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Nov 4, 2018
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Gingerbread Man Theme and Lesson Plans for Playful Learning in Preschool!

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Gingerbread Man Theme for Preschool

Gingerbread Man Theme and Lesson Plans for Playful Learning in Preschool!

There are few things as exciting as learning with a Gingerbread Man Theme as the holidays approach. Preschoolers delight in the cookie who jumps off a baking sheet for adventures. Engage your own preschoolers at home or in the classroom with a playful learning Gingerbread Man Theme for preschool.

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What You’ll Get in the Gingerbread Man Theme:

  • The Gingerbread Man Theme for preschoolers is a 102 (total) page unit that includes enough activities for at least two weeks’ worth of lessons. If you plan to use the unit to accompany core studies for one week only, you will have many activities left for a “new” unit the following year.
  • The Gingerbread Man theme includes 26 math, science, and literacy activities for preschoolers to learn through play.
  • The theme also includes numerous songs, poems, art and crafts activities, gross motor ideas, cooking activities, dramatic play, and book suggestions.
  • The Gingerbread Man thematic unit comes with detailed instructions for all games, projects and activities, & 24 printable pdf files (some include multiple pages for literacy, science, or math activities) that are ready to download and print with pictures to help prepare the activities.
  • Suggestions for younger or slightly older children are given where possible throughout the theme.

Gingerbread Man Theme for Preschoolers

Examples of Activities You’ll Find in the IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD:

  • Introductions for your Gingerbread Man Theme – ideas on engaging preschoolers with exciting learning opportunities.
  • 30 of our favorite Gingerbread book titles (some are listed below) to read during circle or story time throughout your unit.
  • Songs/Poems/Fingerplays to learn with your unit – 10 Little Ginger Kids, Stir a Bowl of Gingerbread, The Ginger Song, and more!
  • Literacy Activities – 10 Literacy Centers including: The Traveling Gingerbread Man, Letter Matching, Gingerbread Tracing Lines, Do You Like Gingerbread?, and more.
  • Math Activities – 12 Math Centers including: Gingerbread Order Number, Measuring Gingerbread Man (non-standard), Gingerbread Cookie Sorting, Gingerbread Musical Number Find, and more.
  • Science Activities – 4 Science explorations with simple set-up including: the Melting Gingerbread Man, Not Just Cookies, and more.
  • Art and Craft Suggestions for use with you Gingerbread Man Unit – complete with photos to serve as a guide.
  • Large Motor and Dramatic Play Suggestions to get kids moving and playing throughout your Gingerbread Man Unit.

Gingerbread Man Books for Preschoolers

Some Suggested Gingerbread Books our own preschoolers love:

The Gingerbread Man from Parragon Books

Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett

Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray

The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas by Laura Murray

The Gingerbread Mouse by Katy Bratun

The Gingerbread Man by Catherine McCafferty

 

Please note:

The Gingerbread Man Thematic Unit – Copyright ©The Preschool Toolbox. All rights reserved by authors. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal/homeschool use only.

 

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