Writers Work Station

There is no better way to get your preschool children writing than setting up a writers work station.  Providing writing opportunities with children everyday will give children the experience to move through the writing stages with ease. 

Providing mini lessons on writing topics through a shared writing experience will be the most effective method in guiding children toward writing on a specific topic.

Have a writing word wall were children are able to physically go and get words to write, will empower them to write their own words to their story.

To help with your writing work station you can go to Teachers Pay Teachers Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook and get the December Writers Work Station Packet.

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or

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 What can be found in the packet.

This is a writer’s work station packet filled with holiday themed papers and prompts that included, book making prompts, story writing prompt sheets, I can draw work sheets and 24 vocabulary and word writing cards and don’t forget a Dear Santa letter writing sheet.  

Lap Book to Big Books Gingerbread Boy Collection

Lap Book to Big Book Gingerbread Boy Collection

The smell of gingerbread is in the air.  What better way to start off the season then with two stories about the Gingerbread Boy

Emergent Readers

Emergent readers are designed to help beginning readers practice reading.  These books give children the opportunity to practice their reading skills.  These books are designed for large group readings and guided reading groups.

Book Has

·         Strong Picture Support

·         Carefully Controlled Text

·         Repetitive Text

This big book collection features two stories about the gingerbread boy.

·                                                                 Gingerbread Boy at the North Pole

·                                                                 Gingerbread Boy on the Farm

Gingerbread Boy at the North Pole

Gingerbread Boy on the Farm

This book can be found on Teachers Pay Teachers

Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Boy Lesson Plan

Retell the story with a pocket chart. Have the charters separate from the sentence strips so the children are able to move the text around and retell it again. This will help to develop oral language and conversation skills.

“I ran past the ________.

“You can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man.”

 

Let the children create their own gingerbread person in the creative art center. 

Add cinnamon and ginger to your favorite play dough recipe.

Have the children do one to one correspondence with different cookies. They can also match and make patterns with the cookies.

Gingerbread Song (to the tune of “The Muffin Man”)

Oh, do you know the Gingerbread Man,

The Gingerbread Man, the Gingerbread Man?

Oh, do you know the Gingerbread Man,

Who ran and ran and ran?

Oh, he ran past the farmer,

The farmer, the farmer.

Oh, he ran past the farmer,

Saying catch me if you can

If you can, if you can.

Oh, he ran past the cow, the cow,

The cow.

Oh, he ran past the cow,

Saying catch me if you can

If you can, if you can.

Oh, he ran past the horse,

The horse, the horse.

Oh, he ran past the horse,

Saying catch me if you can

If you can, if you can.

Oh, do you know the Gingerbread Man

Now catch me if you can.

The Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Boy Lesson Plan

This 118 page lesson is packed full of ideas that will turn your classroom into a gingerbread bakery.  This lesson is full of hands on approach at learning through play that are sure to spark the intrest of all children in your classroom and give them the joy of life long learning.  This lesson will cover large group activities, small group activites, science and math activities, language and literacy activies along with creative art ideas.

You will find in this lesson:

Bakery Bingo Game

Rhyming Memory Game

Gingerbread Memory Game

Math Games

Counting Mats

Sound Sorting Mats

Letter Sorting Mats

Bakery Menu

Word Wall Cards

Pocket Chart Story

You Can’t Catch Me 14 page Early Reader

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Cinnamon Applesauce Dough Ornaments

Your children will enjoy making these ornaments for their parents. It is a great sensory experience for the children with the texture and smell of the dough. Make plenty of dough because the children will want to make more than one. Parents will love them for years to come, with the fresh sent of cinnamon for the holiday. You can also use these ornament for other holiday occasions like Mother’s Day.

What You Will Need:


• 1 1/2 cups ground cinnamon (you can get large containers at the dollar store or warehouse stores)
• 1 cup applesauce
• ¼ cup white school glue
• Large Mixing Bowl
• Wax Paper or Foil
• Plastic Wrap
• Rolling Pins
• Cookie Cutter or Plastic knives for cutting shapes
• Ribbon for hanging
• Straw to make the hole for hanging


How to Make Ornaments

• Mix cinnamon, applesauce and glue together in the large mixing bowl. Dough should be firm.
• Have children roll dough out on wax paper about ¼ inch thick
• Cut into desired shape.
• At the top pock a hole in it for hanging
• Place cut out onto wax paper for drying
• You can embellish ornaments with glitter
• Once dry string ribbon through hole and tie.

This is what the dough should look like when you are done mixing it.

Gingerbread Man Story Extension

Over the last two weeks we have been reading the Gingerbread Man and other variations of the classic tale.

Following the story on the first day the children tried to see if they could catch the Gingerbread Man. They followed clues that lead them through out the school and as they got to each clue they discovered that they had just missed him. On the last clue they ended up in the school kitchen to discover the Gingerbread Man pulling out fresh baked gingerbread cookies for the children to enjoy for the morning snack.

Bringing stories alive will build on the children’s comprehension and vocabulary. It will also help children learn the joy of stories.

Five Gingerbread Kids

Five Gingerbread Kids
Use flannel board pieces as you sing the song.

Five Gingerbread Cookies jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped her head
Mama called the Baker and the Baker said,
“No more Gingerbread Cookies jumping on the bed.”

Four Gingerbread Cookies jumping on the pan
One fell off and bumped his hand
Mama called the Baker and the Baker said,
“No more Gingerbread Cookies jumping on the pan.”

Three Gingerbread Cookies swinging in a tree
One fell off and bumped her knee
Mama called the Baker and the Baker said,
“No more Gingerbread Cookies swinging in a tree.”

Two Gingerbread Cookies standing on a chair
One fell off and bumped his hair
Mama called the Baker and the Baker said,
“No more Gingerbread Cookies standing on a chair.”

One Gingerbread Cookie jumped and did a flip
She fell down and bumped her hip.
Mama called the Baker and the Baker said,
“No more Gingerbread Cookie doing the flip.”

Gingerbread Craft

*Gingerbread people craft

Get out different colors of brown paper, yarn, lace scraps, buttons, glitter, felt scraps, fabric scraps, markers, glue, and scissors. Let the children create their own gingerbread person. Remember do not pre-cute or pre-draw on the brown paper let them do it themselves so that it is their project and not the teacher’s project.

Gingerbread Lesson Ideas

Gingerbread Boy Lesson Plan

Cognitive Development
*Gingerbread Boy Color Bingo GamePrepare a supply of gingerbread children with color dots on the hands, feet, and for the buttons. Make color button cards. Have children flip the color button cards and identify the color. Once the color has been identified have the children place a matching color pom pom on that button.

*Gingerbread Memory
Build their vocabulary and compression with object memory. Get objects that correspond with the gingerbread story. (rolling pin, cookie sheet, gingerbread man, cow, horse and fox) Have the children name all object that you have. Once they have named the object place two and a tray and have them tell you what two are on the tray. Next place a cloth over the tray and pick up one object with the cloth. See if the children can identify which object is missing. Repeat until all children have had a turn.

Gingerbread Boy Lesson Plan