Little Red Hen

I see I have fallen behind once again. Grrrr....one day I will get organized, I promise. Maybe next semester when I have a student teacher...

So this past week we focused on the Little Red Hen. I love this story,  mostly because I get to bake bread at the end of the unit :)

The main focus of this unit was the retelling of the story. I wanted the kiddos to learn the language in the story, "who will help?" "Not I!"

To kick off the unit, I put the pictures from the story in my large pockets (it so much more exciting to hide stuff in pockets than to just hand it to the kiddos! I can't tell you how much I use those simple pockets!!) Each kiddo pulled out a picture from the story and we brainstormed what it could be from. My story had a hen, a cat, a dog and a goose. We called it a duck though. Each of these picture had magnets attached to the back. I put the pictures on the side of my desk for the kiddos to retell the story. The kiddos had fun retelling the story to each other. I LOVED hearing the words from the story!

I found my printables from sparkelbox, the link can be found here.



Kizclub.com has some great pictures, the link can be found here. The pictures can be printed in either black or white. 

After reading through the story a few times, I had the kiddos act it out. Each kiddo was given a mask to pretend to be a character from the story. I was the storyteller and the kiddos just needed to say the famous lines! They had such fun. The mask were printed from sparklebox at the above link.  I also gave each kiddo a mask to make and take home with the hopes of each kiddo acting out the story at home!

Then everyone made a red hen puppet, as you can see, not all the hens were red!

Of course, last but not least was baking bread! This is my favorite day. I love bread, mmmm...with lots of butter! I have a no yeast, no knead recipe that works pretty well with the kiddos. We did knead the dough a bit, just because the little red hen did! The link to the recipe can be found here. I will say, we added 1 tsp. of salt to the recipe and it made a big difference. It needs to bake for 40 mins so plan accordingly.

Mmmmm...everyone ate it too!! Love the smell of bread baking.