After searching and searching, we could not
find our Gingerbread Man. We looked everywhere, asked everyone and
tried to use all the clues to help us find him. Here were some of the
children's suggestions throughout the week:
"to catch him with a net"
"we should hide"
"We should run and look for him"
"Look for him with a bucket"
"Sneak on our tiptoes"
"Use a blanket"
"Use a crane to catch him and pick him up with a hook"
"we can scare him....but he may runaway again"
At the end of the day on Thursday, we decided to have one more look on the 3rd floor and ask around. We came back to our classroom without any answers. As we were going to get ready to go home, we thought we should water our plants before the long weekend. And that was when we saw what had happened......... The Gingerbread Man was eaten (there were still some crumbs), by, we think, a bird (there were some more white feathers by the crumbs).....we had learned that Ms. Spain had left the window open the night before (oops!). Ash class was a little sad, but then one of the children piped up and said, "That's ok, we can bake some more!" (Believe it or not, this also led to some interesting discussions about what animals eat and our food chain!) Alas, this is the end to our story, and please remember, that it is not much different than the original story, when the Gingerbread Man got eaten by a fox :0)
