3 Little Pigs Lesson Plan Activity?

Question

I'm student teaching in a preschool classroom and will be teaching traditional tales next week. One day will be The 3 Little Pigs and I'm stuck. I can't think of a cute hands-on independent activity that will involve every child. I have 18 kids and 15 minutes to introduce the lesson, read the story, and do the activity..any help will be GREATLY appreciated.

P.S. I already thought about having them act out the story..but we won't have enough time to give everyone a turn in the allowed time, so i'll put props in the dramatic play center for them to do that during center time.

Answer 1

You can let 15 students be one of the 3 little pigs and 3 students be wolfs so for each roup of 5 little pigs there is one wolf. Now after you organize that, then have 3 lines formed(since there are 3 groups) the 1st little pig of each line makes a building out of legos that is the most durable and the wolfs has to knock it down before the little pig reaches the other side of the room but if the wolf fails then the wolf becomes a little pig and the little pig who won gets to be the wolf.(this applies form all 3 groups) Ok

Answer 2

With my preschool class I would practice a day before on how fast I can read and prepare my activities. You divide your 18 preschoolers into 3 different houses. This would be 6 children each in a group in the straw, brick and last house. You would have the children in the straw group stand with straw or make believe straw from construction paper while you read I will huff and puff and blow your house down than you would have the children throw the straw up in the air as if it was being blown up and have the other groups blowing with you while blowing the house down. You would do the same for the other 2 houses. It will take less than 15 minutes. You could make Pigs in a blanket which you could bring to class and have them eat it. Your preschoolers could make face masks of the wolf and they can be the wolf while you're reading the story. They can stand up and be the wolf while blowing down the 3 houses.

Answer 3

How about an art project?  Draw 3 houses on a piece of paper (8 1/2 by 14).  Have them glue pieces of straw (or yellow yarn) to one, skinny little pretzel sticks to another, and red construnction paper cut into rectangle bricks onto the third.

Another idea:

Have the children sit around you in a circle.  Talk about the story.  Have your materials ready (straw from a craft store, pretzel sticks and some blocks).  Have several children come into the center of the circle and try to build a house with the straw.  Ask them if they can blow it down and if they think it will be strong enough.  Repeat with a 2nd and 3rd group of children for the pretzels and blocks.  All will be participating by both hands on and observation.

Answer 4

I LOVE the idea of the three houses covering one with yellow yarn, pretzel sticks and red construction paper bricks - that's ingenious!  Or you could make a pig puppet or a wolf puppet out of brown paper sacks.  But I think I'd really go with the three houses idea - that will keep them all busy.  when our children finish a project, they are allowed to put it on the red table to dry and find a book to look at while they wait for their friends. that way, you don't have to worry about faster workers than others.  good luck - sounds like fun!

Answer 5

well why don't you separate them making 3 wolf and the rest 12 separate them into four per house, meaning the husband, wife and two kids in each.

Answer 6

Make a class book called The Fourth Pig and let them draw a picture of what they would make their house out of. Then they could write or dictate a sentence or two about their house.

You could still act it out by having a few children in each part. Young children do better acting in a group then individually anyway.

You could also act it out using a flannel board and let the whole class say the lines.