Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread: Poems

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Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread

Sign Up for your free ProTeacher account. I am having my kids make gingerbread house frames for a parent gift and was wondering if anyone knew of a little poem that might go along with it? I made a house of gingerbread. It won't let me post it the other way, sorry Bananabucksub. Here's another cute one: Thread Tools Printable Version Tweet.

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All times are GMT The time now is Do not copy, reproduce or transmit. Finally, have each student illustrate their writing. Bind together to make a class book! You make your own blacklines or use our found on our CD. Click to learn more! The student pages say. Run run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man.

And I'll run away from you! Save room for the students to illustrate this paragraph. Copy page one- two for each student or supply each of your students with six gingerbread cutouts.

Have the student decorate the gingerbread men. Then they need to cut them out. If you are making your own cover it may say; One Yummy Gingerbread Man by: Supply the students with a page for each gingerbread man. You can have the pages pre-programmed with the words or you can have the students write the words on each page. Student will need each of the pages: The directions are for each page.

Have your student do the following and then glue their gingerbread man on to the page. The first thing I ate was the leg. Eat the other leg. Boy did that leg taste good! After I ate one leg I ate the other leg. Next, I ate an arm. Eat the other arm. Then I ate the other arm. Next I ate the head.

Tear him up to make crumbs Thiis page says: To the right you will see the cover of my book and two finished pages from the book. You could have your students illustrate a background for each page. In large bowl, cream shortening, sugar, egg and warmed molasses. Dissolve baking soda in warm water and add to egg mixture. Mix in flour, spices and salt until well blended.

Cover and chill for 24 hours. Preheat oven to degrees F. Cut out gingerbread men using cookie cutters and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Use raisins to make eyes, noses and buttons.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm. Let cool on wire racks. A Compounds Words Center. You could use this center idea in a pocket chart or you may wish to bag the pieces and make a take it to your seat center. I always include an activity sheet to match hands-on centers. This way I know that the student completed the center and understood it. Gingerbread Compound Words Center. Make it Your Self: Make cut-out of gingerbread men and equal cut-outs of gingerbread girls.

Place the first part of a word on the girl and the second on a boy. Have the student match a gingerbread man and women together that make a compound word. Then create a center sheet for them to complete. Your sheet might include activities such as: Match a gingerbread man up with a gingerbread woman to form a compound word. If you did it correctly you made 8 compound words. Write the eight words you made in the table below.

Choose two of the words to draw a picture of.

Now choose two different compound words from your list and use each one in a sentence. P rint the pre-made gingerbread people on cardstock or tag-board. Store in a Tupperware container or a large Ziploc bag. Make as many sets as needed. You can use this in a center as a compound word activity. Then have them write the compound word on the center sheet. The center sheet is titled gingerbread compound center sheet and is found on this CD. Laura Rieben A Gingerbread Roll and dot! Gingerbread Files Gingerkids song for shared reading, number sight word recognition, concepts of print, etc.

I also included a page of gingerbread counters for hands-on experiences for counting and matching objects to the number words. Match the number cards, words and value in a pocket chart or at a learning station. Marlana Howerton of Lil' Country Kindergarten. The house in the middle is a box from the Dollar Store. They love this activity!!! Make a big deal out of all the items they find! Count them together and talk about what they found the most and least of! As a center activity, give the students small paper plates with one numeral written on each plate.

Ask the students to place the number of Gingerbread cookies erasers on each plate or card, according to the numeral written on the plate. Make a graph using all the characters from all the stories. Find out which characters appear in the most versions. Guess who comes in first?? Children color it based on specific instructions. I used the following: If you are a girl, color the eyes blue. If you are a boy, color the eyes green. If you are 5 years old, color the nose red.

If you are six years old color the nose orange. If your favorite activity is reading, color the buttons yellow If your favorite activity is sports, color the buttons purple. After the children finish these you can hang them on a bulletin board with the title, "Our Gingerbread Glyphs" and the key. Now you can use this bulletin board as a center activity. Make a question sheet the students will use at the center.

How many girls are in our class? The students would answer the questions and turn in the sheet. It includes everything you need to help make your class display. To the right you will see what is on the CD to match this lesson. A Yummy Graph Idea. Bake or purchase one gingerbread cookie for each student in your class. Hand out the cookies and instruct each student to take one bite. They can only take one bite and they must choose to bite the head, one of the arms, or one of the legs.

Create a graph as a class and have the students create one at their desks as you create yours. Now have the students work with a partner to answer questions about the graph Some of the questions on your sheet might include: What did you eat first?

What gingerbread part was eaten first the most? Which gingerbread part was eaten first the least? How many students ate the head first? How many students ate the right arm first? How many students ate the left arm first? How many students ate the right leg first? How many students ate the left leg first?

Before you start this lesson your students will need some background knowledge of area and perimeter. Hand out a blackline of a gingerbread man. The gingerbread man should fill a sheet of paper. The directions at the top of the sheet could say: You teacher will give you three small Ziploc baggies. One is filled with marshmallows, one is filled with Red Hots, and the last is filled with raisins.

Your teacher will do the first one with you! Do one with the class and allow them to do the other two on their own. They will fill out a sheet as they go. Some of the questions may include: I created a roll and graph activity you can use as a center or as a game. You can make your own rules; but, here are some suggestions: Students roll the dice a given amount of times.

They fill in the graph as they roll. Once they have rolled the dice a given amount, dicuss results. Or have the students roll the dice till one of the items on the graph is completely filled in. Lots of hands on fun with graphing that you can modify to meet your students needs!!! Gingerbread Preschool and Kindergarten Packet!!! Sort Marshmallows onto a sorting sheet! You can get the sorting sheet we used here. These games will review counting and sorting skills. The object is to collect as many Gingerbread Men as you can.

Shuffle cards face down in center of two to four players. Players take turns drawing one card. If they draw a gingerbread man card they keep the card. If they draw a heart card, they keep that card. If they draw a fox, they must put all the gingerbread and heart cards they have collected back into the pile.

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If they draw part of the house, they place it face up in the center so that players can build the puzzle as they play. The game is finished when the six pieces of the house are put together in the center of the table. Finally, players count up all their gingerbread men they have collected. Heart cards are not part of the count. The player who has the largest amount of gingerbread men is the winner. Below you see one player has a score of 6 and another of 8. Give each player a sorting card to lay the cards they collect as they play.

This is an optional card and does not need to me used to play. Click to download Gingerbread Counting Game! I love the Gingerbread Baby. My Favorite Ginger Story! Click for Some Activities To Match. Compare and Contrast this story with your class. Read the book above and The Gingerbread Boy. Then discuss what was the same in the stories and what was different. Have teams fill in this Venn Diagram as a team effort. Finally make two Gingerbread Boy shaped patterns and one heart for each student to cut out.

On the heart have the students write a similarity of the two books and on the gingerbread cut outs have them write a difference.

Place the finished product on the bulletin board. Design Your Own Gingrebread Friend. In this sequel, The Gingerbread Baby is lonely and needs a friend. Where should he look to find a friend? Find out when you read about his Gingerbread Friends adventure.

Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread: Poems

The Gingerbread Baby is found looking for a friend to live in the house Mattie made for him. The Rabbi was accustomed to having his young students make houses of bread to eat over time to nourish the hope for their Messiah. The Magus suggested adding ground-up ginger to the bread for zest and flavor. Gingerbread, as we know it today, descends from Medieval European culinary traditions. Gingerbread was also shaped into different forms by monks in Franconia , Germany in the 13th century. Lebkuchen bakers are recorded as early as in Ulm and in Nuremberg , Germany. Nuremberg was recognized as the "Gingerbread Capital of the World" when in the s the guild started to employ master bakers and skilled workers to create complicated works of art from gingerbread.

During the 13th century, the custom spread across Europe. It was taken to Sweden in the 13th century by German immigrants; there are references from Vadstena Abbey of Swedish nuns baking gingerbread to ease indigestion in Spices used are ginger , cinnamon , cloves , nutmeg and cardamom. Gingerbread figurines date back to the 15th century, and figural biscuit-making was practised in the 16th century.

The gingerbread bakers were gathered into professional baker guilds. In many European countries gingerbread bakers were a distinct component of the bakers' guild. Gingerbread baking developed into an acknowledged profession. In the 17th century only professional gingerbread bakers were permitted to bake gingerbread except at Christmas and Easter, when anyone was allowed to bake it.

In Europe gingerbreads were sold in special shops and at seasonal markets that sold sweets and gingerbread shaped as hearts, stars, soldiers, babies, riders, trumpets, swords, pistols and animals. Religious gingerbread reliefs were purchased for the particular religious events, such as Christmas and Easter. The decorated gingerbreads were given as presents to adults and children, or given as a love token, and bought particularly for weddings, where gingerbreads were distributed to the wedding guests. The most intricate gingerbreads were also embellished with iced patterns, often using colours, and also gilded with gold leaf.

Gingerbread moulds often displayed actual happenings, by portraying new rulers and their consorts, for example. During the winter months medieval gingerbread pastries, usually dipped in wine or other alcoholic beverages, were consumed. In America, the German-speaking communities of Pennsylvania and Maryland continued this tradition until the early 20th century. The tradition of making decorated gingerbread houses started in Germany in the early s. According to certain researchers, the first gingerbread houses were the result of the well-known Grimm 's fairy tale " Hansel and Gretel " [3] in which the two children abandoned in the forest found an edible house made of bread with sugar decorations.

After this book was published, German bakers began baking ornamented fairy-tale houses of lebkuchen gingerbread. These became popular during Christmas, a tradition that came to America with Pennsylvanian German immigrants. In modern times the tradition has continued in certain places in Europe.

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