Gingerbread Man Craft and Book Companion PreK K 1st 2nd Grade Special Ed

About this resource

One theme, one week. Read the same read-aloud every day at circle time, and pull one simple

activity after it each day -- sort, count, find the letter, a life skill, then a craft. Every student

page has one short instruction with a picture, so a paraprofessional can run the room from it too.

This week pairs with The Gingerbread Man by a traditional folktale; use any version (or any similar read-aloud you already have). Not affiliated with the

authors or publisher. You need your own copy of the book; nothing from it is reproduced here.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (58 pages)

• 1 Start Here week plan: what to do after the read-aloud each day across 5 days
• 1 book-and-words page naming the read-aloud and the 9 circle-time vocabulary words
• 9 smartboard slides for whole-group circle time
• 9 circle-time vocabulary cards to cut out and use at the carpet
• Day 1, Sort, at 3 levels (10 cut-and-glue pieces on Levels 1-2, 10 on Level 3)
• Day 2, Count, at 3 levels (5 rows)
• Day 3, Letter hunt, at 3 levels (10 beginning-sound pictures on Level 3)
• Writing, at 3 levels
• Day 4, a life-skill sequencing page
• Day 5, a book craft
• 2 fine motor pages (tracing paths, cutting practice)
• 4 core-word pages for the word of the week
• 1 "Who Did What This Week" data page
• 1 family letter to send home on Day 1
• 1 "What's Next" page pointing to 4 live theme weeks (The Little Red Hen, Turkey Disguise, Turkey Countdown, Catch That Turkey!)
• 1 credits page (art and font licenses)
• Ink-saver twins of 19 picture-based student pages in outline art for a photocopier

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of a

number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's.

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight line.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier.

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom who

wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit. It is not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress, and

it does not reproduce any book, its text, or its artwork.