This has been a great week of learning in our classroom. Students have been reexamining a popular fairy tale known as The Three Little Pigs. We read three different versions of the story this week and practiced the skill of identifying scenes in a story and summarizing them in a sensible sequence.
Students were read Eugene Triviza's The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, James Marshall's The Three Little Pigs, and John Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Students sequenced each story through writing, illustration and discussion. Students were given a writing prompt this week that asked them to identify their favorite version of the story and to support their opinion with reasoning. Students did a wonderful job identifying different things that interested them. Some opinions included "I liked when the pig used a sledge hammer!" "Because the wolves were in place of the pigs!"
Next week students will be placed in groups and asked to reenact the story using felt puppets we are making this afternoon. Students will practice and perform the story in our reading workshop time. Mr. Grace will be helping us to record our performances on the school flip cameras so that we can upload them for you all to enjoy on our blog!
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