Key Takeaways
- Kids learn about different jobs in a bakery, plus the concepts of goods and services.
- They get a fun break with a Gingerbread Dance Party.
- Kids practice using descriptive words to track down a missing gingerbread person!
What is it about gingerbread that gets us in the mood for the holidays? The cute little shape? The smell? The fun of decorating? For me...all of it! I am SO excited that Scholastic News for grade 1 included Gingerbread Jobs for December! There is so much great content in this issue, and it’s perfectly timed for December!
We started our lesson by watching the video “That's My Job!” In a kid-friendly way, the video explained that jobs are everywhere around us—from police officers to ice-cream tasters. It goes on to explain why it's necessary for people to have jobs and the difference between goods and services. Of course, my students had to share what they want to be when they grow up—from a soccer player to a mom to a teacher!
Next, we read Scholastic News online together on our interactive whiteboard. Students loved volunteering to read “a colored box” (as we call them!).
Another bonus of using the online digital issue is that the important bolded vocabulary words in the student issue are highlighted on the digital version. I can just tap on the word and the definition pops up.
After reading through the jobs in the bakery, we took a quick Dance Break. The kids could not get enough of the Gingerbread Dance Party video and begged me to play it a second time!
We finished up our issue by completing the riddles on the back of the magazine and doing another Gingerbread Dance Party!