This week for Large Group, we read and talked about the story The Gingerbread Man. We practiced using our words as we helped Teacher Heidi tell the story by repeating some of the familiar phrases from the book like, "Run, run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man" We also helped by sequencing who the Gingerbread Man had run away from.
Teacher Heidi brought a pretend oven to our class that she was baking Gingerbread Men in. When she opened the oven, the Gingerbread Men were gone!!!! They had run away and were hiding in our class. We had to find them and help get them back in the oven. When we put them back in the oven, we practiced saying some words that started with "j".
We got up and ran like the Gingerbread Man. We got to choose if we wanted to run fast or slow or even super, super fast!!
We also sang the song Jingle Bells. When we sang the song, we all had an instrument and we played our instrument to the beat of the song.
You can read The Gingerbread Man at home and work on sequencing by asking your child to help you recall the people or animals that the Gingerbread Man runs away from. You can work on answering "wh" questions by asking your child what happened in the story. You can stand up and work on understanding concepts like fast and slow by running the like Gingerbread Man and letting your child choose if you will run fast or slow.
You can watch a reading of The Gingerbread Man by clicking on the link below.
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