This is a great folktale to use for cross curriculum. The illustrations are beautiful and truly capture the Western African culture. I have my students locate Africa on a world map. Then I explain to my students that Africa has deserts, mountains, grasslands, and tropical rain forests. It’s really important to build background knowledge before reading the folktale. I read the folktale "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears" aloud to my students. In this lesson, students will draw on their prior knowledge and use the information from the text to make inferences. Explain that they will make inferences about this book, based on what they already know along with clues from behavior. This was one of my favorite folktale when I was younger, and that is why I wanted to create a fun, bold handout to go along with my lesson on folktales. How I used handout 1: "Elements of a Folktale" The teacher should model how to use the graphic organizer. The students will complete a graphic organizer on the story. I used this in a second grade setting, so I MODELED MODELED MODELED. Make sure to discuss with your class the moral of this folktale. I like this folktale because there are lots of animals blaming others for causing the owlet to die. I recommend this folktale to others because it will teach students not to jump to conclusions. How I used handout 2: "Illustrating the Main Event" This is a simple handout to assess your students on moral and important story events within in the folktale. The handout instructs the students to illustrate the most Important event that happened in the story and to write down the story's moral. I LOVE to see what event my students thought was the most important and how they illustrate the story. MORE FUN FOLKTALE HANDOUTS CAN BE FOUND AT MY SHOP: Jake and the Beanstalk Stone Soup
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I finished putting together the Scrappy Mountain Majesties quilt top this week. I was thinking about whether to add a border or not. As of this moment, I'm leaning strongly towards "not." It's about 60 x 75 inches and will make a nice-sized lap quilt. I hung it in front of the sliding door this morning for a stained glass effect. Pretty cool! You get the idea. One more, though. :) What makes me happy about this quilt—well, there are lot of things, but one of them—is that I used some interesting pieces of fabric from stash. I didn't feel like I had enough variety of light fabrics on hand, and I was close to grabbing the car keys and making a dash to the fabric store on one or two occasions, but ultimately my stubbornness about using only stash and making it work won out. For instance, here you can see a yellow and white background fabric that is actually little yellow dress forms. That is a vintage feed sack fabric. I literally had to remove the chain stitching along the side of the sack to open it up before pressing and cutting into it (I'd soaked and washed it a while back after I first brought it home). I'm guessing it's from the 1940s or '50s. The crossed Native American drumsticks print was a vintage cotton curtain I found at a flea market about five years ago. Then there is a blue and yellow men's shirt fabric among the light fabrics. Both the sun/moon print and the Kelly green are thrift store finds. I also used the reverse side of a yellowish-tan fabric as one of the lights, because it was a more compatible shade of ivory versus the right side of the fabric. I'm so glad my daughter helped me see that putting the pieces together by color could work nicely. I didn't follow her idea to the letter, but it got me thinking along that line instead of the random way I had intended to go with the piecing. This is a free Bonnie Hunter pattern, Scrappy Mountain Majesties, which you can find at Quiltville HERE. I'll be linking to Whoop-Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.
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