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Mrs. AndersenKindergarten teacher, Mom, musician, robot aficionado, and milkweed enthusiast. Archives
March 2018
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This week we continued our Fairy Tale study, exploring story elements, predictions, old fashioned tales, modern tales, conventional tales, and "fractured tales" (where an author takes some aspect of the well known story and dramatically changes things). Jan Brett has been a favorite author with her lush detailed illustrations and her use of borders to show what's happening with secondary characters. We introduced the idea of dramatic play through the natural elements (an example being that students using twigs, rocks and leaves to build the houses of the Three Little Pigs). The students had to collaborate to build their setting. Once they accomplished this, we gave them three stones and a piece of sea glass to play the parts. Students truly had to depend on one another to remember and enact the stories. Later, inside the classroom, we used the paper puppets and props we'd colored to act out the story again, adding a "microphone" (toilet roll with duck tape on top) so that students could try "narrating" the play alongside their friends. This has been such an experience of teamwork and I'll never go back to simply learning and acting these plays indoors. So much to learn from building and doing this together outside!
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Mrs. AndersenKindergarten teacher, Mom, musician, robot aficionado, and milkweed enthusiast. Archives
March 2018
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