April 2016

So much has happened since my last blog. I changed schools. Twice. My oldest graduated from high school. My second child started driving. My third is old enough to drive. And I had a baby😳!
I'm hoping to revive my blog for my new teaching gig; preschool teacher at 3C's Nursery School and Kindergarten: www.3Cnurseryschool.com
I started teaching at 3C's in 2015 & will be teaching there again next year. I teach the young 3 year olds, and boy is it entertaining! Stay tuned for more posts about my preschool class😊

More Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Fables

Fairy Tale Bulletin Board

Take Home Mini Books

 Partner Reading

 "Buttering-Up" Popcorn Words

 Reading To Self

Little Red Riding Hood

• Map a map to grandma’s house and write directions
• Teach the difference between fruits and vegetables (that she carries in her basket), make a list of fruits and a list of vegetables
• Create a list of singular fruits/vegetables, then make plural

Cinderella 

The Princess and the Pea

• Practice addition: Prince/Princess ______ had _____ peas under his/her mattress. The Queen put ____ more peas under his/her mattress. How many peas were there in all?  _____ + _____ = ______
• Have students illustrate by using brown construction paper strips for the bed frame, round green paper for the peas, and colored paper strips for mattresses

 Rumpelstilskin

• Have students count letters in their name, graph letters in name
• Practice addition: (Mrs. McClure) spun ________ pieces of straw into gold. Then she spun ______ more. How many pieces of gold were there in all?        _______ + _______ = ________
• Have students illustrate by gluing brown construction paper for straw and yellow circled construction paper for gold. 

Jack and The Bean Stock

• Write our own version – what would our magic beans grow into?
• Measure selves using beans: ___________ is _________ beans tall.
• Plant our own seeds, measure their growth
• Keep a Growing Journal to document the growth of our plants

Henny Penny

• Retell story using puppets, make puppets using different feather dusters for characters and a red sock for Foxy Loxy

Folk Tales / Fables

 Lessons Learned:

Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ear 

Retelling pieces (teacher created)

One Fine Day

Retelling pieces (teacher created)

The Three Billy-Goats Gruff

 Retelling 

 Problem / Solution Chart

Writing: Classbook 'We Are Brave'

End of the Unit Writing: What is your favorite story? Why?

Graphing our Favorite Stories

FOR ANY FAIRY TALE

• Create Story Map, Sequencing Chart, Problem/Solution Chart, Venn Diagram (different versions of story)
• Draw setting of story
• Give students a house that opens – use to create inside of house
• Create head pieces for retelling
• Allow students to create their own fairy tales using a story map: characters, setting, beg, mid, end
• Read story aloud without showing pictures, have students visualize then draw a scene from the story, compare student illustrations to illustrations in the book
• Discuss fact vs fantasy, list clues for being fantasy
• Make Story Writing Dice for writing station: setting, character, problem
• For Fables – list the lesson that was taught in the story

Gingerbread Stories

Fairy Tale Unit: Gingerbread stories

• Read many versions of Gingerbread
• Chart the characters from each version and what the character’s saying is (Run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man, … with a leap and a twirl, you can’t catch me, I’m the      Gingerbread Girl, etc) and if the character got tricked by the fox or not
• Create our own Gingerbread character
• Write our own Gingerbread story
• Use gingerbreads to create addition and subtraction stories

Story Charts

 

 Graphing: Did The Gingerbread Character Get Eaten?

 Venn Diagram: 

The Gingerbread Man / The Musubi Man (Hawaiian Gingerbread Man)  

 Students created their own Gingerbread character

Gingerbread Cheerleader

Gingerbread Farmer

Gingerbread Baseball Player

Gingerbread Football Player

 Gingerbread Math Problems

 Word Families

Gingerbread Bulletin Board