| Gingerbread Men Geography 2010 |
| Every year during the month of December my preschool/childcare learns some geography through reports of our traveling gingerbread men and we need your help to make this happen! On Monday, November 29, 2010, after reading a version of The Gingerbread Man, the children and I will work together to make, bake, and decorate a batch of gingerbread men. But, alas, just like every other year, our gingerbread men will give us the slip when our backs are turned. We will search around our classroom and find clues like dropped candy buttons and icing smudges on the door. We will ask our neighbors to keep an eye out. Our little guys are seen all over the place but they are just too fast to be caught! So we will have to enlist aid of all our family and friends worldwide to help us track their travels. Here's where we could use your help. If you happen to 'see' one of our gingerbread men in your neighborhood, please send us a postcard from your town, state, or country letting us know what our little guy was doing. As we read the postcards, we place a small gingerbread man sticker on our wall map and globe. We also learn a little about the area the postcard came from. i.e. culture, holidays, clothing, climate, animals, etc. One year we had 118 postcards! Twenty-three U.S. states were represented, as well as 7 foreign countries! We hope to even better this year! Please forward our request to your family and friends! You can begin mailing postcards immediately! Our unit will end on December 17, 2010 when we read Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby and one of my bright youngsters will come up with the idea of making a gingerbread house to trick our fellows into returning home. Please send postcards to Greatest Resource Edu-Care 3505 N 143rd Ave Goodyear, AZ 85395 Thank you for the world of my childcare / preschool children! |
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| Read all about our 2008 Gingerbread Men sightings! |