To cap off our week of Gingerbread stories, the Kindergartners were challenged to complete their own epic escape adventure. A social distanced escape room in a way! In the stories, the Gingerbread person had to escape several different characters on his way to freedom. In our adventure, the Kindergartners had to escape the oven, the house, the pig, the cow, the crowd, and the final challenge of escaping the fox!
   Each character had a special skill that they Kinders had to practice from rhyming to reading CVC words to even writing a sentence! Over the course of 2 days, the Kinders amazingly escaped all the characters and celebrated with their very own gingerbread playdoh and a gingerbread cookie!
   When we they had the cookie, we also compared who liked gingerbread and who didn't along with what they bit off first. We discovered that nearly every Kinder bit the head off their Gingerbread cookie first!
   It was such an epic adventure and the Kinders were able to show off just how much they know!

This week was one of my favorite weeks in Kindergarten! This week, the Kindergartners read SO many gingerbread character books and we compare/contrasted all the story elements in them! The Kinders compared the setting, characters, the main character, and the repeated words together. Then, the Kinders compared the endings of the story in their very own journals!
   We would talk about the ending and the the Kindergartners would create and write a sentence all of their own! After they wrote their sentence, they drew their picture, which showed the ending and what happened. We discovered that gingerbread books have SO many similar qualities but they all are just a little bit different from one another!