Gingerbread Everything and FREEBIE for this week ONLY

We decided to make Gingerbread men but our cookies will be have decided to leave our school. Our Gingerbread men will be traveling all the way to Rockwall, Texas to Mrs. Beasley's class. In order for her students to determine whose cookie belongs to whom we must pay attention to the details as we write to her class describing our Gingerbread. We reviewed adjectives to make sure that we write using words that will create a clear, picture in our reader's mind.

Look at these little cuties!! There's not a doubt in my mind that their writing will be just a creative and detailed. We will be writing tomorrow. EEEKK!

Before math today we read The Gingerbread Baby and discussed the kind of Gingerbread house we would create for him. The only problem was they had to use base 10 blocks AND they had to be able to tell the NUMBER that they used. Look at some of these super cute homes for the baby.

A little math fun for everyone has kept us busy this week too.

You can pick these up this week for FREE at my tpt store.

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