Put a fork in meโฆ Iโm D.O.N.E! Is teaching always this hard the week before holiday break?! WHEW!ย
Weโve been keeping busyโฆ busyโฆ busy!ย
Weโve finally finished up our Gingerbread unit and wrote a persuasive letter to the Jolly Man himself!ย
First upโฆ our Gingerbread Unitโฆ
We started off our unit by reading a classic retelling of , โThe Gingerbread Manโ. After reading the story, we worked on a retell of the fairy tale using this three tab sheet.ย
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Loved how we went back to the book if we couldnโt remember a detailโฆย
Our finished productsโฆ ย
The next day, we read a different version of, โThe Gingerbread Manโ. This time we read, โThe Gingerbread Cowboyโ After reading this version, each student got two sticky notes to write one similarity between the stories and one difference. As they finished, they stuck their note under the correct section on our interactive anchor chart.ย
We combed through each sticky to make sure they were organized in the correct section.ย
During our Literacy Centers, the kiddos had a chance to listen to another version of the tale on the Ipadsโฆย
using these QR codes. (Iโve just added this listening station to my Gingerbread unit, so if you have it, be sure to re-download!)ย
Then it was time to write compare and contrast paragraphs of two of our choice versionsโฆย
After reading and comparing on our own, it was time to actually write our own retelling of, โThe Gingerbread Manโ. Using verbs found in the books as a guide, students wrote their own telling of the classic tale.ย
Love the flower in the hair on this one!ย
and donโt be fooled by the lengthโฆ there are 2 other pages under that sheet! I told you my kids were writers!ย
You can grab all these fun gingerbread activities in my Gingerbread unit here!ย
We also worked a little on our persuasive writing skills this week while writing a letter to Santa.ย
ย To complete these, each student chose one special item the wanted for Christmas. It could be anything they wanted, but it only be one. Then they wrote a letter to Santa persuading him to bring that one special itemโฆ We finished off this fun little activity with a fun Santa.
ย I love that my kids still love getting crafty with this primary teacher at heart!
ย You can grab these fun little crafts here in my TpT Storeโฆย
Now I must get going! I just remembered I am suppose to bring 18 gingerbread man cookies for tomorrowโs party and itโs already almost 10 pm! WAAAAYYY past this teacherโs bed time!ย