Question: What do gingerbread, milk cartons, a few thousand pieces of candy and 200 third-graders equal to? Answer: Gingerbread houses.
Following a more than five-year tradition at Manning Primary School, third-graders took up the school’s cafeteria for two hours on Thursday, Dec. 15, for some messy, edible fun. Former MPS teachers Kay Prothro and Peggy Lester started the tradition to give children the learning experience of building something while having a good time.
And even with all of the fun stuff, the students still received a lesson out of it. After making their gingerbread houses, they would go back to their classrooms to write about their experience.
Nancy Moore, math coach at MPS who organized this year’s event, said that the students also get a math lesson out of the experience, learning about different patterns, shapes, sizes, etc.
MPS would like to thank the stores that donated supplies and candy needed to make the gingerbread houses, as well as all of the volunteers who made the event a success.
“We can’t do it by ourselves, and we’re very grateful for all of the community support,” Prothro said.
