In our reading series this week, we have been talking about fantasy and things in stories that are real and make believe. Our story this week was
Pouch, but I wasn't crazy about it and wanted my kids to understand fantasy a little bit better, so I pulled out a lesson from last year. Yesterday, we read the classic Little Red Riding Hood. We talked about the parts of the story that were real and the parts that were make believe. This story really helped because there are some far fetched things that happen (people popping out of a wolf's stomach??).
Then, we sorted pictures as to whether they were real or make believe. I *tried* to make a cute Red Riding Hood to attach to our papers, but she didn't quite come out right. However, the kids loved her and that's all the counts, right?
Today we read Little Red Cowboy Hat and compared the story to the classic version. The kids loved it!
You can get the Little Red Riding Hood activities
here {for free!}
We also made a little anchor chart to help us remember what fantasy means. Each child drew something that is fantasy, and we hung it on our chart that will remain in our reading area.
Our reading series also has us learning all about nouns right now. To start, we made a chart and I let the kids tell me all the people, places, and things they could think of.
Today, we sorted pictures into people, places, or things. {You can grab this
here for free as well}
We also did a little activity from Nicole over at
Rowdy in Room 300 that the kids loved! I forgot to take a picture of ours, but you can click
here to get to her activity.
Next week we'll still be working on nouns as well as apples, so I can't wait to use this
idea and
freebie from Alisha over at
The Bubbly Blonde!
That's it for now...how's your week going?