Three Little Kittens

Our nursery rhyme for this week was The Three Little Kittens and the kids absolutely loved acting it out. I have the book on tape and the narrator sings it to a tune and music - it's really cute.

When I taught 2nd grade one of my favorite things to do was to teach my class various reader's theaters. We'd practice them all week and then on that Friday we would go perform the plays for Mrs. Faustino's class (pre-k am/pm). It was always a blast and I thought it really taught the 2nd graders tons of important skills (public speaking, fluency, inflection, confidence, how to entertain, etc). So, it is an amazing feeling to know that I can also do the same thing with a younger class!
And what an excellent job they all did - especially for their first time performing (and they must had been so nervous because they were all just in pre-k last year)! It was too cute!




Everyone got a chance to act it out in class. Later, names were drawn to see who got chosen for the different roles (book holder aka "teacher", mom, dad, 3 kittens and the singers/narrators).

Performing for Mrs. Faustino's AM Pre-K class.

Kristy: "teacher"

Evan: dad

Zoish: mom

Trey: kitten

Sarah: kitten

Anthony: kitten

Trey got to perform for his little sister's class and he did an excellent job hamming it up :)

PM Performance

Alexa: teacher

Garrett: dad

Mia: mom

Bailey: kitten

CJ: kitten

Alysha: kitten

We used props like magnifying glasses to look for our mittens, mittens, a hamburger bun on a plate (our pie), parent clothes and balls of yarn to play with.