Gingerbread Man Theme 2017

Recap of the last two weeks as we followed a Gingerbread Man Theme.

Our two weeks worth of our Montessori Inspired trays:

1. Beginning blend family sort

2. Sandpaper numbers and buttons

3. Place value with gingerbread men (tens) and buttons (ones)

4. Read to your Gingerbread Baby

5. Gingerbread man sewing 

6. Beginning letter sound boxes

7. Toys and textiles from India exploration 

1. Felt gingerbread man 

2. Gingerbread man sound box match

3. Gingerbread man dot cards, numerals and buttons

4. Beginning letter sound and object match

5. Roll and count buttons on the gingerbread man

6. Gingerbread man story 3 part cards

7. Gingerbread man retelling story rocks

A favorite advent activity we do each year is to build a cardboard gingerbread house. It’s evolved so differently each year. The size and style of boxes we are able to get our hands on has a major role in how they are built. But no matter their form the girls love playing, Reading, coloring whatever each December. 

This year it’s made of boxes, paper plates and some red paint. That’s it!


Here are the Invitations I set out for the girls these two weeks:

Invitation to build: Can you build a gingerbread house using play dough?

Invitation to Draw: What do you think the inside of a gingerbread house may look like? (using chalk pastels)

Invitation to Draw: How many gingerbread men can you trace to fit onto one sheet of paper?

Invitation to Build: Can you build a bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross the river?

Invitation to Learn: Why can't the Gingerbread Man just simply swim across the river?





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PlayDoh:
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Sandpaper Numbers with box:
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Sandpaper Letters:
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Place Value Numbers 1 -9999
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