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Elementary School
December 22
2009
Keane
Students Bring Book to Life
The Gingerbread Baby has a home for the holidays
Students in
various grades at William C. Keane Elementary School have been
very busy this holiday season bringing author Jan Brett's books
to life in their classrooms.
 In
addition to studying this very animated author and reading
The Gingerbread Baby, the students in Abigail
Accetta's kindergarten class took it a step further. They
made gingerbread houses so the gingerbread baby would have a
home for the holidays.
About the book:
That sassy cookie! When Matti opens the oven door
just a little too soon, out pops a gingerbread baby
instead of the gingerbread boy he was expecting.
Eluding all efforts to catch him, the flat,
becandied baby is chased around the village and into
the countryside. He mercilessly taunts Matti's
parents, a cat, the milk and cheese man, goats,
villagers, a fox, and more. In a less traumatic
twist on the classic Gingerbread Boy story, this
Gingerbread Baby even outfoxes the fox. Sure he's
bratty, but he doesn't deserve the gruesome end the
Gingerbread Boy usually comes to. Matti makes sure
this naughty but appealing little one ends up right
where he belongs. |
See the
students in action:
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thumbnail below to view larger photo
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