While there, students mailed their individually colored gingerbread men to begin their journeys across the state of Kansas. Each year during December, first grade classrooms participate in a gingerbread man study. They read many versions of the gingerbread man.
Mrs. Carpenter, Marshall Elementary Librarian finds volunteers from Kansas school and public libraries that are willing to host the first graders' gingerbread men. The gingerbread men are mailed to these host libraries and then they journal the gingerbread men's escapades and return them to Marshall first graders before Christmas break. As the gingerbread men return to Eureka their host cities are tagged on the Kansas map in the library.
