Story [Kindergarten]

The unit started with an adaptation of one of Aesop's fables  - The Bundle of Sticks -  and with analyzing at the sequence of the story. The kids listened to the story, in which instead of having three arguing brothers we had three brothers fighting and not sharing their toys. When their dad decided to teach them a lesson, he asked them to go to the forest and find two sticks [at that time the children go outside at the playground and search for two sticks with their own name]. When they find the sticks they have to bring them back with them to the classroom. Then, the children are asked to put one of their sticks down and see if they can break the other one in half. With the remaining whole sticks tied into a bundle the children experience for themselves how difficult it is to break the bundle of sticks.

Next, we move on to another one of the elements of a story, namely the main characters. We use familiar stories to illustrate the concept of "main characters" (good versus evil) and to investigate how the characters look like and feel, what they do, what their traits are (brave, scary, greedy, jealous, hard-working), and how they can change. The children listen to and experience the same story (in this case, The Little Red Riding Hood). This gives them security and allows them to enter more deeply and imaginatively into the content of the story.

Next: making puppets and acting out the most popular and emblematic part of the story:
Grandma, what big ears you have. All the better to hear you with.
Grandma, what big eyes you have. All the better to see you with.
Grandma, what big hands you have. All the better to hug you with.
Grandma, what big legs you have. All the better to run.
Grandma, what big teeth you have. All the better to eat you up.

Stories: The Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel (practical), Rapunzel, The Giving Tree

Practicing characters of a story in response to an audio story.

Next, setting
Next, problem

Stories that can be actually put in practice.