Gingerbread Man Fun

This lesson will allow students to demonstrate sense of beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will also use various objects to create patterns comparing these objects using appropriate vocabulary (small, medium, large).

A lesson plan for grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics

By Rebecca Jones

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Learning outcomes

Students will:

• repond to a story in the form of a picture story determing the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
• establish patterns using objects and then verbally repeat their patterns.

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

2 days

Materials/resources

• The Gingerbread Man Retold by Jim Aylesworth
• Student’s Journal or plain drawing paper
• Whiteboard or chalkboard
• Computer with Kid Pix Studio Deluxe
• Pencils and eraser

Technology resources

Computer with Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Three or another drawing program.

Pre-activities

Ask the children have they ever seen a gingerbread boy. Elicit from them whether they think they will ever see a gingerbread boy that is alive.

Activities

1. Read The Gingerbread Man retold by Jim Aylesworth
2. Discuss the sequence of the story and ask students to predict what will happen next. After the story has being read talk about the beginning, middle, and end of the story. On the whiteboard or chalkboard, teacher can illustrate the main points to show the what happened at the beginning of the story, in the middle of the story, and finally at the end of the story.
3. Then allow the students time to illustrate the beginng, middle, and end in their journals or have students use the computer program Kid Pix Studio Deluxe to illustrate their favorite part of the story. Students who are ready will sound out the phonetic spelling of the characters that they have drawn.
4. Have the students use the computer program Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Three to stamp out Christmas patterns. They can use three sizes: small, medium, and large to make the AB, ABC, and AAB patterns.

Assessment

• Observation of children working with computer stamping patterns, illustrating their favorite part on the computer or as drawings in their journals
• Creation of new words as students write about what is happening in their illustration.
• Documentation of student work kept in student portfolios.

Supplemental information

• The Gingerbread Man Retold by Jim Aylesworth
• Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
• Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett

Related websites

This site has a gingerbread shape that can be used for journeling or making a class book.
http://www.abcteach.com
This site has a wonderful unit about Gingerbread. http://www.kinderkorner.com

Comments

December is the perfect time to teach this Gingerbread unit. I also incorperate the Five Senses at the same time. I usually read three different versions of the Gingerbread Man so we can compare and contrast the stories.