We have been reading some of our favorite Gingerbread stories. Yesterday, we read The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth as well as The Gingerbread Man by Louise Martin. We compared both stories and discussed the similarities and differences. In both stories, the old man and old woman make a gingerbread man, he pops out of the oven and runs from many people that try to eat him, he gets tricked by a fox and gets eaten. In Jim Aylesworth's version, The Gingerbread Man is eaten because the fox pretends not to hear the fox so he goes closer to the fox, but the Louise Martin version he is afraid to cross the river so the fox offers to "help" him across.
Today, we read The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst. In this story, she pops out of the oven, runs away, stops at the river where she runs into the fox. She also doesn't want to go in the river, so she hops on the fox's back, but tricks the fox and rides him home. We enjoyed reading along, comparing, and retelling these fantastic stories, but we still had one big question: Why are the Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl afraid to go in the river? Some of us thought that they didn't know how to swim or that the river was too long to cross, but we still wanted to know more...
So in the afternoon, with the help of our 6th grade buddies, we did a science experiment. We each got a cup of water and a gingerbread cookie. First, we recorded what our gingerbread man looked like when he was not wet. Then, we wrote and drew our predictions about what might happen. Finally, we dropped in the cookie and waited a few minutes to find out. We quickly discovered why the river was scarier than the fox! The gingerbread cookie was breaking apart and dissolving fast. We now have a much better understanding of why the Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl did not want to go in the river. We are looking forward to many more gingerbread books to come this week!
We have been reading some of our favorite Gingerbread stories. Yesterday, we read The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth as well as The Gingerbread Man by Louise Martin. We compared both stories and discussed the similarities and differences. In both stories, the old man and old woman make a gingerbread man, he pops out of the oven and runs from many people that try to eat him, he gets tricked by a fox and gets eaten. In Jim Aylesworth's version, The Gingerbread Man is eaten because the fox pretends not to hear the fox so he goes closer to the fox, but the Louise Martin version he is afraid to cross the river so the fox offers to "help" him across. 
Today, we read The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst. In this story, she pops out of the oven, runs away, stops at the river where she runs into the fox. She also doesn't want to go in the river, so she hops on the fox's back, but tricks the fox and rides him home. We enjoyed reading along, comparing, and retelling these fantastic stories, but we still had one big question: Why are the Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl afraid to go in the river? Some of us thought that they didn't know how to swim or that the river was too long to cross, but we still wanted to know more...
So in the afternoon, with the help of our 6th grade buddies, we did a science experiment. We each got a cup of water and a gingerbread cookie. First, we recorded what our gingerbread man looked like when he was not wet. Then, we wrote and drew our predictions about what might happen. Finally, we dropped in the cookie and waited a few minutes to find out. We quickly discovered why the river was scarier than the fox! The gingerbread cookie was breaking apart and dissolving fast. We now have a much better understanding of why the Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl did not want to go in the river. We are looking forward to many more gingerbread books to come this week!
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