AND Creative Arts/Dramatic Play participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more extended and complex. Language Development/Listening & Understanding demonstrates increasing ability to attend to and understand conversations, stories, songs, and poems.

Ask the children what kind of cookies they made? Ask the children if they have ever eaten gingerbread? Tell them that today’s story is about a gingerbread cookie. Walk them through the steps from mixing in the bowl to putting on the tray, cooking in the oven, taking out of the oven, and putting them on the rack to cool. First we have to get a great big bowl to put all the ingredients into. Peek (look inside to see how what’s in there is doing)Īsk the children if they have ever helped to bake cookies? What are some of the steps you have to do, where do you put the cookies to cook? Say to the children let’s pretend to bake cookies.Worn-looking (old and kind of beat up from use).This book encourages the reader to do good observations. Jan Brett draws beautiful illustrations with many details and clues of what’s to come. You could read both and compare or just read this one and enjoy. This is a varied version of the classic gingerbread man. Helping Your Child to become Creative so that they can help change the world.īook Play Everyday Teaching Preschoolers Through the Love of Books.

Helping Your Preschooler Prepare for Reading.Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.The Value of Play Dough in Early Childhood.The Importance of Teaching Classroom Rules.

Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett