Saturday, February 16, 2008

The Three Bears

The Three Little Bears, is a fairy tale that we will not discuss in the classroom this semeter, but it is an adorable tale that could be utilized in Pre-K/Kindergarten classrooms. The story tells of a family of bears:Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear. The family leaves their cozy cottage and journeys in the woods to allow their porridge to cool. When the threesome returns, theyt find that someone has been eating their porridge, lounging in their chairs, and sleeping in their beds. They find at the end of the tale that the culprit is a young girl named Goldilocks .
An inventive method to allow the children to enjoy the tale as well as remember the events chronologically is for the educator to express the fairy tale with a felt board and character cut-outs. The activity would be conducted as follows: The educator would need to purchase a felt board, and apply a cut out of a cozy cottage with three beds, three tables topped with three bowls of porridge, and three chairs. In addition, the instructor would need Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear, and Goldilocks cut-outs. Attached to the back of the figures and would be velcro. As the teacher told the story of the Three Little Bears, he/she would stick the velcoro Goldilocks and the three bears cut-outs on the felt board in relation to what the characters are doing in the tale. (For example, if Goldilocks is sitting in the chairs in the bear's home then the instructor would place the Goldilocks cut- out in the chairs on the felt board.) Other fun activities that correspond to this story are found at the website below.

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