Gingerbread Man-Context Clues Activity

It's almost December!  This week will be doing some testing to help with our progress monitoring.  I was trying to think of an activity to do with my kids after testing that will keep their interest and also help improve their context clues skills.

In the past, I've done a Gingerbread Man activity with my students where I hide a paper gingerbread man with a secret message (that we are going to decorate gingerbread men cookies) somewhere in the school and they go from place to place finding clues that will eventually lead them to their prize.

This year I've decided to change things up a bit because my kids learn best by doing.  This week we will be using our context clues skills to write clues that detail where the gingerbread men are hidden.  Then we will visit a first grade classroom, read the Gingerbread Man book with them and then go on a school-wide hunt looking for the special gingerbread man.  We will start in their classroom with the first clue.  Then, we will work together to use our context clues skills to move from clue to clue until FINALLY WE FIND THE SPECIAL GINGERBREAD MAN.  This guy will let our friends know the next activity....decorating gingerbread men cookies by following directions (if you're a girl use red gum drops for eyes/boys use green, if your first name starts with a letter A-L use 6 chocolate chips for the mouth, if you are big brother or sister use 4 skittles for buttons, etc).

Hopefully this will be a fun activity!!