Patterns and Story Telling
December news Story telling We have begun a story telling unit based on the fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel". We have read several versions of the story. We have talked about who the characters are, the locations in the story, the main problem and the solution (happy ever after ending). The children have paper Hansel, Gretel and the witch. This week they retold out the beginning of the story with the characters. At the beginning of next week we will retell out the middle section with the witch and finally the grand finale. I have plans for the children to create a cage that will hold their paper witch as well as an activity where they write up a "For Sale" ad for the witch's candy house. It should be a busy week that will include a lot of hands on activities to help with the pre- Christmas energy! Of course we have our candy house building afternoon as well! Patterns We have begun a unit on patterns in the class. The children are