Okay...so according to my last post, boys do not like fairytales- well guess what?! They did today and it was the greatest day EVER! See, apparently they like fairy tales when they have something to do with drama...and primary kids LOOOOVE drama- especially my kids! So when I had them pretend to BE fairy tale characters and interview their friends (who were other characters), they thought it was the greatest idea ever. They would not stop bugging me all day: "Miss Kalisz is it time for our interviews yet?" "Miss Kalisz, do we have to do reading? When can we do interviews?" "Is it time for us to do drama yet???"- this went on all day...until it was "time"....
And it was fabulous! Kids were on the floor CRYING because some of the dramatizations were hilarious- one little girl (or should I say, Rumpelstiltskin) actually hunched over, made her voice raspy, and started talking to the audience about how she promises NOT to steal their babies- brilliant! My associate and I even conducted our own interview (with him being a princess of course- this was payback for the "African Dance" fiasco)- the kids loved it!
The kids were great- even the shyest kids and the BOYS completely surprised me- it was such a great day because we all had a lot of fun....and it showed me that even though not all of my fairy tale activities were "loved", this one day made up for it all :)
2 comments:
I really enjoyed that story! I'm pretty sure every child, boy or girl, loves fairy tales. The boys were probably just trying to be tough haha. But they proved to you in the end that they enjoyed it! Good for you for thinking on your toes. That's something I still need to work on I feel.
Oh, and by the way, Spongebob is TOTALLY a classic fairytale creature haha. I would have accepted Shrek as well, did anyone pretend to be him??
It seems evident to me that you had a very successful block with your grade three students. It's a shame we have to go back to the real world. Congrats on turning that unit into a very successful one!!!
And way to get back at your associate by making him be a princess...GENIUS haha! That was well deserved on his part!
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