Ally’s class (all the kindergartens) are doing a big unit on Oceans and water. Friday Feb 8 is a showcase for parents to come and see what the students have been learning and doing.
Friday, Feb 1 I picked Ally up at school as usual and her teacher told me about some special homework Ally had. Suring choice time that day Ally was working with puppets (some parent donated some amazing sea animal puppets) and Ally had an idea that a puppet show for the showcase would be fun. Apparently the other student in puppets at the time was not so thrilled about the idea. But Ally was, and her homework was to write a story for 6 puppets (Ally said 6, two for each hand for her and 2 friends).
Seems ambitious to me. But Ally was game and pretty excited about it. So on Saturday she worked on it.
That is part one of the story. Ally got tired and stopped, but weere excited for part 2!
On Sunday she diligently finished the story:
She was so excited to show us. We sat down and read it together. There was only one word we could not understand – wesek means was stuck. As soon as we got it all understood Becky wrote it all down in “grown up words” so we would all remember and so Ally’s teacher would get it too, in case Ally forgot.
I spoke with Ally’s teacher on Monday and he said they used her story to create a script and he’s planning on video taping the puppet show and then playing the video on a loop during the Open House.
Ally is pretty excited about it, and she was super proud of how long her story was, and that we could “almost read the whole thing”.
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