So I learned a very valuable lesson this week: 8 year old boys do not like fairy tales- they hear the word fairy and they freak out. Another word that they hate? Princess. Again...these are things I learned this week AFTER I had created a whole one-week unit based on fairy tales...I figured one week I would teach about fables, another week I would let the students enter into the wonderful and magical word of castles and dragons and princes and princesses....nope...boys didn't go for it. So today I "gave in" and allowed "Disney", t.v show and biblical characters enter into the lesson- this is called quick thinking, and adapting lessons to your students' needs- as much as I do NOT believe that Spongebob Squarepants should be called a "classic" fairy tale character, I somehow made him fit into the lesson...which just goes to show, teachers must ALWAYS be ready to change their lessons at the blink of an eye....
So to all of you future grade 3 teachers here is a friendly hint for you: Fables = GREAT gender neutral topic...fairytales? Yeah...go with some Robert Munsch instead ;)
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