In Pre-K, "Retelling a story" is an important standard.
Retelling can be done by simply recalling scenes from the story, or
drawing a picture or reenactment using props. We decided to reenact "The Mitten".
The Mitten by Jan Brett is a very good book to read and is perfect if your theme of the week is "Winter". It is a story about a little boy who looses a mitten in snow and some animals make that mitten their home until the mitten stretches and pops. It is a cute little story about winter animals trying to get ready for their long sleep! There are few versions of this title.... and most of them have similar animals.
We got our masks from Jan Brett's website . All you have to do is print them, laminate for longevity and use them. Pre-K 4 kiddos enjoyed it..... We did not have Jan Brett's version. Our version had just 5 animals, so we had to do this reenactment several times in order to give everyone a chance.
Our version book came with CD. So we listened to the story during large group time. At this time we retold story by sequencing the events in the story.
Later in the day, we did reenactment. We sat in a circle, and the 5 masked animal friends waited while Ms. J read the story.
As the animals were called, they got into the mitten (Blanket for us).
We insisted they hold their masks up.... just for fun!! and the picture too ;)
As the mitten popped.. all the animals jumped out of the blanket and went back to their spots.
Kiddos loved waiting for each animal to get under the blanket and then for all 5 to pop out.... for them that was the most exciting part. However, 5 rounds later...... all kiddos could retell the story :D
A simple thing like reenactment makes learning so much fun. Lucky for us it was super cold that day, so this was perfect activity to keep us busy during our outside play time.
Besides masks, using puppets or pictures glued on popsicle sticks make retelling fun!!
Until next time,
Cheers =)
The Mitten by Jan Brett is a very good book to read and is perfect if your theme of the week is "Winter". It is a story about a little boy who looses a mitten in snow and some animals make that mitten their home until the mitten stretches and pops. It is a cute little story about winter animals trying to get ready for their long sleep! There are few versions of this title.... and most of them have similar animals.
We got our masks from Jan Brett's website . All you have to do is print them, laminate for longevity and use them. Pre-K 4 kiddos enjoyed it..... We did not have Jan Brett's version. Our version had just 5 animals, so we had to do this reenactment several times in order to give everyone a chance.
Our version book came with CD. So we listened to the story during large group time. At this time we retold story by sequencing the events in the story.
Later in the day, we did reenactment. We sat in a circle, and the 5 masked animal friends waited while Ms. J read the story.
As the animals were called, they got into the mitten (Blanket for us).
We insisted they hold their masks up.... just for fun!! and the picture too ;)
As the mitten popped.. all the animals jumped out of the blanket and went back to their spots.
Kiddos loved waiting for each animal to get under the blanket and then for all 5 to pop out.... for them that was the most exciting part. However, 5 rounds later...... all kiddos could retell the story :D
A simple thing like reenactment makes learning so much fun. Lucky for us it was super cold that day, so this was perfect activity to keep us busy during our outside play time.
Besides masks, using puppets or pictures glued on popsicle sticks make retelling fun!!
Until next time,
Cheers =)
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