We finally caught our Gingerbread Girl.

Two weeks ago we started this Gingerbread Man theme in my class. The kids absolutely loved it! We read tons of different versions of The Gingerbread Man and made lots of gingerbread man goodies. We created a big Gingerbread Girl out of brown bulletin board paper. We folded the paper in half to make her so she would be symmetrical. I actually traced the body from one of the other first grade teachers’ Gingerbread Man who had to hide in my file cabinet. Well, because I traced hers, then mine also looked like a Gingerbread Man. One of my students told me to give her a rainbow skirt so she’d be a girl. I happily complied! I even gave her red hair because in the book the Gingerbread Girl she has red hair made out of licorice.

When the kids went to specials, our Gingerbread Girl left!! We found lots of her hair in the hallway. We don’t know how she escaped since our classroom door was locked. She left us clues each day. My mom came and decorated my classroom door as a gingerbread house. The whole first grade was in on it though. We had a missing Gingerbread Girl, one of the other teachers had a missing Gingerbread Man, and the other had a missing Gingerbread Baby. We even made Gingerbread House traps to try and catch the baby. I think the baby is still missing.

We found our Girl in the special ed. teacher’s room on Wednesday. She turned back into paper and left us some Gingerbread Man cookies and gingerbread man tattoos. The whole thing was so hilarious. The kids told the funniest stories. One girl said her bus driver ran over one of the gingerbread people. Another girl said she saw the boy and girl on her street and she tried to catch them. Another one said he dreamed that all gingerbread people would come to life, and then they did! They were really so into it.

One week left. This week is going to be crazy. I’ll be glad when it’s over.

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