Each year my students design, bake, assemble, and decorate their very own gingerbread house. They first build their own house from cardboard to become familiar with the components of a simple house (two ends, two sides, and two roof pieces), and how measurements on one affect or mate with adjacent pieces. From there they design, on grid paper, their own house dimensions (length, width, and height) within a given range (in our case the maximum was 18 cm high, 20 cm long, and 15 cm wide). 
I prepared the dough in advance (see photo) for 
consistency. On Monday, with the help of many parent volunteers, the students rolled out their dough, transferred their pattern pieces, and had them baked. Assembly and decorating were done on Wednesday of the week. As you can see, smiles were the order of the day.
Great job 4A!
2 comments:
Yaayyyy for Gingerbread houses!
John, I don't know at all, you may be the toughest, most demanding teacher, loading your kids up on homework, and expecting the earth of them (I mean I don't really think that, just saying it for effect), but this is proof positive that at least one day a year, you are the coolest, neatest, most fantastic teacher on the planet! What absolute fun - learning engineering and design, planning, and culinary arts, and then being able to eat the result - Delicious!
I have never seen Meg so eager to get to school as she was last Wednesday. It was a fantastic way to end the school year.
To get that many kids to produce a gingerbread house must have taken patience beyond normal measures.
Great job John.
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