Fairy tales unit

Are you reading fairy tales??? Last week, I shared with you how to make CUTE fire-breathing dragon heads ! Today, I'll be sharing a sim...

Happy ALMOST Friday, y'all! What's the weather like in your neck of the woods? I've seen so many people posting about snow days and crazy Arctic

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In this blog post: Download a set of decodable readers based on your favorite fairytales and folktales including The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of my favorite […]

Use these ideas and activities to teach preschool, kindergarten, & first grade kids to create fairy tale story maps with The Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and Jack and the Beanstalk. Graphic organizers, templates, anchor charts, & posters support teaching retelling, fiction story elements, talk4writing & text structures such as beginning, middle, and end. Printable worksheets help you integrate social studies & map skills.

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Looking for a new way to bring classic stories to life? Try these super fun (and super simple!) Fairy Tale STEM challenges! The free download includes 5 different ideas to explore math and engineering concepts with your K-5 kids.

This free fairy tale unit of study is a free unit of study you can add to your reading workshop.

Fairy Tales are a great way to work on reading and comprehension skills with your kindergarten students! I have created a bundle of resources for 12 popular fairy tale stories. Students will enjoy sequencing, retelling with vocabulary cards, and more! There are even emergent readers for them to practice reading skills on their own or in small groups. Teacher will enjoy using these easy to prep lessons, which can be used separately as needed, or as a whole unit.

Time to get a little dirty while learning about how plants grow! After reading books about parts of plants and how plants grow, we of course had to plant our own seeds to witness this first hand. First we added soil to our cups... ...then the kiddos planted two lima beans, two pinto beans, and some grass seeds in a clear plastic Solo cup. (I like to consolidate!) The clear cups allow the kids to see the roots as the plants grow! (Which they think is really cool!) We also watched this awesome…

First Grade Reading Fairy Tales Anchor Chart

Looking to make your reading lessons more engaging? Check out these 15 must-read fractured fairy tale books that will improve engagement in any reading lesson. Perfect for 3rd-5th grade classrooms, these unique twists on classic fairy tales add fun and fresh ideas to your reading curriculum.

Kindergarten blog for teachers in the classroom. Ideas for homeschooling as well. Free files to your with your students.

Writing letters to fairy tale characters is one of our favorite activities! It's a great way to integrate writing and character development! Read about how we explore fairy tales and literacy with letters, masks, readers theater and more.

I have to admit. I love the classroom transformations that we’ve done this year so far. When my students walk into the classroom, their eyes light up! We had so much fun learning about the elements of fairy tales and it made it even more fun with a fairy tale classroom transformation! Transform Your Room! […]

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Fairy Tale facts for our fairy tales unit!

Elements of a Fairy Tale