Little Red Hen Theatre

Oral language is the base for all our learning. One way we are developing our oral language skills in Waitī Room 8 this term is through retelling familiar stories. 

We have been focusing on the story of 'The Little Red Hen'. Listening to the story. Discussing the 'problem' in the story. Discussing what is fair. Is it fair that the Little Red Hen does all the work and then the other animals want to eat the bread?

We sequenced the story as a group. This helps all of us get the whole story clear in our heads. What happened first? Then what happened?

After this we discussed other things like - who are the characters? Where is the story set?

During this time we have read different versions of the story too. We have discussed 

what is the same , what is different.

Then one day we all wrote our own version of the story. It has been exciting to watch the learning that has taken place through the telling of this story. 

The last activity we undertook for this story was to act out the story as a class. The tamariki all were a character each and they retold the story to me, their audience. There was a lot of giggling and they acted out the story.

The Theatre has now been set up with finger puppet props and the show continues to play on in class! Come on in and be an audience! We would love to see you!