The Gingerbread Man

Well, what a busy few weeks we have had in FS2!

Ask your child to retell the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’! We have been working very hard on our speaking skills and have rehearsed telling the story in a clear voice using actions to help us remember the sequence. We have been acting out the story using masks, puppets and small world characters. The fox at the end of the story prompted much discussion! Should he have eaten the poor Gingerbread man?

We wrote story maps to help us retell the story. Ask your child to show you how to do this! They are a fantastic way to encourage story telling language and work for any stories you may share at home.

We cooked our own delicious gingerbread men, and decorated them with an icing tube (tricky for little fingers). We ate them up before they ran away too!! Some of us didn’t like the taste of ginger; we discussed our own likes and dislikes. The root ginger confused some of us! It looked very different to the powdered ginger we used when cooking. There were lots of interesting ideas of what it could be.

Mixing powdered ginger into paint created some very fragrant artwork.

Next week we will be exploring the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. Watch this space for more exciting story maps and retellings.