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 4 1-2 LISTEN AND COLOUR 5 3 COLOUR THE CHARACTERS COLOUR AND GUESS. 6 4 WHO STOLE THE COOKIE FROM THE COOKIE JAR? 7 5 CUT, BUILD AND HAVE FUN! RUN, RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. YOU CAN’T CATCH ME, I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN. 8 7 COOKIE HUNTING WHERE ARE THE COOKIES? 9 8 LET’S MAKE A GINGERBREAD BOY AND GIRL. 10 9 ODD ONE OUT 11 10 WHERE ARE THEY? 12 11 DO YOU WANT…? VANILLA CAKE LEMON PIE APPLE PIE ORANGE PIE CHOCOLATE CAKE GINGERBREAD COOKIE STRAWBERRY CAKE CHOCOLATE COOKIE 13 12 BINGO TIME! 14 13 WHERE DOES GEORGIE GO? 15 14 ROLL A GINGERBREAD BOY! TAKE TURNS ROLLING A DIE. THE FIRST ONE TO FINISH DRAWING A GINGERBREAD BOY IS THE WINNER. 16 15 HOW MANY GEORGIES ARE THERE? 1 2 3 4 5 6 17 16 WHO IS GEORGIE’S NEW FRIEND? 1: GREEN 2: PINK 3: ORANGE 4: YELLOW 5: BLACK 6: BLUE 7: BROWN 6 6 6 6 2 2 6 6 2 2 6 3 3 6 6 5 5 6 3 6 3 6 6 6 2 6 6 6 3 3 3 3 1 1 3 3 3 6 3 2 1 1 6 3 3 6 6 6 2 6 1 1 6 4 6 7 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 7 7 4 4 1 1 4 7 4 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 7 4 1 7 7 1 1 1 7 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 7 7 3 3 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 18 17 THE STORY 19 18 WHAT DO THEY SAY? 20 19 STORY SEQUENCE 21 20 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. 23 ACTIVITY NAME/TYPE / TEACHER’S CORNER PAGE 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.