To introduce students to our storytelling curriculum, I use Jan Brett's The Mitten. We read this story twice before acting it out.
We identified the characters in the story, and students chose which part they wanted to play. We pretended crawling under the tables was crawling into the mitten. As I read through the story, the actors moved into the mitten at their character's time. Half the class acted out the story while the other half observed, as the audience. We then switched roles so everyone had a chance to participate.
In your child's portfolio you will find a mitten your child sewed together and The Mitten characters your child coloured and cut out. During Student Led Conferences in February one of your child's tasks will be to retell you the story of The Mitten.
We identified the characters in the story, and students chose which part they wanted to play. We pretended crawling under the tables was crawling into the mitten. As I read through the story, the actors moved into the mitten at their character's time. Half the class acted out the story while the other half observed, as the audience. We then switched roles so everyone had a chance to participate.
In your child's portfolio you will find a mitten your child sewed together and The Mitten characters your child coloured and cut out. During Student Led Conferences in February one of your child's tasks will be to retell you the story of The Mitten.