Format
We have loads of Food Folktale Stories to choose from: Stone Soup, The Magic Porridge Pot, The Gingerbread Boy, Anansi and the Hot Bean Soup, or Anansi and the Tiger's Soup.
1. Students enjoy a paper-cutting story that involves food! For example, Valerie cuts out Anansi while she tells the Hot Bean soup story.
2. Students explore and identify a variety of symmetrical objects.
3. We discuss "Character, Problem, Solution" and identify these elements.
4. Students use their art skills to create their own symmetrical food object for their folktale.
5. We enjoy a second food folktale using sign language.
6. Each student uses the food stickers and paper plates that we mail you to create a completely original story.
7. We review all the signs we learned and the stories so the students feel confident to share at home.
Objectives
Students engage in food folktales, sign language, and creative writing. In the process, they will
1. create his/her original folktale to tell using food stickers that they put on their paper plate.
2. develop her/his own version of one of the stories and include their favorite food!
3. be able to identify the important parts of a story: character, setting, problem, solution.
4. compare one of the folktales we tell to a folktale that he/she is already familiar with.
5. develop an awareness and appreciation of stories that are told orally.
6. retell a folktale that we enjoyed together.
7. discuss the elements of a folktale such as a repeated refrain, the number three, fiction.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
-NS/CCSS
-Literacy RI K to 8, RL 1 to 10,
-Writing WK.1 to 8.10
-Speaking & Listening SL K,1 to 5.6
-Art NA-VA,K-4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, NA-T.K-4.2, NA-D.K-4.1-3
-Math K.G.A.1, K.G.A.2, 1.G.A.1, 1.G.A.2, 2.G.A.1
State Standards
Valerie will tailor this program to meet your particular standard objectives.