Directed by Luciana Dorfman

Music BY Marcelo Andino

WORKPACK Eugenia Dell’Osa Silvia Montimurro Ana Laura Zanfranceschi

OBRA REGISTRADA

Note to teachers Our dear fellow teacher,

and after watching the BAP play of your choice.

suggested procedures, answer keys where appropriate and follow-ups. Have a magical BAP experience, and do let us know what worked best for you and your students!

All our love, The Teachers Team

2 Characters

dolly peter pouch the cook the pig Peter’s brother

georgie jenny the gingerbread boy the gingerbread girl

helen dixie & trixie walter the hen Helen’s chicks the wolf

3 Synopsis The Gingerbread Boy is a yummy cookie that comes to life after Dolly, the cook, takes him out of the oven. He looks so delicious that everybody on the farm wants to eat him up: Peter, the pig, and his brother Pouch, Helen, the hen, and her chicks, Trixie and Dixie. “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”, Georgie, the Gingerbread Boy, chants every time he runs away. Little by little, the animals understand that he can be a friend. However, George is so afraid, he runs away towards the forest, where Walter, the wolf, lives. Will Walter find him delicious as well? Will the wolf think they can be friends? Soon, Dolly, will bake another cookie. Do you want to meet Jenny, the Gingerbread Girl? Can you hear her say: “Run, run all around the world! You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread girl”? VOCABULARY The list of vocabulary items will help you and your students understand and enjoy the play more fully. NOUNS cook • pig • brother • hen • hen house • chick • boy • wolf • girl • gingerbread • farm • house • kitchen • cake • vanilla cake • strawberry cake • chocolate cake • pie • lemon pie • orange pie • cookie • dough • mother • friend • animal • family • cat • mouse • dog • guard • yoga • arm • eggs • joke • lady • forest • breakfast • surprise • adventure • pigpen • eyes • buttons ADJECTIVES beautiful • delicious • yucky • little • yellow • brown • fast • smart • hungry • silly • allergic • dangerous • sneaky VERBS bake • cook • love • hear • hate • share • hunt • stop • need • make • protect • lie(r) • hide • escape • explain • scream • rescue • regret • mess EXPRESSIONS to be sorry • to be hungry • to feel lonely • to be afraid • good idea! • to tell the truth • to take care • to be scared • to be alive • to come back • to get burnt • to show up • to lay eggs • good luck

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LISTEN AND COLOUR

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COLOUR THE CHARACTERS COLOUR AND GUESS.

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WHO STOLE THE COOKIE FROM THE COOKIE JAR?

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CUT, BUILD AND HAVE FUN! RUN, RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. YOU CAN’T CATCH ME, I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN.

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COOKIE HUNTING WHERE ARE THE COOKIES?

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LET’S MAKE A GINGERBREAD BOY AND GIRL.

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ODD ONE OUT

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WHERE ARE THEY?

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DO YOU WANT…?

VANILLA CAKE LEMON PIE

APPLE PIE

ORANGE PIE

CHOCOLATE CAKE GINGERBREAD COOKIE

STRAWBERRY CAKE CHOCOLATE COOKIE

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BINGO TIME!

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WHERE DOES GEORGIE GO?

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ROLL A GINGERBREAD BOY! TAKE TURNS ROLLING A DIE. THE FIRST ONE TO FINISH DRAWING A GINGERBREAD BOY IS THE WINNER.

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HOW MANY GEORGIES ARE THERE?

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WHO IS GEORGIE’S NEW FRIEND? 1: GREEN 2: PINK 3: ORANGE 4: YELLOW 5: BLACK 6: BLUE 7: BROWN

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THE STORY

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WHAT DO THEY SAY?

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STORY SEQUENCE

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GOODBYE!

22 Below you will find a list of activities for The Gingerbread Boy with the corresponding Teacher’s Corner to each exercise where needed.

ACTIVITY NAME/TYPE / TEACHER’S CORNER PAGE

LISTEN AND COLOUR Choose a colour for the picture frame and give students clues to guess the characters, e.g.: Take a green pencil. They are small. They are chickens. (Dixie and Trixie). Students use the green pencil to colour the frame of the picture where they see Dixie and Trixie. Suggestions: 5 1. Take a green pencil. They are small. They are chickens. 2. Take a red pencil. She’s a cook. She is a woman. (Dolly) 1 3. Take a purple pencil. He’s a boy. He’s a cookie. 4. Take a blue pencil. It’s an animal. It’s got 2 legs. 5. Take an orange pencil. She’s a girl. She’s a cookie. 6. Take a yellow pencil. They’re animals. They are brothers. 7. Take a pink pencil. It’s an animal. It’s got four legs and a tail. It’s dangerous. It’s the wolf.

FIND THE CHARACTER 2 Variation on activity 1. You may cut out the character pictures in activity 1 and stick them on the 5

COLOUR THE CHARACTERS 3 green. Dixie and Trixie are yellow. Walter is brown. Georgie is red. Jenny is purple. 6 Then teacher will ask: Who is (painted in) blue?, Who is (painted in) purple?, etc

WHO STOLE THE COOKIES FROM THE COOKIE JAR? Have the children sit in a circle. Show them a cookie jar (or the picture in the worksheet for this activity) and say, “Yummy…cookies! I’m going to have a cookie!” Look inside the cookie jar and then say, “Oh no! Who took a cookie from the cookie jar? Pedro? Did you take the cookie? Juana? Did you take the cookie? Who took the cookie?” Next, have everyone make a beat by patting their laps then clapping their hands (pat, clap, pat, 7 4 All: Who took the cookie from the cookie jar? Leader: Pedro (student’s name) took the cookie from the cookie jar! Pedro: Who, me? All: Yes, you! Pedro: Not me! All: Then who? Pedro: Juana! Then the teacher will have students repeat the cycle until the Laugh. Give cookies to all the students. Teach the simple and delightful pleasure of eating/making cookies.

CUT, BUILD AND HAVE FUN! Teacher and students will play Tag Game. Teacher will assign kids the name of the different characters of the story( Dolly, Peter, Pouch, Helen, Dixie, Trixie, Walter) One, or the number of students teacher decides, will hold the puppet of Georgie. Kids will have to try to catch Georgie. Georgie may go to a safe place, “home” and say: Run, run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread boy. Or as “Georgie” is tagged he can say: Run, run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I m the gingerbread boy. Then, he is safe. Variation of the game: Teacher will ask students to cut out Georgie and stick a lolly stick so as to 5 have Georgie puppet. Teacher can decide to play in the classroom or out in the playground. 8 Teacher will say as if in the role of Dolly, the cook: “I will prepare something really special today! I will bake ….a cake! No, a vanilla cake! No, no! A strawberry cake! No, no, no! A chocolate cake! Oh! No! A pie! No, no! A lemon pie! Oh! A cake or a pie? (teacher may play by repeating many times: a cake or a pie?) Oh, No, no, no! No cake, no pie! Ah! Yes! I will bake a cookie! I will bake a gingerbread cookie! Watch out kids! “ Teacher in role can pretend to catch the Georgies who will run to keep safe at the time they chant: “RUN, RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. YOU CAN’T CATCH ME, I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN. Students run around the classroom or the yard holding up Georgie, having fun. Teacher may play this game as many times as he/she wants.

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STEM ACTIVITY The idea of this activity is to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Georgie and Jenny want to go on a trip around the farm. Engage your students in a discussion about how they could travel together and the places they could visit around the farm (i.e: forest, 6 river, road, city, etc.) You can break the students into small groups. Provide them with the cut- outs of Georgie and Jenny and materials to design and engineer their plan with. They can use blocks, blue paper to represent the river, any toys they have. They can also use the objects mentioned above, the images provided in this workpack and any other you think suitable to recreate the whole story.

COOKIE HUNTING. WHERE ARE THE COOKIES? Teacher will ask students to identify where Georgie and Jenny are hidden by asking: where is 7 Georgie? Where is Jenny? 9 Follow up: teacher will ask students to cut and paste where Georgie and Jenny are.

LET’S MAKE A GINGERBREAD BOY AND GIRL Teacher will have ready plasticine (or the material she/he considers best to work with) and, with the help of the shapes students have on the worksheet, they’ll model both Georgie and Jenny. Extra Activity: you can use a real recipe for Gingerbread cookies and make them with your students. You don’t even have to turn the oven on to enjoy these delicious (and nutritious) no- bake gingerbread cookies Ingredients 8 seedless dates (approximately 1 cup) 1 cup of cashews 1/3 cup of pecans 1 tsp of molasses 1/2 tsp powdered ginger 8 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 tsp of cinnamon 10 Instructions Place all ingredients into food processor and blend until dough forms (approximately 3 minutes) Chill dough for 2 hours (or overnight) Roll dough out into a flat sheet Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut out cookies Roll leftover dough and repeat step 3&4 until all the dough is gone. You might have to eat some of the left overs Store in fridge – place parchment paper if stacking for storage Decorate with chocolate chips. If you have access to an oven you can choose any traditional gingerbread man cookie recipe. They may decorate their cookie and take it home as a gift for parents or family.

ODD ONE OUT Encourage students to look at the sets of pictures and decide which one is different. You may 9 encourage them to name the pictures first. Perhaps you’ll need to ask questions to guide them, 11 e.g.: Which is different? Is the cake food? Can you eat a pencil? Is the pencil food?

WHERE ARE THEY? You may need to teach/elicit from students the names of the places: pigpen, kitchen, forest, hen house, before you can do the activity. Then ask them to draw a line to connect each character with the place where they can find them. Help/encourage them to confirm their answers orally. Answers Dolly is in the kitchen. 10 The hen is in the henhouse. 12 The pig is in the pigpen. The wolf is in the forest.

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DO YOU WANT…? Make 3 sets of pictures and cut them out. Stick one of the sets on the board or wall, the other 2 sets should be on the floor at the back of your classroom. If you do not have space, you may want to do it in a yard. Invite one student to sit on a chair as if he/she was in a tea house. Pick 11 2 other students to offer. Do you want strawberry cake? Model answers: Yes, I do. No, I don’t. 13 When the “customer” says yes, the other two have to run to get the right picture from the back of the room. The first one to get it scores a point, or becomes the customer.

BINGO TIME You will need as many BINGO cards as students there are in your class. As you distribute the cards, you need to ask your students to choose one of the characters and draw a heart around to “save” it. As they do this, all the cards will be different. 12 Now, play bingo with the characters of the play. Remember students can either always use the 14 same card or exchange them with partners. Answer: KITCHEN - PIGPEN - HEN HOUSE - FOREST - KITCHEN

WHERE DOES GEORGIE GO? Encourage students to recall the story and ask: Where is Georgie at the beginning? Where does 13 he go next? Does he go to the forest or to the pigpen? Tell students to draw a line on the map, 15 showing the path.

ROLL A GINGERBREAD BOY The aim of this activity is to draw a Gingerbread Boy by following the instructions on each side of the die. 14 Students roll the die, teacher or partner asks “What is it?” “It’s an eye”. So, they draw an eye. 16 It would be great to make a demonstration for the whole group first. Bare in mind that they need to roll the die twice for eyes, arms and legs.

HOW MANY GEORGIES ARE THERE? Encourage your students to count the number of Georgies in each line. Then, they will cut out 17 15 the numbers and paste them in the space provided.

GEORGIE’S NEW FRIEND 16 Encourage your students to associate the numbers and colours and then, they will colour the 18 pictures according to the numbers to discover the hidden character.

STORY POSTER Group activity. As a pre watching activity, use the synopsis and the pictures on the worksheet to tell the story. Make a poster for your classroom with your students’ help. 17 Answer key: Dolly bakes Georgie. Georgie runs away. Georgie goes to the pigpen and to the 19 hen house. After that, he goes to the forest and meets the wolf. Then he comes back to the house.

DICE WITH CHARACTERS AND PHRASES TO REPEAT Build the dice with your students and help them identify who said these phrases… Georgie: Run, run, as fast as you can… you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man. Jenny: Run, run, all around the world… you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Girl. Dolly: I’m going to bake something delicious! 20 18 Chicks: We can be friends. Pigs: We can be friends. Walter: I am the wolf. I don’t want to catch you. You can also use the pictures on the worksheets to play mini roleplays.

SEQUENCE THE STORY 19 Work on the different scenes of the play and encourage your students to put the pictures in 21 order. Remember you have the synopsis to help you.

GOODBYE 20 Colour the picture of the characters as a farewell activity. 22

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