Discuss the hardship the poor widow faced, and what resources might be available to someone in a similar situation now. This story was first written down in the 18th century.Chances are the kids in your class have never heard of this exotic dish, even though we in the United States have a lot in common with our English cousins. The BBC offers a PDF file that shows the very English food, Beans on Toast. “Jack and the Beanstalk” is a traditional English story, and includes the words “I smell the blood of an Englishman!” This could be a very good time to study about England.I’ve put some cross-curricular ideas together for you - you’ll find something for every grade level. Once the story is established, you can carry it beyond reading to the other subject areas. We like to present or retell the story every day during our study, in different ways. Sparklebox has masks to download and cut out, but having kids design their own with paper plates is a creative way to help them think about the characters. Having students make masks and act out the story is another option. Then you might want to use finger puppets for the retelling. Brownielocks has a Fractured Fairytale version. You can find the story online, too, though this version is more challenging. Mary Engelbreit included this story in her Nursery and Fairy Tales Collection. We like Paul Galdone‘s tellings of traditional fairy tales for their balance of faithfulness to the original story and appropriateness for modern children, but Stephen Kellogg and Carol Ottolenghi have both also done wonderful picture books of this story. When we work with older students, who will be familiar with the story, we like to start by having them retell it, and then move on to read and analyze the story and study vocabulary.įor the little ones, read a good picture book first, and then retell the story. With any fairy tale, we have a great opportunity for learning and retelling a story, for sequencing events in the story to recognize the beginning, middle, and end, and for analyzing narrative structure. In the original story, the giant falls and dies, but picture book retellings often leave this out. Jack makes off with the giant’s treasures, barely escapes with his life, and chops down the beanstalk before the giant can climb down. The beans grow into a gigantic beanstalk, which leads Jack to the home of a giant. The basic story here is of Jack, the son of a poor widow, who trades the cow that is their last valuable possession for a handful of magic beans. One fairy tale that’s well suited to multiple grade levels is Jack and the Beanstalk. They are a good example of a literary form, great for studying story elements, and always bring up interesting character points. Like I said, this is one of my favorite units to teach and I have an entire unit that has these fairy tale elements in as well as activities (like the Goldilocks re-telling) for many of the stories that you would read during a fairy tale unit.Folk and fairy tales are suggested in our state frameworks for students from kindergarten through middle school. Then, the students sit together on the carpet and practice re-telling the story and listening to each other. We practice using story telling words and we put the pictures in baggies for each student. I read the story and then we do a re-tell of the story using pictures. When I start Fairy Tales, the first story I read is Goldilocks because that is typically the story that all the kids are the most familiar with. I’m planning on having a pre-k poetry unit done sometime soon! Here’s a copy of the poem that we used and my kids always highlight their sight words and if they have time, I let them color it. Since I’m doing TK this year, I’ve gone back and redone a lot of the poems to make them more appropriate for my TK kiddos. This is just a shorter version of the Kindergarten poem that I already have in my poetry unit. Since Fairy Tales are familiar stories, students are able to think of stories that they’ve read before that fit some of the Fairy Tale elements. We started out by learning about the elements of a Fairy Tale. This week is one my favorite weeks in Kindergarten! It’s Fairy Tale week!
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