Check out those skinny "straw" legs! |
Anyway, I"m on a reader's theater kick. We did Jack and the Beanstalk last week LINK HERE and this week we are doing The Little Red Hen. I found a cute script for it online at HERE at Joanne's wikispace. and then I found some puppets for the story and made copies and blew them up for each student to do a set of 4.

Afterwards I realized the animals don't match to the reader's theater. So I just used a white out pen and changed out the characters of the pig and duck to the mouse and cat throughout the story on my copy of the reader's theater. Then I made copies for all the kids to read it too. They LOVED reading and acting out the parts. I gave each table a character to read chorally.
Some other readers theaters can be found at the Grandview Library. Some of them are illustrated. The link is HERE for Reader's Theaters.
They made puppets by coloring them and cutting them out. Then we taped popsicle sticks to the backs. While they were doing their puppets I read them a VERSION of the little red hen in rhyme. It is called The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) It is a funny story where she is actually making a pizza and all the animals are doing funny things like listening to boom boxes and laying out by the pool on a chaise lounge. We will compare and contrast the stories when we are done with both the reader's theater version and the book version. I had no idea there were so many out there!!
Venn Diagram of the 2 Stories of Little Red Hen |
Andrew, Trace and Vera...painting party.... |
My kids are really good at using expression and getting into doing character voices. It's such a cute story. And as we were getting into the readers theater I thought about how fun it would have been to bring in some homemade bread dough and have the cafeteria ladies bake it for us! Super FUN! (too bad I didn't think of it sooner! duh!)
Then after sloppy copies, editing, they wrote their final copies and colored illustrated paper. |
Then we painted LITTLE RED HENS! Here's Emma and Addie painting their hens.... |
We painted paper plates red and added white sticker eyes, a yellow beak, wings and a feather on top. The legs are drinking straws and we added little hen feet to the bendy part of the straws. They turned out ridiculous looking but funny. pick a peck a....cheep cheep cheep!
Peter's funny Red Hen story... Lots of kids had dialogue with quotation marks....yeah that is not my favorite thing to have to edit....snicker.... |
Wacky Red Hen bulletin board....with our funny stories....I LOVED them ALL! |
3 comments:
Great ideas! I'm using Little Red Hen to teach Character Counts--Fairness--with a first grade teacher. I'm 2nd grade, and it's been a little discouraging to see only Kinder ideas :o) Will definitely be borrowing!
Thank you! And you will love 2nd grade. I think it is my favorite grade to teach. They can do so much more right out of the gate, and they will get your jokes a little bit more....:D
I love the activities and I am doing this with my K and 1st grade ELL students!
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