- Who Sank the Boat? (book)
- paper
- pencils
- scissors
- crayons
- glue
- tape
- plastic straws
- boat
- float
- sink
MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.2: With prompting and support, retell a sequence of events from a story read aloud.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Expressive Language: Engages in storytelling.
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Retells stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Puppet Talk
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Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Trace the five animals (walking on the second page of the book). Enlarge the figures so it will be easier to cut the shapes. Give each child a set of the pictures to cut, or precut them for younger children.
Tell children they are going to create puppets to use to retell the story of the characters in Who Sank the Boat? Help children create stick puppets of the characters in Who Sank the Boat?:
- Give each child a set of the pictures to cut, or precut them for younger children.
- Have children color the characters.
- Help children tape a straw to the back of each character to make a stick puppet.
- Suggest that children draw and cut out a boat as well.
- Encourage children to use their stick puppets to retell the story in the Library Center or the Play and Pretend Center. Encourage children to talk about how the boat floats then how it sinks.
- Encourage children to take the puppets home and retell the story to their families.
Adaptation: Groups with an age range may wish to pair older and younger children to work together so that older children can “guide” younger ones in the retelling.