Mrs. Wishy Washy Story Retelling

This week during reading, we specifically focused on talking about the 3 ways you can read a story. We read the same story all week and practiced the 3 ways to read. We read the pictures, we read the words, and on Thursday and Friday, we practiced retelling the story. 

Today, we created puppets to use both at school and at home to practice retelling the story. Retelling the story is often a hard concept, because not only do you have to get the order of events right, but you have to remember important details as well! I was really impressed by my friends who retold the story for me today.

Here are some sweet videos of my friends who retold the story, Mrs. Wishy Washy, today for me.

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Sequencing/Retelling the story of the first Thanksgiving

Last week, we read The First Thanksgiving and The Story of the Pilgrims. We identified important events in the story and sequenced them on Friday. 

Today, we created bracelets to help us tell the story. We decided to use certain colors of beads to signify events in the story. 

Here are the colors of beads we chose and their significance:

• One brown bead to represent the Pilgrims leaving England for religious freedom
• A white bead to represent the sails on the Mayflower
• Three blue beads to represent the LONG trip over the ocean
• One green bead for when the Pilgrims finally saw land
• One clear bead and three white beads to represent the long, cold, terrible winter (clear for ice and white for snow)
• 1 green for winter turning to spring
• 1 brown for the Native Americans befriending the Pilgrims
• 3 beads to represent food at the first Thanksgiving feast (red for cranberries, yellow for corn, orange for pumpkin)

We agreed that these colors helped us to remember the story, so we created our bracelets. Here are a few pictures of us making our bracelets. 

Tomorrow, we will use our bracelets to help us tell a friend the story of the First Thanksgiving at our Kindergarten celebration. We will also bring our bracelets home tomorrow so that we can tell you the story of the first Thanksgiving!

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Goldilocks and The Three Bears

This week during reading, we really focused on our story retelling skills. We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We got in groups and practiced retelling the events of the story. Our groups performed for our class, and then one group (that I drew out of a hat) performed for ALL of kindergarten on Friday afternoon! We had so much fun.

 Here is a video of one of our classroom performances:

Then, we got on the big stage in the cafeteria and performed. Here are some pictures from our performance:

I am so proud of my kinder friends and the way they worked hard and practiced all week long to retell the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. Way to go, friends!

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