Today is one of my two places at once days. The amazing Shell of Things I Can’t Say invited me to come and share something that is on my heart on Her blog. To say that I was thrilled to be asked doesn’t full explain how I felt.
Shell is a big blogger with her feet on the ground. Her blog posts are filled with heart, humor, and love. While I was just content to be a her friend, I am over the moon about sharing my words in her world.
If you get a chance, please stop by and read them.
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This week I am going to share a wonderful children’s book called The Gingerbread Man Loose in School by Laura Murray.
This wonderful tale of the gingerbread man searching his school for his class is such fun. He wanders the hall looking for them and gets to meet various school employees and see where they work. The school nurse, coach, principal, and art teacher are all visited.
Finally the gingerbread man finds them and finds that they were look for him.
This books is presented in a comic book style. There are multiple areas of text and illustrations on the page. JDaniel didn’t have trouble following this story though.
What did we do with the book The Gingerbread Man Loose in School?
A gingerbread man cookie cutter filled with bran cereal and a few items to decorate him with was JDaniel’s afternoon snack on his first day of school.
The raisins taken out of the bran cereal, a few candy corns, and a couple grapes were the decoration options.
JDaniel loved each and every item in this snack. He did not feel like creating a gingerbread man with the decorations though. He did inhaled all of the food. A few stray bran flakes were left on the floor, but that is all.
JDaniel and I sat down to review four sections of the body using word/picture cards, a sandpaper gingerbread man, and some items to decorate with with.
I sounded out the words on each card after he told me what body part was pictured. When we had reviewed each card a few times and he had found that section on his body, he had decorated that section.
Boogs saw your gingerbread man snack and book and said,”Whoa, that looks like a cool book.” I will have to try and it.
Totally craving gingerbread now…
Your posts are so inspiring!!! Love the creativity!
Loved the gingerbread snack…loved the viking boat…and I thought the great wall was a rice crispies snake! 😀
The Great Wall of China is awesome! I also love the sensory bottles.
Thank you so much for featuring my sensory bottles!
I’ve added you to my weekly Friday post- really like your link up! thanks for hosting
Loved your post over at Shell’s! I commented for you! 🙂 Happy Labor day…enjoy your family time! 🙂
I love that you were able to make this into such a great learning opportunity. Many parents would see this as just a book (myself included) but you found a way to turn it into a complete lesson and I am in awe of that ability!
Thank you for featuring my post! I always love your ideas and everyone else’s. That looks like a fun version of the gingerbread man.
What an awesome idea!! And totally going to check out that book to review on my site!
that gingerbread snack would have been inhaled by broxton too 🙂
I loved the gingerbread snack.. that is way too cool.
You are so creative..
I have a grandson that lives 4 miles from me and I get to go to his house and read to him a lot.. This summer I took him to the library and he had so much fun checking out books and getting rewards for reading..or having me read to him..Ben is 5 and is going to Kindergarden.. He loves it..~! he can hardly wait to learn how to read. This summer he learned some words ~ but he wants more and more.
Have a great week-=end.. ta ta for now from Iowa~!
This sounds like a fun and cute book.
I loved your idea of the bran flakes in the gingerbread man cutter! A very clever idea! It must be gingerbread week….We just made gingerbread men today at our house 🙂
I love your gingerbread snack! Candy Corns always make me think of Disney World, they used to sell them in little boxes, and you can’t get them in the UK.
xx
Ooh I like the simplicity of the Gingerbread snack! What a great idea!!!
Maggy
What a fun activity. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Sharefest. I hope you have a great week.
Love the idea of an ‘assemble your own snack’ – great fun
Another cute and simple snack!
I hadn’t heard of this book but it sounds silly – which is a sure way to tell it will be a hit at our house! lol!