The Gingerbread Man

One of the special activities we did this week before winter break was a gingerbread day.  We read multiple versions of The Gingerbread Man and compared them.  Sometimes the wolf caught the gingerbread man, sometimes he did not and there were lots of different animals and people who chased the gingerbread man.  The kids really enjoyed joining in to read "Run, run as fast as you can.  You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man."  At the end of the last book I read was a clue left by a gingerbread man, it said "Walk, walk as best you can.  You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man." and then it had a clue.  The kids were great about walking from place to place, when we got the last clue to go to the classroom my students were thrilled to find they had catch the gingerbread man in the classroom.  Then during centers we counted buttons on gingerbread men and matched them to the correct number and we wrote about what might be chasing the gingerbread man.  Below are some neat examples of what the students wrote about.