Here are some of the things we did this week for our Fairy Tale/Storybook Character Unit: We talked about what a fairy tale is and what fairy tales sometimes have in them. We talked about the Story Elements in each of the Fairy Tales we read this week. Little Red Riding Hood Here is the chart I used to fill in the Story Elements as we talked about them as a class. While filling this chart out, we made our characters and set up our classroom (setting) so we could act out the story. Little Red Riding Hood Activity: They made a picture of Little Red Riding Hood and then filled in the boxes describing her. Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears We filled this in after reading the story. I had the students make this story character map for Goldilocks. Cinderella We filled this in together as a class. I laminated these Story Element Anchor Charts so I could write on them with an Expo Marker and easily wipe them off! Writing Activity: If I had a Fairy Godmother... The Three Little Pigs I read two versions of The Three Little Pigs and we compared the two stories. I had the students fill out these WANTED posters for the Big Bad Wolf. Jack and the Beanstalk We did a measurement activity. The Frog Prince Graphing Activity: Would you kiss a frog? Fairy Tale Elements Chart: After reading each fairy tale we went through and marked what fairy tale elements the book had. Storybook Character Dress-up Day: To end our unit we had the students dress up as their favorite storybook character. They came to school dressed in their costume with their book and we guessed who they were. Even all the first grade teachers dressed up! Here is just a peek at some of the storybook characters the first grade teachers have dressed us as during the years. The Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Alice in Wonderland All Laura Numeroff book characters! Click HERE to download my Fairy Tale Unit from my TpT store!
Want a new way to enjoy Fairy Tales with your kids? Read together, then explore math and engineering with this set of Fairy Tale STEM challenges for K-5!
Slight change of plans today. We did not begin our fairy tales unit with The Princess and the Pea . Instead, we opened with The Frog Prince...
These fun fairy tale activities for kindergarten are a great way to keep your students engaged in math and literacy practice throughout the year!
Do your students need to get up and move a little during the day? Would you like them to still have engaging learning opportunities while moving? Write The Room enables children to move and learn. This activity is differentiated to meet the needs of learners who are learning or reading words in isolation as well as learners who are already learning. This Write The Room activity helps to begin to develop mapping skills through Fairy tales. Children look for clue cards throughout the room and either refer to the picture clue and determine where to glue a picture on a Fairy Tale Map or read a clue and determine where to glue a picture on a Fairy Tale Map. Included: Colored, Numbered Fairy Tale Mapping Clue Cards 8 Picture Version for each Fairy Tale 8 Word Clue Version for each Fairy Tale 1 Read The Room Recording Page Map unique to each Fairy Tale 1 Read The Room Cut/Sort/Glue sorting circles for each Fairy Tale Focus Stories Include: Three Little Pigs The Three Bears Little Red Riding Hood Jack And The Beanstalk The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Fairy tales are old stories told and retold again, but do they deserve a place in a modern language arts curriculum? Besides the fact that the Common Core standards require exposure to fairy tales, there
I have to admit. I love the classroom transformations that we've done this year so far. When my students walk into the classroom, their eyes light up! We had so much fun learning about the elements of fairy tales and it made it even more fun with a fairy tale classroom transformation! Transform Your Room!
Y'all I love teaching with Fairy Tales SO, SO much! I know I've said it before, but it's probably one my favorite unit to teach all year!!...
Once Upon a Time.... Whew!! My how this summer is flying by...and my how long it has been since I posted anything to this blog! Sorr...
These fun fairy tale activities for kindergarten are a great way to keep your students engaged in math and literacy practice throughout the year!
Fairy Tales STEM Blog Series What are STEM Tales? STEM Tales are a way to integrate literacy and STEM/STEAM activities for kids in first through third grade. The stories engage the kids, and as they read through the story they are seamlessly lead through the Engineering Design Process. Click any of the images below to read more about the STEM challenge, read this post about how to run a STEM tale challenge, or visit my Teachers pay Teachers shop where you can purchase one STEM tale, sets of 3, or 12 altogether. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Robin Hood Rapunzel Hansel and Gretel Beauty and the Beast Jack and the Beanstalk The Ugly Duckling The 3 Billy Goats Gruff The 3 Little Pigs Snow White Little Red Riding Hood The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Creating fairy tale story maps are a fun and engaging way to integrate literacy and social studies in kindergarten, first, or second grade.
Stem Activities for Kindergarten-2nd Grade. Students collect clues by completing STEM and math activities to break the spell on Cinderella.
Looking for fun Fairy Tale Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Learning Activities and Centers for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Roll a fairy tale ist eine Methode um die Kreativität der Schüler anzuregen und ihnen das Schreiben "schmackhafter" zu machen.
This outdoor game for kids who love fairy tales comes with its own printable cards! Each card has an action related to a different fairy tale!
Fairy tales are old stories told and retold again, but do they deserve a place in a modern language arts curriculum? Besides the fact that the Common Core standards require exposure to fairy tales, there
Want a new way to enjoy Fairy Tales with your kids? Read together, then explore math and engineering with this set of Fairy Tale STEM challenges for K-5!
Help your students understand the basic features of a fractured fairy tale with this unit plan and activity bundle. Bring your writing lessons to life as the unit plan walks you through everything you need to thoroughly cover the (AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, AC9E4LY08, AC9E4LY09) element of the Australian Year 4 English curriculum (version 9.0). Fun for students, easy for you to implement and an irresistible way to help budding authors write a fractured fairy tale that is bound to excite their reader!
Fairy Tale Printables and Activities - My kids will love doing these this summer!
Looking for fun Fairy Tale Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Learning Activities and Centers for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Download These Fairy Tales Coloring Book Pages and Craftivities Today for your Kindergarten or First Grade Classroom!
Every grade level loves to make castles. I wanted an easy fairy tale castles project for my second grade students.
Are you reading fairy tales??? Last week, I shared with you how to make CUTE fire-breathing dragon heads ! Today, I'll be sharing a sim...
Are you reading fairy tales??? Last week, I shared with you how to make CUTE fire-breathing dragon heads ! Today, I'll be sharing a sim...
Preschool Enchantment Unit Studies Week 3: Goldilocks & the Three Bears Add hands-on learning activities & crafts to your homeschool preschool fun. Includes: Welcome to Preschool Enchantment letter Why Fairy Tales, Fables, & Nursery Rhymes? (with cards to help explain to your kids!) Preschool Enchantment Songs Printable Pack for Goldilocks & the Three Bears with: **story props **color by number **color by letter **mini-book **tracing activities **simple mazes **preschool STEM Suggested Plan for Week with: **Letter of Week **Number of Week
Fairy Tales activities unit with literacy printables, reading companion activities, and lesson ideas for First Grade and Second Grade
Grab these Little Red Riding Hood Worksheets to work on number recognition as you color by number along with a classic childhood story.
The end is near friends. We have 15 days of school left and I am teacher tired. The next three weeks of plans are going to be engaging, quick and simple. No grading will be done because all students who follow directions and behave will have speaking standards and crafts. Students who don't behave will have to write loooooooong summaries. So you see it's best to just listen to Mrs. Labrasciano and have fun. The crafts I've created are quick and easy so that students can work on them independently. The materials are inexpensive because I, like all teachers this time of year am BROKE. Check back next week for one more week of fairy tale fun and end of the year thematic units!! This craft was created with a paper plate, google eyes, red paper and a crown template. For bellwork I will have students paint one side of the paper plate. It's quick and easy because you just squeeze the paint on the plate. The plates will dry within the hour and the students will paint the other side after reading "The Frog Prince". Once the second side dries students will fold the plate in half, add the eyes, tongue and nose. To finish off the craft students will use a crown template to create a crown for their frog. Our Ugly Duckling swan craft was created with one paper plate, a google eye and a scrap of orange paper. Students cut through the center of the plate until they get to the ridges on the other side. They then follow the ridges to cut out the neck and face. They can use the scrap plate to create the wing. Students place a bill and eye on the swan and voila, they have an adorable swan that didn't drive you bonkers. The Three Little Pigs Craft was created with a sheet of pink paper and google eyes. I give my students templates to cut out the circles and triangles. Once they glue the shapes together they can add eyes, nose and mouth. For this craft I provide students with: two rose printable, one/half Popsicle stick, one dot of clay, one cup and a circle. Students color the roses. When they are done they fold them in half and glue them together to make a 3d rose. Then they glue the rose to the stick. Once the rose dries they can use the clay to stick the rose onto the circle and place the glass on top. For an added bonus we give these roses to their moms for Mother's Day. The Snow White craft needs a small square of tin foil, a mirror template, blue paper and other decorating items in red and gold (if you want to stay with the Disney colors.). Students use the template to cut the mirrors out. Then they glue the foil to the back. Once done they go wild decorating them and you get a few minutes of peace before you think about how much the custodians are going to hate you. If you click on the link below you will find two weeks worth of my writing lesson plans and free materials. If you are in need of any print and go materials, templates or other fairy tale ideas, click below. The Fairy Tale Minute To Win It Unit is one of my student's favorites!! SaveSave
Looking for fun Fairy Tale Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Learning Activities and Centers for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Over the last few weeks, ALuv {2nd grade} has been studying fairy tales. To accompany our study, I created several activities for him and today, I’m sharing them with you! {Link to download is at the end of the post.} Recording Fairy Tale Features Although he was already familiar with many of the fairy tales ... Read More about FREE Fairy Tale Printable Pack {for Reading, Writing, and Storytelling}
This resource creates a display of the most common elements in Fairy Tales. Print the different elements and assemble them on a display board to create a large castle shape. The display covers Story Structure, Plot, Settings, and Characters.
1-2-3 Come Do Some Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale Activities With Me One of the many themes I do with my students is fairy tales, they absolutely love this genre. No matter what time of year you slip in a fairy tale or two, I think your students will enjoy making these "hands-on" craftivi...
Free & funny readers' theater scripts by T. P. Jagger. Use readers' theater (readers' theatre) scripts to improve students' reading fluency.
Here are some of the things we did this week for our Fairy Tale/Storybook Character Unit: We talked about what a fairy tale is and what fairy tales sometimes have in them. We talked about the Story Elements in each of the Fairy Tales we read this week. Little Red Riding Hood Here is the chart I used to fill in the Story Elements as we talked about them as a class. While filling this chart out, we made our characters and set up our classroom (setting) so we could act out the story. Little Red Riding Hood Activity: They made a picture of Little Red Riding Hood and then filled in the boxes describing her. Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears We filled this in after reading the story. I had the students make this story character map for Goldilocks. Cinderella We filled this in together as a class. I laminated these Story Element Anchor Charts so I could write on them with an Expo Marker and easily wipe them off! Writing Activity: If I had a Fairy Godmother... The Three Little Pigs I read two versions of The Three Little Pigs and we compared the two stories. I had the students fill out these WANTED posters for the Big Bad Wolf. Jack and the Beanstalk We did a measurement activity. The Frog Prince Graphing Activity: Would you kiss a frog? Fairy Tale Elements Chart: After reading each fairy tale we went through and marked what fairy tale elements the book had. Storybook Character Dress-up Day: To end our unit we had the students dress up as their favorite storybook character. They came to school dressed in their costume with their book and we guessed who they were. Even all the first grade teachers dressed up! Here is just a peek at some of the storybook characters the first grade teachers have dressed us as during the years. The Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Alice in Wonderland All Laura Numeroff book characters! Click HERE to download my Fairy Tale Unit from my TpT store!
Looking for an innovative, new way to integrate literature with other content areas? Or maybe teaching a unit on folk and fairy tales? Do you want a way to engage your students in differentiated, interdisciplinary tasks? Then this "Emperor's New Clothes" resource pack will be perfect for you and your little learners. This favorite fairy tale, which has been around since the 1800's, tells the story of a prideful emperor, a couple of sly swindlers, and the refreshing, common sense of a child. Complete with cross-curricular resources that teach critical thinking, creative thinking, and communication, your students will have a blast in this fairy tale kingdom! Use these alone, in tandem with other literature activities, across content areas, in classroom learning centers, etc. From accenting a study on emperor penguins to developing higher order thinking skills, the possibilities are endless. I hope you enjoy and watch for even more packs like these from me in the coming days and weeks. Happily ever after, Shannon Copyright 2013, Shannon L. Bryant http://bryantsbraintrain.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/BryantsBrainTrain
Kids will love these Little Red Riding Hood worksheets that make practicing math and literacy skills FUN! Printables include math, literacy, and sequencing.
Fairy tales are a perfect springboard for little ones imaginations. We just returned from a family trip to Disney so there could not be a more perfect time to explore queens, kings, princesses, witches, dragons and more with this theme! There was just way too much fun to pack into one week so we split […]
