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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A C.H. Campbell Elementary School second-grade student concentrated on constructing her mini wooden gingerbread house ornament.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A C.H. Campbell Elementary School second-grade student made sure the roof of his wooden gingerbread house ornament was on straight.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Former Canfield School Board member Barry Tancer instructed C.H. Campbell Elementary School second-grade students in Stephanie Maurer’s class on how to build mini wooden gingerbread house ornaments using math skills on Dec. 13.
By ABBY SLANKER
Second-grade students at C.H. Campbell Elementary School received a special holiday visit from former Canfield School Board member Barry Tancer on Dec. 13.
Tancer instructed the children in each class in how to build mini wooden gingerbread house ornaments, giving them step-by-step instructions.
“We are learning about holidays around the world and traditions in other countries, so the gingerbread houses of Germany are a perfect fit,” said second-grade teacher Stephanie Maurer.
Maurer also said they are incorporating other aspects of the curriculum into the gingerbread house project.
“I love this project because it uses both social studies and math. We are also incorporating Bridges math into the project, figuring out how many pieces of wood each class would need to build the gingerbread houses. Also, part of our curriculum we are including is expository writing, or descriptive writing. The students will write about the steps they took to build the gingerbread houses using sequence words, describing how they made the houses,” Maurer said.
Volunteer parents also helped as the children built, painted and decorated their houses, which they took home as a holiday gift for their families.
As a special treat, Tancer passed out candy canes to the students after they had built their gingerbread houses.