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12-28-2004, 02:17 AM
I teach a 4 yr.old Pre-K class. We will be making gingerbread cookies on 12/30/04. When we go to the kitchen to get the cooled cookies at snack time one of the gingerbread men will have "escaped" and be missing! We will look for him, but will not be able to find him! I need picture postcards sent from as many states as possible telling the class that he was spotted and that he asked that the writer notify us that he is OK and having a great time.

As postcards come in we will place gingerbread man stickers on a map of the US showing the locations of the "sightings". We will graph the number of cards we receive from each state, and try to learn about new places by looking at the pictures on the cards.

If you place your name and address on the return address spot on the card, I will send you a letter when we finish the month's study and let you know how the unit succeeded and the total number of cards received.

We will try to "trap him" around the end of Jan. by baiting a gingerbread house with plenty of candy to lure him home! (Of course, he'll show up after a couple of days!) Now the only question is: What will the children want to do with a widely traveled gingerbread man when he finally comes back?! Eat him? Free him to run again? What do you think?

Send postcards and/or comments to :Sandra Francis & her Pre-K Class
PO Box 176, Jackson, MO 63755
0R email: sfrancis2@sbcglobal.net

Unregistered
01-05-2005, 08:30 PM
I would love to help you on your quest of the Gingerbread man
I teach in Tucson Arizona and teach Kindergarten my e-mail address is
theresa.mcbutchart@tusd.k12.az.us

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01-07-2005, 08:24 AM
I will e-mail you Sat. (1-8-05) with an update of how the idea is going. I'm always interested in any help I can get! I've been told we have cards coming from Japan, Germany, a destroyer in the Pacific ocean (well, actually that one will be an e-mail), and about 15 different states. We'll see...

The class is fascinated that we can go to the post office and actually get the cards. They thought I hid the cookie (imagine that!) and was "playing a game with them", but when we actually picked up the postcard at the post office and they saw the real stamp it suddenly took on a new twist.

More Saturday, Sandra in Jackson, MO