This is a Gingerbread Christmas/Holiday Themed Math and Literacy BUNDLE. In this Bundle you will find a Math Perimeter,Area and Money project and Persuasive Writing activities.

This is a NO PREP holiday/Christmas themed math unit project for students that touches on Area, Perimeter and Money. Students will build a gingerbread house with different features and amenities. Students will measure the perimeter and area of their house. Students also have to keep in mind the costs for each room in their house, including the costs of amenities, furniture, fences and their yard areas. This project is great for solidifying and finalizing the skills they have learned.

Perimeter and Area Christmas Math Project

This Unit Project includes:

- Adding Costs for furniture, amenities, rooms and yards.

- Creating and finding the area and perimeter of their house and rooms.

- Calculating the final costs of their entire house

- A final checklist for students to make sure they have completed their project and shown their work.

- An easy to use teacher scoring system out of 30 points

As a teacher you also have the power to make the assessment as simple or complex as you choose! You can create a budget that students have to follow. You can create a limit or minimum amount of rooms they need to have for the house. You could even have students make 3D models of their home! Whatever works best for your students!

* Please Note: This project uses the metric system to calculate area and perimeter (meters)

Gingerbread Persuasive Writing & Media Literacy

This is an engaging persuasive writing brochure for Christmas tied to the Ontario Media Literacy Curriculum!

Students must try and sell their amazing gingerbread house - all while keeping in mind their audience and buyers. They are encouraged to use persuasive language and imagery when writing about their gingerbread house in their brochures. Students are given blank templates of the house, both inside and outside, and they can decorate as they see fit for their audience. You as the teacher can even take it one step further and have them construct their own 3D gingerbread house! This project is great for tying into Media Literacy curriculum and allows for flexibility depending on your classroom.

I hope you love this writing activity as much as my students do!

What's Included:

• Instruction Page for students
• Persuasive Sentence Starters/Adjectives and identifying buyers
• Brochure template (double sided)
• Gingerbread House Black and White
• Gingerbread House Elements Black and White
• Plain House Exterior Black and White
• Paragraph Pages Template (as extension task to their brochure and to write persuasive paragraphs)
• Reflection pages (2)
• Bulletin Border Banner and For Sale Sign (Colour and Black & White)
• Teacher scoring sheet out of 20

Please see the preview for a complete look at what you will find!

This project is linked to the following curriculum links in the Ontario Media Literacy Curriculum*.

Purpose and Audience

3.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create.

Form

3.2 identify an appropriate form to suit the specific purpose and audience for a media text they plan to create.

Conventions and Techniques

3.3 identify conventions and techniques appropriate to the form chosen for a media text they plan to create

Producing Media Texts

3.4 produce media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques

*Please note that these are taken from the Grade 3 Ontario Media Literacy Curriculum, however, some are similar or even identical to the following Grades and could be used in conjunction with some teacher supplementation : 1, 2, 4, & 5