The Common Core and Gingerbread Curriculum
I like gingerbread. I think it is delicious. So this post is by no means to be critical of gingerbread lovers. This is a gingerbread friendly zone. I just learned that their is a Common Core gingerbread curriculum.I had a friend email me this story from the DeerPark-North Babylon Patchabout a second grade class at William E. DeLuca Elementary School in North Babylon, NY partaking of these lessons.
Working in small groups, the students rotated through the classrooms in the second-grade wing to work at the various stations. Using edible gingerbread men, the second-graders utilized their math skills by tasting the cookies and graphing which portions of the cookies that they took their first bites of. The students then honed their English language skills by writing essays using their five senses to describe the gingerbread men. They also put their artistic talents to good use by decorating an edible gingerbread cookie,