Our Day Today!
We did a really neat Inquiry Activity today that really required some Higher Level Thinking skills! We took the story of Cinderella and told it up to the point that Cinderella run out of the ball at the stroke of midnight. After that, we changed the end of the story!
Now that we have completed out Book Study of familiar Fairy Tales, we are starting to gain an understanding of how to look at the stories from another perspective. In order to really accomplish this, we are learning about "Cause and Effect." We introduced this subject today by reading a backwards Fairy Tale called The End. In this story, the Tale is told starting with the Happily Ever After and then goes back through the causes to the effects of why things happened the way they did. We worked together to create a T-Chart to match the causes with their effects after hearing the story.