Goldilocks

Our theme for the month of February is folk and fairy tales. I figured it would be an easy theme to combine with Valentines since so many of these tales are about love. I'm also excited to spend a month reading fairy tales. Husbandie and I are huge fans of fantasy, what I consider to be a longer-length cousin of fairy tales. Many of our early dates involved discussing J. R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, & J. K. Rowling and we hope to someday share our love for these authors with our…

Our theme for the month of February is folk and fairy tales. I figured it would be an easy theme to combine with Valentines since so many of these tales are about love. I'm also excited to spend a month reading fairy tales. Husbandie and I are huge fans of fantasy, what I consider to be a longer-length cousin of fairy tales. Many of our early dates involved discussing J. R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, & J. K. Rowling and we hope to someday share our love for these authors with our…

Create a Goldilocks sensory storytelling basket using small toys for preschoolers and school aged kids to re-tell the story in their own words!

Who broke the chair? The 3 bears crime scene. Children enjoyed using cameras, phones and magnifying glasses to find clues around the Nursery.

We acted out the story,wrote an apology letter to the three bears, tasted porridge and graphed whether we liked it or not. The stude...

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This is a great way to help children with retelling a story. It builds comprehension, sequencing and it is fun! It is simple - on a long piece of bulletin board paper - draw a winding path. At the beginning of the path, draw a visual clue of the first event. I did this Storytelling Pathway in August when we were learning the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." I had the children tell me what happened first, second, etc and I drew the visual clues. After I drew the story, I let the…

I spoke a while ago about how I like to set up little invitations to play for Immy to find in her play space. Given our recent adventures with breakfast and Goldilocks and her interest in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, she recently got up from her daytime nap to discover this…… […]

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Goldilocks addition using porridge oats :-)