This month is Cinderella. There are LOTS of versions of Cinderella out there. Here are a few we are using:
Cinderella by Michele Marineau (a modern Cinderella)
Cinderella by Ruth Sanderson
Bigfoot Cinderrrrella by Tony Johnston and James Warhola (This one is really funny!)
Adelita by Tomie de Paola (A Mexican Cinderella Story)
and of course Walt Disney's Cinderella! (I have a modern Disney book as well as one from when I was a kids so we can compare the differences in the characters and the way they drew them.)
I have some Cinderella resources in the margin of my blog. These are free lessons and printables.
For each fairy tale I make a chart and Claire records the differences in the books. Here is the Cinderella one along with the Jack & the Beanstalk and Little Red Hen...
Now that we've started doing lapbooks we are also going to do a lapbook for each fairy tale. We are doing an Autumn on for Cinderella. (just because that's the one I started in the class I took) We will be doing one on wolves with Little Red Riding Hood and one on frogs for the Princess and the Frog.
Claire loves her "literature class" this year. These stories have been a great way to make learning fun!
4 comments:
Hi, I scrolled through your lesson plans and they're great!
One think I also like to do - especially once I've covered a few fairy tales, is to produce a chart of the most common elements of fairy tales (e.g. wicked witch, magical object, magical power, princess) running down the side, and fairy tale names along the top of the page and then we check of the elements as they appear in each tale.
Then in older grades they use this process with other genres and it helps them in doing a comparison. I'm doing that with grade 6 students right now - comparing science fiction to fairy tales.
Evelyn in Montreal
How fun and perfect for your little princess to learn about! What a great topic...beloved Cinderella!
Evelyn, I love that idea of having a running chart of fairy tale elements!
I love fairy tale units. I did one when I was student teaching and we studied castles and midevil times for the history lessons. Love your book choices too!
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