Jan Brett Day Three - Gingerbread Baby

Reading

Preparation

Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. 

Go to Jan Brett website and size, print out and tape the following animals to craft sticks: dog, pig, goat, cat,  gingerbread baby,(These are printable as big masks, so I copy, size in a word document to smaller, then print) gingerbread house.  Draw a mom and dad and tape them to craft sticks

Materials
Teaching
1. Read book to child
2. Using puppets (characters on craft sticks) have child retell the story of the gingerbread a baby.

Writing
Preparation

On large dotted paper write capital "G" on first line, lower case "g" on second line. On subsequent lines write: ag, et, ig, ill, ot, um, ut

Materials

Paper

Pen or pencil

Teaching

1.Teach child proper formation of capital- and lower case "G."

2. Have child add "g" to each rime ("ag," "et," etc)

 to create new word.
3.Have child read each new word as they create it.

Phonics
Preparation
Write the following: cat, dog, goat, pig, fox, milk, cheese, baby, mother, father, Martha, cookbook, Matti, candy, gingerbread, Madeline, peppermint. Cut out each word
Divide a piece of paper into thirds.  At top of first column write "1," second column :2,: third column "3"
Materials
words
Columned paper

glue stick

Teaching

1. Clap out the syllables in each word with your child.

2. Have child glue the word in the column with number representing the syllables in word (cat, dog, etc go under column labeled one, and so on)

3. See if your child can clap out syllables on their own.

Math

Preparation

Get materials together

Materials

60 plastic bricks (Lego's, etc)

Die (one dice)

Teaching
1. Each person rolls the die and takes that many plastic blocks, linking them together.
2. When you have a stick of 10 blocks, start creating a new stick.
3.The winner is the person who has three sticks of ten, or 30 blocks.

Exploration
Preparation
Get ingredients to make a gingerbread cookie
Write steps to making cookie on pieces of paper with a picture (see example below)

Materials
Ingredients to make a gingerbread cookie
Teaching
1. With your child make a gingerbread man.  (We made an extra large gingerbread baby)
2. Make connections to the book as you measure, mix, pour and bake without peeking!


Art
Preparation
Make icing, gather together small candies, etc.
Materials
gingerbread cookie
icing
candies, etc
Teaching
1. Decorate your gingerbread baby with your child!

My Allergy free Gingerbread Cookie recipe
Sift together:
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup single grain oatmeal (baby food oatmeal)
1/2 cup single grain rice cereal (baby food)
3/4 tsp xanthan gum
2 TBSP Potato starch
1tsp Ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp salt
In a separate bowl cream together:
6 TBSP shortening
6 TBSP brown sugar
4 TBSP Molasses
2 TBSP applesauce
1 TBSP Water
1 1/2 tsp Egg replacer

1.  Mix dry ingredients into wet.
2.  Line cookie pan with tin foil. Put dough on baking sheet.
3. Cover dough with wax paper and roll out.
4.   Carefully cut out cookies, pulling away excess dough.   DO NOT TRY TO LIFT COOKIES!!
5.  Bake 350 for 10-12 minutes.
6.  Cool and decorate!
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda

**This week we are using books by the same author/illustrator, Jan Brett, and will begin each day with reading the book**

Don't forget to do your Daily 4

1.Alphabet

2.  Numbers to 100

3. Child Reading

4. Read to your child at least 5 books (Gingerbread Baby counts as one!)