Gingerbread Man on the Loose in School

Each year, we start the year off with the Gingerbread Man on the Loose in School. {I know many of you do this unit for Christmas,

so read this post now and get ideas for later.} I love to use the book, The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School.

Gingerbread Man Loose in the School book

It is a seriously CUTE book all about a gingerbread man who is made by students and then ESCAPES in the school. He visits all those important places in the school. {Hmmm… kinda like WE do?}

Using the book

Here is my group doing a LISTENING to READING activity. We worked on turning the CD on and off. Taking on and taking off our headsets. Turning on and off our headsets. Adjusting the volume on the headsets. Listening to the story. Turning the page when prompted. I mean… we worked on everything!

Gingerbread Man book for the beginning of the school year

{Turn the page little love… catch up!}

WOO HOO!

Extending our learning

In the world of Kinder, you have to teach them EVERYTHING. We also took our {cleaned} play dough tools and ready made cookie dough to create our own cookies. With a little flour, we roll out the dough and make our cookie.

Many of my kids have never made cookies before.

And to cut it out with a cookie cutter.

making cookies in school to tie into Gingerbread Man book

{Who cares about the mess? Not me. As long as we are learning!}

We decorated the cookies with mini M&Ms.

We write down each child’s name by their cookie on the parchment paper.

Making the book into other activities

We also looked on some FUN Gingerbread puzzles.

This is a great time buffer between the groups.

We take our cookies to the lunch room to be baked. We remind the ladies to NOT OPEN THE OVEN. When we do to get our cookies out of the oven the ESCAPE. We have to chase them all over the school, discovering all those important places like the nurse’s office, library, and lunch room.

Somehow… Those cookies find their way back to our classroom and we eat those legs off those sneaky guys asap.

This is a fun and meaningful day at school that my kids NEVER forget. I love it too!