Run, Run as Fast as You Can, You Can't Catch Me, I'm the Gingerbread Man

During the week of December 10th - 14th, our class enjoyed reading different versions of the story, "The Gingerbread Boy".  We compared the different stories and discussed the differences in characters, setting and how the stories ended!  We read the "The Gingerbread Cowboy", "The Gingerbread Girl", "The Gingerbread Boy in the Library" and many more.  The children were excited to talk about how the stories were the same and different!

Well, you can't read all those stories about Gingerbread boys without baking your very own.  So, of course, Mrs. Allan, our wonderful baker, helped the students bake gingerbread cookies.  We baked a tray of little gingerbread cookies and one big gingerbread boy.  

Mrs. Allan and Mrs. Ducharme baked the cookies after school.  The next day, when we walked down to the kitchen to get our gingerbread cookies, we discovered the big gingerbread boy was missing!!!  We found rhyming clues next to the oven and then the excitement began!

Our hunt lead us to the office, where Mrs. Vickerd and Mr. Arundine helped us look.  We found more clues and we continued our hunt to the library!

After the library, the clues lead us to Mr. Klassen's grade eight classroom, but guess what?  The gingerbread boy had tricked us again.  Next we were off to the music room!

Finally, in the music room, we found the big gingerbread boy cookie.  Guess who else we found?  Our class "elf on the shelf" Jessie!  So, how did our gingerbread boy cookie get to the music room?  Was it like the story and he ran away?  Did Jessie trick us and hide the cookie?  

Even though the hunt was over, the children were still so very excited!  Many of the students drew pictures and wrote words to tell about our adventures.  As a class, we made a map to show where our hunt took us throughout the school.  We used our "best guess spelling" to label our map.  Some of the students went on to make their very own maps about the hunt!  What a great adventure in kindergarten!