Happy Spring!
As we welcomed Spring this year, we decided to do a class play based on a book that the 3A friends adored: The Three Little Pigs!
On class picture day, as we were waiting for our turn to take our individual photos, Erika read us a story called the Napping House. Our friends loved the story and giggled every time they heard that each character was sleeping on top of another. The next day, we read the same story and had each child act out what the characters were doing. The children shined on the stage. This opportunity inspired the educators to introduce an all time loved fairy tale; The Three Little Pigs. They immediately fell in love with the story and showed lots of excitement. They asked the teachers to read the story whenever there was a chance! After reading the story a number of times, the children began to recite the lines and even began to change their voices to sound like a big bad wolf or the three little pigs. When the educators suggested acting it out, all of the children agreed and shouted out whether they wanted to be one of the little pigs or the big bad wolf!
After we acted out the story a few times, we decided to design the three houses together. The children collaborated in selecting the shape of each house (circle, triangle, and square). Then they agreed to paint each house with certain colors (yellow for the straw house, brown for the stick house, and red for the brick house). Finally, we decorated each house with bunny hays, twigs, and brown construction paper cut-outs. With all of our three houses, we felt even more eager to act out the story as the three little pigs and the big bad wolf!
Our children have enjoyed our practices and we are ready to shine in front of our families. We hope all of our families are able to join us on Thursday, April 4th at 9:30am to witness this precious moment of our children performing!
