I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! We enjoyed our day with family and lots of food!!
I finally finished my Gingerbread Unit! Every time I turned around, I wanted to add something to it! This unit really came out of necessity as our distric implemented a new "no food" policy due to allergies. My kiddos always enjoyed creating their Gingerbreadhouses, so I had to think outside of the box. There are several activites that go with this unit,
Glyph~ I asked basic questions and depending on their answer they used various pieces of the house to create their own "Gingerbread House".
I then have them write a persausive paragraph trying to "SELL THAT HOUSE!!" after they have brainstormed with their graphic organizer.
My biggest challenge was how to add in the Math element. I used to give my 5th graders a set budget and each piece of the Gingerbread house was worth a certain value. They "bought" the pieces of their house from the "store" (me!!) and then constructed the house. They kept track in a budget worksheet which had to be submitted with the house. So how do I do that now that food can't be brought into school? Well, I just used seperate pictures of the Gingerbread house and assigned a value to them. They still had to "buy" them from the store and construct their house on construction paper instead. I also gave them various math task cards to have them calculate the various costs of the pieces.
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