Has your student retold their Folktale to you?!

We sewed our mittens together.

Has your student retold you their Folktale yet? If not, ask them about it....they were wonderful!

As many of you remember, our kindergarten class has been focusing on learning how to retell stories which include characters, setting, problem/solution, and beginning/middle/end. We have ALSO been discussing Folktales and have learned that these stories often have many different versions of the same story. We talk about Folktales being passed down from generation to generation, so if your Papa told your mom a story, and your mom tells you, and then when you're grown up and tell the story to your child, will the story be the same? And the students know that of course it won't! 

After learning all of this, yesterday we were able to create our OWN version of The Mitten! Each student created their own mitten, five animal characters, and then retold their version of the story to a partner. I hope that they all came home to share their Folktale, The Mitten, with you!

We came up with our own characters, like these ones...a lion, a Chihuahua, and a cricket!

Then, the students put their mittens and characters together.....

And began to retell their own versions of the Folktale, The Mitten!

Their characters were so inventive. And, their story retelling skills are really wonderful to see! 

The version of The Mitten we have been reading a lot is Jan Brett's version read on YouTube below. Practice retelling the story after you watch the video at home!