Today was a day in kindergarten my friends will never forget. We made a "real" gingerbread man in class and when we were finished we voted if our cookie was going to be a boy or girl and what it's name should be. We decided as a class it should be a boy and the name that had the most votes was "Ginger." Next it was time for special storytime in the LMC windowed hallway. This is when all 6 kindergarten classes met in the windowed hallway and I read them all The Gingerbread Man Loose In The School. They LOVED the story and they all did wonderful listening and chiming into the rhyming parts as we read it together. To ensure our gingerbread man didn't run away while we were goine, we put it on shelf, locked it in the bathroom, and put many chairs against it so it couldn't get out of the door. We even locked our classroom door too. When we walked back to our class after our special storytime, we found cookie crumbs scattered all over our classroom rug, the chairs and lunch bins were flipped over. The gingerbread man had run away but left us a note explaining that he was off to explore at Olive and then our hunt began....we had to try to catch that gingerbread man! We went on our hunt with two other kindergarten classes because their gingerbread cookies had run away too. With having 6 sections of kindergarten this year, we split the groups in half (3 classes together) to make it more fun and ensure we were able to stick together. In kindergarten we always say "Teamwork is the dreamwork!" We decided to look for our cookies together. After looking all over the school, we came to our last clue in the school office. The gingerbread man explained how much fun he had visiting our school but that he had to leave and left us some gingerbread cookies to eat instead. It was such a fun day in K-1! Here are some pictures of our fun hunt below:
