Where, oh where, is the Gingerbread Man?

 This is an absolute fantastic activity that we did this year with the help of Ms. Doennig's class.  Our class had a giant gingerbread man that came to visit us in the morning with the promise of a tasty treat right after lunch, but when we returned to class he had disappeared!!  We were quite excited!  Several of the kids thought he had left a trail, just like the  book "Hansel and Gretel" we had read, not realizing that the raisins we found on the ground were there own from snack earlier in the day.

We made LOST posters and hung them in the hallways just in case someone were to find our gingerbread man and would want to return it.

Come to find out, the gingerbread man was up to his old tricks and had ran away.  He left us clues in the hall for us to follow him.  We decided that we would each make a map of the school to help us navigate the clues.  Tyler from our class was in charge of reading the  clues to us.

We navigated the halls following the clues.  We finally "caught" the sneaky gingerbread man in the office hiding under the tree.  Ethan did a good job sneaking around and giving the signal that he had found him!

I held tightly on to the gingerbread man and took him back to Ms. Doennig's room so that we could enjoy him.  We decided that Tyler deserved to eat the mouth because he was our flawless reader!