Once upon a time..

Who doesn't love a good fairy tale?  I, for one, have always been rather fond of them.  I love how there are so many different versions out there.  They are such a valuable tool in teaching students about story elements like characters, problems, and solutions.  All fairy tales have good characters and the not so good characters that usually have some kind of problem with each other that must be solved.  We read as many fairy tales as we possibly could fit into one week, and I wish we could have read more. :-)  We had so much fun with all of the neat projects and writing we worked on during this unit.  Man, I sure do love Pinterest.  We have found some of the most adorable activities for our units just by doing a little searching.  Check out a few of the things we created during our magical fairy tale week!

Here are our Rapunzel towers!  Girls wrote about what they would do if locked in a tower, and boys wrote about how they would rescue someone locked in a tower. 

We read a few different versions of Cinderella and wrote about what we would ask for if we had a Fairy Godmother.  Aren't these cute??  This came from Life In First Grade. 

We made these watches to show how Cinderella changed over time in the story (beginning to end). 

We read the traditional story of The Princes and the Pea and Ms. Herron found this book

that tells the story from the Pea's perspective.  Now that's a new way of looking at things.  It was great to talk about point of view and voice. We created this visual to go with a writing about what makes a good princess (also from Life in First Grade).


We also read Jack and the Beanstalk and created the characters and other story elements to put on a giant beanstalk.

We read Dusty Locks and the Three Bears and created this news clipping about her heinous crimes!!
This activity and the Wanted poster described below came from a fairy tales unit I got on TpT.  Click here to see the unit. 

We chose one of our "evil" characters to create a wanted poster for on Friday. 

 

Check out the amazing castle Ms. Schiffer created to display all of our fairy tale work!  Isn't she awesome??

The best though was our Reader's Theatre on Friday.  We split into small groups and were given a fairy tale script.  Each person had a part to play.  The groups were given time to rehearse and work out any actions/voices.  Then each group performed their fairy tale.  This was soo much fun!!  I cannot even tell you how impressed we were with each and every child!!  We will definitely be doing this again!!!  I will try to add videos soon!