~ We Love Cinderella ~ Oh, how we all love Cinderella! We will be reading several versions of this wonderful tale during the year. We recently participated in an Internet project using the Cinderella theme.
Cinderella
Around the World
We used these stories in our Back-to-School unit on "Friendship", The children listened for ways the characters showed or were given friendship. One important thing we noticed was that friends often help each other. The fairy godmother helped Cinderella get to the ball in that tale. In the other story, Nyasha helped a little boy and was kind to other characters as well. Our students showed how they help each other in class: 1st Grade Friends While reading Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters we found Africa on our big world map.
Zimbabwe is in southern Africa. After listening
to both stories, the children contributed comments to be used in our first Venn Diagram of
the year. Mrs. McGowan wrote them on sentence strips. Later the students read the comments
again and placed them on our chalkboard diagram.
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