I have to confess that this is one of my favorite units to teach!! I love fairy tales, the children aways get really into fairy tales and are always so entertained by various versions of one story. There are endless ways to engage children because there is something for everyone in fairy tale stories: beautiful princesses, heros, bad guys, magic, humor!
Before we bid adieu to fairy tales, I want to show off some of the creative work the students completed in the last few days of our unit:
The culmination of our fairy tale unit involved children writing their very own fairy tale. They had so much fun with this! I scaffolded the activity by providing a template for them to follow. See the examples below:
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| In order to reinforce the characteristics in a fairy tale, children completed this activity. After a fairy tale read-aloud, children checked off which elements the story had and then wrote a sentence about what they thought the most important part of the story was. |
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| The children LOVED the story of the Three Little Pigs (and we read several versions)! To get their creative juices flowing, I prompted them to write about the house they would build if they were one of the Little Pigs. Some went with the brick house, some made up their own ideas entirely! |
The culmination of our fairy tale unit involved children writing their very own fairy tale. They had so much fun with this! I scaffolded the activity by providing a template for them to follow. See the examples below:
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| "The Prince and the Princess" |
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| "Once upon a time, there was a princess, prince and a hourse that was a villain and he had a magic potion. And the hourse put a spell, and the horse put his finger out and the horse walked ove the the prince." |
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| "There was a problem because the princess saw that the prince was on the ground." |
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| "So to solve the problem, the Fairy Godmother came over to save the prince with her potion magic because it woke the prince up from the magic spell." |
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| "And they all lived happily ever after!" |
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| "Once upon a time there was a princess and she had a baby. Her baby girl grew up." |
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| "There was a problem because a mean witch got a spell on the princess" |
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| "So to solve the problem a prince kissed the girl." |
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