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Music Music is an important part of
any Early Childhood program.
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The Three Little Pigs |
Three Pig Blues |
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For links to the
musical artists click here to go to the music
page.
Activities
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Paper Plate Pigs
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Materials:
1 regular size paper plate,
1 small paper plate, pink paint, 1 3 x 3 pink construction paper
square, 1 2 x 4 black construction paper rectangle, and 1 5 inch
long pipe cleaner, stapler.
This project is best done in two stages so the
paint can dry, if you don't have that kind of time substitute
pink crayons instead of the paint. First, have the
students paint their paper plates pink and let them dry.
Next, they trace the circle of the small paper plate with a
marker to create the snout. Now cut the 3 x 3 pink square
diagonally to create 2 pink ears and glue the ears to the head.
Glue the small head plate to the middle of the large paper
plate. Lastly, create the feet by cuting the black
rectangle in half hot-dog style. The final touch is
a pipe cleaner tail made by curling the pipe cleaner around the
student's finger. The teacher can staple the tail onto the
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Folded Pig House
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Materials:
red, yellow, or brown construction paper, crayons
Take a large sheet of the
colored paper and fold in half hamburger style. Cut the
top of the paper to resemble the roof of a house. Ask your
students to select a red house if they want to make a house of
bricks, yellow for straw, and brown for sticks. Have
students use their crayons to decorate the houses. Don't
forget to ask them to include the characters; the three pigs and
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Act out the story
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Materials:
Three Pig Masks from Enchanted Learning, props such as straw,
sticks, and a real brick, sentence strip, gray crayon, glue
stick, paper, scissors.
Print out and laminate the story masks from Enchanted Learning:
click here Select several students to be "characters"
in your play. The teacher can act as narrator as the
students act out the story. Provide students with the
props they will need to act out the story. To make
the wolf color a square of paper gray and cut into two
triangles. Using the glue stick, glue the two "ears" to
the sentence strip to make into a headband for the character of
the wolf.
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Compare and Contrast
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Materials:
Xerox copies of the front of several different Three Pigs
stories, glue stick, chart paper, markers.
Xerox the front cover of
several Three Little Pigs books. Shrink the copies so they will
all fit at the top of your chart paper. Glue the copies to
the top of the chart and use the markers to make the lines for a
graph. Show the students the actual books and have a
discussion comparing and contrasting the stories. Have the
students write their names under their favorite Three Pigs story
and review the results in large group. Post the chart on
the wall for future reference.
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Story Sequence
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Materials:
Copy of The Three Pigs Fairy Tale Sequence from Frank Schaffer,
construction paper cut hot dog style, crayons, scissors, glue
sticks.
Have students color the
pictures for the story sequence, cut, and glue in the correct
sequence on the construction paper. While I am not a big
fan of worksheets this activity can be good tool to measure how
well your students understand the sequence of the story, follow directions,
and retell a story. When students are finished I ask them
to re-tell the story to me. I usually put these in their
portfolios. |
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