Gingerbread Yorktown
Third Graders Win Contest | Posted January 12, 2010
Grymes Memorial School students in Mrs. Estes’s third grade classroom have a yearlong colonial theme to coincide with their study of Virginia History. To enrich this study the class took a trip to Yorktown earlier in the fall. To further enhance the study, they constructed an edible Yorktown out of gingerbread and candy trimmings on Monday, November 23, 2009. This class project was inspired by the 23rd Annual Gingerbread House Contest and Exhibit at George Washington's Ferry Farm which Mrs. Estes’s last year’s class entered and won. This year the theme of the contest was "George Washington Slept Here," so any building he is known to have slept in was fair game for re-creation. The Gingerbread Yorktown construction won first place as well as Best in Show. Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home, is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The contest was open to all ages and the Exhibit is open to the public December 1-30.
Article and Photo by Lee Berry
