Teaching Tuesday

This week my daughter (kindergarten) is doing a unit on Hansel and Gretel. Each day we are reading a different version of the book and doing a fun activity. Yesterday we made peppermint bark and dipped pretzels. Yum!

She loved breaking the peppermint bark into pieces!

Today she will be doing a little math and making a graph. I made a simple chart in Word and bought a box of skittles. She is going to count how many of each color there is and graph it. (I counted them first so I made sure to have enough room on the graph.)

Tomorrow we will finish with the Witch's version of the story and the activity will be making a gingerbread house! (I cheated and bought a kit for that)

I will post a picture of it when it is finished.

Here are the books we are using. I got them all at our local library. There are lots of versions out there.

Hansel and Gretel by the Grimm Brothers

We Both Read Hansel & Gretel: Adapted by Sindy McKay

there is a parent page and then a simple child's page so the child can read

every other page.

The Witch's Story by Sheila Black: Tell's the witch's version of the story. It's cute and makes the witch a little less scary.

If you turn this book upside down and over there is the tale of Hansel and

Gretel as told by Sheila Black. So this is neat...two books in one.