Merry Christmas!

Making Gingerbread Men?

Every year I have parents, former students and colleagues asking me for this recipe and I always have to search to find it. It only took me ten years of teaching, but I am finally posting it online so I won't have to search anymore!

Mrs. Baker’s Famous
Child Friendly Gingerbread Men

Children like this recipe because the gingerbread is sweeter and chewier than traditional molasses cookies.

• ½ cup softened butter (Earth Balance works best if dairy-free is needed)
• 1 egg
• ½ cup natural cane sugar
• 1 ½ cup flour (all-purpose, all-purpose gluten free + 1 ½ tsp. Xanthan gum  or finely ground whole grain all work fine)
• 1 package instant butterscotch pudding mix
• 1 tsp. ground ginger
• ½ tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp baking soda

v  favourite frosting
v  candies, sprinkles etc.
v  cookie cutter

Mix together butter, egg and sugar.  Add remaining ingredients.  Dough may be quite crumbly; continue to work the dough until you can roll it out.  (Don’t worry – it still bakes nicely!) 

Roll out dough and cut into gingerbread men with cookie cutter. 

Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees. 

Cool. 

Decorate using a favourite tasty frosting and candies.

Math Links

I found a couple of evenings (miracle of miracles!) to work on math links, so while they are certainly not complete there is now something there for you as a resource!

Click to visit my MATH PAGE, and enjoy!

Literacy & Language Links are Ready!

Good day!

I have made some decent progress with organizing the language links from my old sites.  Sheesh, there was a lot of dead stuff in there!

Check it out here or click on the individual pages at the top of this site any time.
 

Under Construction!

Welcome to my new blog!  

I`m going to try to find time to convert all of the great links from both of my other websites over to here for everyone to access.  Check out the pages as they are updated to find LOTS of great web 2.0 resources for you and your students, school families and your children!