Gingerbread Cookie Caper



Olivia has the best Kindergarten teacher ever. Evidence #1, read this post from her blog:

 

We have been reading many different versions of the gingerbread cookie story and we noticed that all of the stories have certain things in common. The cookies are “sassy” and they all escaped or run away. Well, all those stories made us hungry for gingerbread cookies so we asked our school cook if we could use his ovens to bake some cookies of our own. Today was the day. We rolled out the dough (this was harder than you’d think and took muscles!) then we cut out gingerbread cookie shapes and placed them on a big pan. We took the pan down to the kitchen and gave specific directions: 1.Don’t cook them too long or too short a time. 2. Don’t let them run away. 3. Whatever you do don’t open the oven to peek because they might escape. Then we went to Phy. Ed. During our Phy. Ed. class our cook came running in to say he got a text that said the cookies were going to the North Pole and when he checked the oven they were gone! Mrs. Smith was pretty surprised when she came to get us and heard the news. She didn’t believe us so we went into the kitchen and looked again. There was flour on the oven door and the floor leading out into the hall. The pan was in the oven but there wasn’t even one cookie left on it. We sadly went up to our classroom to talk about what we could do to catch and eat those cookies. We decided to make signs and put them up around the school. The more people looking the greater the chance that we will find those cookies. Then we decided to make traps. We are going to do that tonight. Mrs. Smith said we could put our traps all over the school. Keep your fingers crossed because we really want to eat those cookies! We’ll let you know if there are any developments in the Gingerbread Cookie Caper. If you live between here and the North Pole will you please keep an eye out for our cookies? The text we received said they were headed your way.

 

See, best teacher ever, right?! Well Olivia made her trap that night (all by herself). Her initial method was to lure the gingerbread cookie to her trap by its beauty. The cookie would see her pretty picture, go up to the box, look in a the glittery inside, and say "Oh, it's so pretty in here!" The second part of the plan was that the cookie would fall into the box, and trip on the ribbon. She explained how the trap works to her class and set it up in my classroom.

 

Her sign has a gingerbread girl tip-toeing and whispering "Shhh"...

 

You could imagine her delight when we came to school the next morning and the trap worked! She was so excited as we walked to her room. We walked by the kitchen to show the cook, Mr. Chin. He was so happy she caught one! The kinders waited a few days till all of the cookies were caught. Then they decorated them (different ones of course), and ate them up!

 

I adore how the entire school gets into this. The big kids and staff all play along with the story so well. It's special moments like this that will make long lasting memories for these little ones, and their parents. :)