of years past.  I’ve had some requests to see the letters so I thought that these links would help…   Passport: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/holidays-around-the-world-passport/ Day 1: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/the-gingerbread-man-day-2/ Day 2: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/the-gingerbread-man-day-3/ Day 3: (Brazil) http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/brazil-power-point/ Day 4-7: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/the-gingerbread-man-days-4-5-6-and-7/ Day 8-9: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/the-gbm-day-8-and-9/ Some Polar Express Sites: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/polar-express/ http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/polar-express-letter-from-the-gbm/ Questions/Answers: http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/gbm-questionreview/   Hope [...]

The Gingerbread Man

Hi Everyone! We are getting ready to ramp up for gingerbread season!   I wanted to remind you that all of the gingerbread letters that you see used in my units are available for purchase.  I have two different sets of letters for sale this year because we’ve changed the unit a little bit. The [...]