My students need props, such as Five Little Monkeys on the Bed and Three Little Pigs, to help them retell their favorite library stories!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Herman's classroom raised $521
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
As the librarian in a Pre K to fifth grade school, I read to over seven hundred students each week. Many students ask me to read that story again!
While I enjoy reading my students different versions of classic folk tales, I would like them to be able to retell the story on their own. The younger students enjoy making small paper puppets of their favorite characters so they can retell the story. I would like them to have all of the different characters from the story and have them not just made of paper. Students of all ages enjoy retelling the story. Having all of the pieces to the story helps them to recreate the scene.
It is also great way for them to compare and contrast the different versions of the stories. If you haven’t yet read “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” told from the wolf's point of view or “The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig”, you are missing out! My students can tell you all about them. This year we will be reading “The Seals on the Bus”, “Gingerbread Baby”, “Little Red Ridin’ in the ‘Hood” and other twists on the classics. Since close to 60% of these students are working towards learning English as a second language, using props to retell the story is a great opportunity for them to improve their vocabulary.
By providing the students with storytelling sets (basically little stuffed animals of the characters in the story) and felt board pieces of these classic stories, they will be able to retell the stories again and again. During library class each week students are allowed to select an activity once they have picked out their new book for the week. I am confident that if I am able to offer these storytelling sets and felt board pieces to the students that this will become a very popular library activity.
You can help foster a love of literacy by allowing my students to use high quality materials to retell these classic stories again and again.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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