Monday, December 5, 2011

Gingerbread Centers and activities

I'm so sorry that I haven't been the best blogger lately:( Just so darn busy with my class, my family and with school and trying to balance them all can be a bit crazy some times!!;) Anyway- here are the gingerbread centers we did last week:
number match-tally, number and number word
labeling patterns:
sequencing numbers:



greater than, less than or equal to:
Here are our literacy Centers:
rhyming-
short vowel sounds:
building sentences:








You can find all of these centers in my Gingerbread Math and Literacy Centers pack.

I just LOVE the gingerbread unit!!! It's so much fun reading all of the different stories!!! I purchased Deanna Jump's Gingerbread pack and it's one of my FAVORITE ever!!!!!  We made her Gingerbread Journals and wrote about all of the different story endings!!!Here's the cover:
So sorry this one's upside down!!! We didn't have time to make the little gingerbread men for the front of our journals, so we just stuck a gingerbread picture on the front:)




 Here are some of our journal pages from the G-bread baby and the G-bread girl:)
I also love to read this book at the end of the week. It's just a generic little G-bread book that I got at a yard sale. It doesn't have an author...it just says "As retold by Dandi".
But, I LOVE it because the g-bread boy has peppercorn eyes, which makes the fox sneeze him out into the little old ladies arms and they live happily every after!! Doesn't get much better than that!;)


We did the fun experiement of what would happen to GBM if he would have swam across the river;) (Deanna Jump)  They LOVED this!!!
Here are some response sheets:

 
 










 We decorated Gingerbread Men:

Then we graphed which part we ate first using a pie graph-(activity from Deanna Jump:) We have always done this activity, but I LOVE this pie graph and the giant gingerbread man to display it on!!!;)

Sheeesh! Kinder life sure would be boring without Deanna Jump, wouldn't it?!;) Thank you, Deanna for sharing your ideas and making my classroom so much more fun and fabulous!!;)



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10 comments:

  1. Ms. LopezDecember 5, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    I have that same book where he DOESN'T get eaten. I love it. I always read it before the other books because I know the kids will be expecting that he will get eaten. Some of them are so relieved he doesn't.
    Coloring Outside The Lines

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  2. ToniaDecember 5, 2011 at 9:03 PM

    I just found that book on Amazon and ordered it. Sounds like one I need to add to my collection. Thanks! Cute centers!
    Tonia in Redlands,CA

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  3. FreckleteacherDecember 5, 2011 at 9:48 PM

    Awesome post Katie! I just love seeing photos! I have Deanna Jump's unit too and it is great! Now there are so manygreat ideas that my head is spinning! We just can't fit them all in!

    I love the book you mentioned...I might need to order that one!
    Your students are doing a great job sounding out their thinking in the journals too!
    Thanks again!

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  4. SaraDecember 6, 2011 at 4:00 AM

    We are doing gingerbread week right now and I have Mrs. Jump's unit! I love it! I so wish I would've gotten yours too :) Great pics and I am so so having a tough time with the balancing act as well! Your blog rocks and it seems your classroom does too! Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing!

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  5. Ashley NicholsDecember 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM

    Fantastic Post! We did a lot of these activities too and had a blast!! :)

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  6. Heather's HeartDecember 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    I LOVED all of your pictures! Your kiddos are so lucky to have you as a teacher.

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    I had given you the Blog On Fire award..but forgot to tell you!! Come check it out :)

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    Caitlin
    Kindergarten Smiles

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  9. SophiaDecember 15, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    Love Deanna's GBM unit! I keep finding more things to add for next year. I only have 2 1/2 days left with my kiddos before our break begins. So many Gingerbread activities, so little time!

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  10. Sharon DudleyJanuary 5, 2012 at 8:27 PM

    Katie, these gingerbread ideas are terrific! I've always been a big collector of all things gingerbread to use in pre-k (and previously, in kindergarten), and my assortment of books includes many variations of the traditional gingerbread story. The one you found with the peppercorn eyes, though, is adorable, and I've never heard of it! I love your blog and I'm really looking forward to hearing more posts. I'd like to give you the Versatile Bloger Award. You can retrieve details from a recent post on my own blog. Have a nice day!

    Sharon
    http://teachingwithsight.blogspot.com

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