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Literature
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 The Gingerbread Man by
Brenda Parkes (Rigby Big Book)
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 The Gingerbread
Man by Eric Kimmel |
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 The Gingerbread
Man by Jim Aylesworth |
 The
Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt |
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 The Gingerbread
Baby by Jan Brett |
 The Stinky Cheese
Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka |
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Poems/Class Books
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A-B-CDE
The Gingerbread Man is running from me.
F-G-HIJ
The Gingerbread Man is running away.
K-L-MNO
I said stop. He said NO!
P-Q-RST
Across the river’s where he wants to be.
U-V-WXY
I can’t catch him even if I try
Z-Z-ZZZ
The Gingerbread Man is running from me.
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One cookie, two cookies, three cookies,
four.
Five cookies, six cookies, seven cookies, more.
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Gingerbread, gingerbread, turn around.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, touch the ground.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, climb the stairs.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, say your prayers.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, turn out the light.
Gingerbread, gingerbread, say goodnight.
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Four Gingerbread Men
Four gingerbread men sat on a tray.
The first one said, “Let’s run away!”
The second one said, “Where will we run?”
The third one said, “We’ll have some fun!”
The fourth one said, “We’ll be eaten if we stay.”
So the gingerbread men all ran away!
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“The Gingerbread Man: How to Make Sure He
Can Not Escape!”
Create a Gingerbread Man Book titled,
“The Gingerbread Man: How to Make Sure He Can Not Escape!” using the
ideas in Kim's kid-made books at this website:
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/seasonal_related.html |
In this book, the gingerbread man is not
able to escape because the children bite off arms, legs, and head
(actually tear off parts). You can use an Ellison gingerbread man,
purchase a tablet, or cut your own. |
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Booklet for
students:
“The Gingerbread Man Mystery” from I Can Make It! I Can Read It!
Winter, The Education Center TEC3513 |
Class book to
make:
Complete one page for each child by having them fill in their name
and illustrate the gingerbread man.
“Stop, stop!” said ______________________.
But the Gingerbread Man laughed and said,
“Run, run, as fast as you can!
Your can’t catch me,
I’m the Gingerbread Man.”
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Other
Literacy
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Gingerbread Man Role-play
Use
story character puppets to act out the story.
Character puppets can be printed from this site:
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/gingerbread/felt.htm |
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Gingerbread Man Character Comparison
We read several different versions of the
book, The Gingerbread Man and compared the story characters in each.
Our favorite version was The Stinky Cheese Man.
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George the
Gingerbread Man
Review and reinforce color
recognition by duplicating a gingerbread pattern on brown, blue,
green, orange, black, white, purple, pink, yellow and red
construction paper. Tape a popsicle stick to the back of each to
create a puppet. Then read the following story from the Mailbox
Magazine:
Once upon a time, there was a little gingerbread man named George.
He loved to run and play outside. He loved to cry this chant to his
friends:
Run! Run, as fast as you can!
What color am I? (Hold up the
brown puppet.)
I’m the Gingerbread Man!
Of course, all of George’s friends were very smart. They all knew
that a gingerbread man was…(Pause
for children to say, “Brown!”)
One cay George decided to see if he could fool his smart friends. He
dedided to change himself to a different color. So he covered
himself with blueberry icing. He ran outside to play and cried his
chant to his friends:
Run! Run, as fast as you can!
What color am I? (Hold up the
blue puppet.)
I’m the Gingerbread Man!
Of course all of George’s friends were very smart. They all knew
that blueberry icing was …(Pause
for children to say, “Blue!”)
*But George did not give up. He was sure he could fool his smart
friends. So he changed himself to a different color. He covered
himself with lime icing. He ran outside to play and cried his chant
to his friends:
Run! Run, as fast as you can!
What color am I? (Hold up the
green puppet.)
I’m the Gingerbread Man!
Of course, all of George’s friends were very smart. They all knew
that lime icing was … (Pause
for children to say, “Green!”)
Repeat the story from the *
seven times, each time substituting one of the following icing
flavors and the corresponding puppet color in place of the original
words:
Icing flavor Puppet
color
Pumpkin orange
Licorice black
Vanilla white
Grape purple
Strawberry pink
Lemon yellow
Cherry red
George just could not fool his smart friends! But he was very happy
anyway. All of his friends knew the colors, just as you do.
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