Over the past couple weeks students have been learning about Fairy Tales. You child has heard the fairy tale stories:
The Fisherman and His Wife
The Emperor's New Clothes
Beauty and the Beast
Below are some suggested activities for you to do at home to reinforce what your child is learning with the genre of fairy tales.
The Fisherman and His Wife
(A fisherman catches a flounder in the sea; the flounder tells the man he is actually an enchanted prince who has been turned into a flounder; the fisherman throws the flounder back; the fisherman's wife asks why he didn't first ask the flounder for a wish and send him back to ask for several wishes; finally, the wife asks for too many things and the fish leaves them with what they had at the beginning of the story.)
Ask your child what they remember, fill in any gaps in the plot, and ask your child if there is a lesson to be learned from this story.
(An emperor finds great pleasure in dressing in different outfits; a strange weaver and tailor arrive and tell him they can make magical clothes, clothes only clever people can see; the emperor believes their story and hires them; everyone lies and says they can see the clothes in order to appear clever; a child finally states the truth)
Ask your child what they remember, fill in any gaps in the plot, and ask your child if there is a lesson to be learned from this story.
Your child will learn the saying "better late than never" in relation to the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast." Ask your child how this saying relates to the story. (When Beauty decides to stay in the palace of the beast, she asks the beast to grant her one request: to say good-bye to her family. The beast grants her this request, but makes her promise to return before the full moon. Beauty doesn't return when promised, but does return to the palace just in time to save the beast's life.)
Talk with your child about other situations where one might use the saying "better late than never."
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