Normally, we make gingerbread men to celebrate the first "real" snow of the season. We gave up this year before Christmas, and made them with only a skiff of snow of on ground. Even so, with the children out playing, and the snowflakes falling, I couldn't resist rolling out one more small batch of gingerbread.
Since I hated to lose the entire school day to a February snow, and since we (or at least I) have been in a mathy mood this month, I cut out 2''x2'' squares instead of men...
...scoring them into quarter inch squares (more or less) before baking...
...for a frosting covered, gingerbread geometry lesson to go along with the obligatory mugs of hot chocolate, when the children finally came shivering back inside.
I gave them each a baggie of frosting, and let them pipe along the scored lines while we talked about perimeter and area of the squares.
We frosted a few of the extra squares together to investigate the surface area of a six sided cube...
...and piled up a batch of Pfeffernüssen-ish gingerbread cubes (made with the left-over dough)...
7 comments:
You have GOT to come out with a homeschooling with cookies book.
Pfeffernüssen-ish gingerbread cubes:
A phrase I NEVER thought I would hear associated with cookies! ;0)
I'm trying to think how you even say the word Pfeffernunssen.
I agree, you need to write a homeschooling with cookies.
I agree...homeschooling with cookies! You've got enough content on the blog...just grab it and GO (cook & teach!) :)
Call your book "Sweet Math" - you certainly have plenty of content for it :) Great lesson, by the way. My husband and I enjoy pfeffernusse taste, but not our little Ms Picky.
Oh how I would have enjoyed math if you were my teacher!
I totally agree that you need a publisher!
This is terrific!
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