Gingerbread Man

We have been reading a number of different versions of the classic tale: The Gingerbread Man. We have been comparing the stories and talking about the different characters. We have been making predictions about what might happen to the Gingerbread Man at the end of the story.


Today our buddies came down and we read the book The Gingerbread Man: Loose in the School.

Well, our Gingerbread Man has been sitting on my desk all this week. He visited us from my house. This afternoon after Mr. Stead read us our latest Gingerbread man story we discovered our Gingerbread man was gone!

The Gingerbread Man left us a note at the end of the book, saying he did not want to be a snack, and that he was running around the school!

We decided to track him down! 4th graders and Kindergartners worked together to read the clues and walked around the building to find the Gingerbread man! He took us to the library, the cafeteria, to Mrs. Conley, the music room, the gym, the art room, and then the nurse! Finally we read the last clue at the nurse's office and we found him back in Room 113! 

We were all able to decorate our own Gingerbread men that we will hang in the hallway and hopefully they will not run away again! 

It was a fun way to spend our Friday afternoon with our 4th grade buddies!