Three Lincoln School kindergarten classes and some multi-age classroom students have been receiving postcards literally from all other world from senders reporting the whereabouts of Gingerbread men and women who escaped through windows at Lincoln School after they magically came to life the evening of November 20th.
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Kindergarten teacher Jasmine Bueso explained that after Buddy the Elf from her classroom brought all the popular holiday confectionary characters to life, they were overcome with wanderlust, not wanting to stay in school, but travel to destinations near and far.
Bueso then appealed on social media to anyone across the globe who spotted one of the Gingerbread people to send a postcard and let the LS children know where the characters they created ended up and what they are doing in those locations.
Like Ashley from Morocco who said she saw one of the Gingerbread men having fun riding a camel.
Bueso said the kindergarten pupils in her class, Amanda Richwalder and Melissa Allison’s classes along with pupils in Rebecca Herko’s multi-age classroom so far had received over 100 postcards that are posted on a map of the world in the Kindergarten Hallway.
“We then set up a map to document their travels,” Bueso explained. “This helps us teach the students about places all over the world.”
After learning about a similar project on Facebook three years ago Bueso shared the idea with the other teachers and the holiday travels of the Gingerbread people project at LS was born.
“Every year after that it has grown bigger and bigger,” Bueso said, noting a life-sized Gingerbread man occasionally runs unannounced outside windows of participating classrooms in
November and December to keep students’ excitement in the project high.
Also this year, some of the Gingerbread characters stayed closer to their Newark birthplace and can be seen at Joey’s Northside Grocery, Canal View Family Restaurant, the Alex Eligh Community Center, Doug Kent’s Rose Bowl Lanes and Newark Pediatrics.
“Each year the kids get excited about the process” Bueso said. “We love seeing how much the project has grown and brings a little magic to Lincoln School. We are so grateful to everyone who has helped by sending us postcards and sharing the story.”