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Jack and theBeanstalk
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Contents of Full Unit & Brief Descriptions
Page 9: How to Make a Feltboard
Page 10-31: Puppets and Props, color and black and white, picturesfrom the story to cut out and use as story retelling props for students,bulletin board pieces, a puppet craft for students, and/or storytelling props.Story retelling is a great way to check a student’s comprehension andsummarization abilities. The puppets and props also provide a greatopportunity for students to be creative and make their own versions of thestory.
Focus on Reading & Comprehension ~ Pre-Reading, Reading, & PostReading - pages 32-42
Page 32: Pre-Reading Vocabulary Words for the retelling of Jack and theBeanstalk included in this unit, definitions included.
Page 33-36: Jack and the Beanstalk, an original retelling.
Page 37-39: Post Reading Comprehension Questions to be used eitherorally (pg 37) or assigned as written work (pg 38-39), sample answersincluded on page 37. For a shorter written assignment only hand out onepage of questions.
Page 40-42: Post Reading Critical Thinking and Personal ConnectionQuestions to be either used orally (pg 40) or assigned as written work (pg41-42), sample answers included. For a shorter written assignment onlyhand out one page of questions.
Focus on Main Events ~ Sequencing the Story - pages 43-51
Page 43-45: Sentence Strips for Story Sequencing, the student oryourself can cut out the strips to sequence the events of the story byputting the strips in the correct order. Answers included.
Page 46-47: Beginning, Middle, End Story Mapping worksheet, you canhave the students either write or draw about the story parts, possibleanswers included.
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Page 48-49: First, Next, Then, Last, the student is to write the order ofthe events in the story. You can brainstorm as a class about the storyevents before assigning the worksheet if you think the students may needextra help. Possible answers included.
Page 50-51: Draw and Summarize, the student is to draw a picture fromthe story and write a brief summary. Example summary included.
Focus on Literacy ~ Word Family -een & -ean Words pages 52-58
Page 52-54: Rhyming Words -een & -ean Sort Activity
Page 55-56: Word Wall -een and -ean Words
Page 57-58: See, Trace, Build, word family -een and -ean words, thestudent is to look at each word, trace it, then build the word from the cutout letters.
Focus on Crafts ~ 2 crafts pages 59-65
Page 59-62: Castle in the Sky Craft, using templates, construction paper,and cotton balls students make a castle in the sky. Instructions for analternative craft included.
Page 63-65: Goose and the Golden Eggs Craft, using the includedtemplate, paint, a traced hand, and thumbprints, students create a goosethat lays golden eggs.
Focus on Fun ~ Games pages 66-76
Page 66-70: Story Game Cards, instructions for “Old Giant”, played like“Old Maid” and memory match.
Page 71: Shapes Poster, can be used to reinforce shape words with thefollowing file folder game.
Page 72-76: Build a Castle File Folder Game, students use shapes andcastle cards to build four castles from shapes.
Focus on Math pages 77-95
Page 77: Goose Size Sequencing Pictures
Page 78-84: Golden Egg or Magic Bean Addition, students will practiceaddition using the included counters, dried beans, or jelly beans, a die, andaddition mat. Also includes a recording sheet and word problem worksheetsfor older students.
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Page 85-95: Beanstalk Measuring, a measuring file folder activity-measuring to the nearest 1” and/or 1/2”. Includes recording sheets andmeasuring practice worksheets for older students. Color and black & white.
Focus on Science ~ Investigating Seeds and Plants pages 96-101
Page 96-104: Investigating Seeds and Plants, book suggestions, a WhatPlants Need cut & paste sticker book (color and black & white), two seedinvestigation experiments, and a My Sprout Record Book for older students.
Focus on Penmanship and Grammar ~ Copy and Learn pages 102-103
Page 105-106: Copywork, the student is to copy the example sentencesfor practice with handwriting and grammar.
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Fairy Tale Fun ~ Jack and the BeanstalkFree Sample
This pdf contains a free sample of Fairy Tale Fun: Jack and the Beanstalk.Contents are a retelling of the story and black and white puppets. Clickhere to preview a full sample of the unit available for sale at Currclick.
Children love fairy tales! Time tested and full of educational value; fairytales are also fun and memorable. Fairy Tale Fun Units are two weekunits created for PreK 4/5, Kindergarten, and 1st grade students.
The units are full of hands-on fairy tale fun, literacy activities, and cross-curricular learning. Included in each unit are suggested plans for use witheach grade, puppets and props, an original retelling, crafts, literacyactivities, file folder games, copywork, Math and Science connectionactivities, and more.
Story retelling is at the center of the units. Retelling helps develop skillsneeded for summarization in higher grades. With prompting andguidance, children in Pre-K 4/5, Kindergarten, and 1st grade can identifycharacters, setting, and major events in a story through retelling.
Story retelling allows children to actively participate in a story,increasing language development, comprehension, and interest inliterature.
Most color pages have black & white versions, so you can choose to keepprinting costs low.
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Suggestions for Puppets and Retelling
Story retelling is a wonderful addition to a young child’s education and play. Storyretelling allows children to actively participate in the story, increasing languagedevelopment, comprehension, and interest in literature. Retelling builds skills neededfor summarization in higher grades.
As much, or as little cost and effort can be put into the puppets as desired. Mostchildren will enjoy the play whether the puppets are printed on the lowest ink settingsin black and white to be used for paper retelling on a tabletop or clear area of floor, orprinted on cardstock, colored, and laminated to be used with a purchased or homemadefeltboard.
A younger child will enjoy you playing the story with them and may need promptingand guidance to include the key events from the story. A child as young as four can,with prompting and guidance, identify key details, characters, setting, and major eventsthrough retelling. An older child may want to play the entire story by his or her self.Ideally a child will be given time after retelling to explore the story further through playwith the puppets. Many children will enjoy rearranging the elements of the story orcreating their own versions.
Paper Retelling
For paper retelling, print the black and white puppets and props on copy paper.Optionally, a child who enjoys coloring can color the puppets and/or props while you arereading the story. The puppets are simply cut out and used for retelling the story. Anybare surface could be used, a tabletop or clear area of floor is fine.
Feltboard Retelling
To make puppets for a feltboard, print the pages on cardstock, color, cut out, andlaminate. Cut around the puppet, leaving about 1/8”-1/4” of laminate. For smalleritems and accessories you may want to leave an extra 1/4” of laminate so that you canoptimally position the velcro. The hook side of a sticky velcro dot can be adhered to theback of the puppets, or a small cut piece of the hook side of a velcro strip can beadhered with fabric glue. There are instructions for making your own feltbaord on thenext page. if you don’t own one or prefer making to buying. For a smaller feltboard,most printers have the ability to scale down the size of pictures or the option to printtwo pages on one. You can scale down the size of the puppets to fit the size of yourfeltboard. Puppets and props can be stored in a gallon sized bag and used again andagain.
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Cut away asquare of feltfrom each corner
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How to Make Your Own FeltboardWhat you need:
� a single piece of cardboard, preferably 3’ x 2 1/2’ or 4’ x 2 1/2’
� a single cut of felt, 3 1/2’ x 4’ or 3 1/2’ x 5’
� spray adhesive
� fabric glue
� a yardstick
� scissors
First gather your supplies and cut the cardboard and felt to the correct size. Use the picture belowand measurements above as your guide. Cut out a small square of fabric from each corner as thepicture shows. This will help the fabric fold over easily on the back of the cardboard. Pick a wellventilated area to use the spray adhesive. I made mine outside. Position the fabric on the cardboard.Lift the fabric up from one side and working quickly, but carefully, spray the underside of the fabricand press it onto the cardboard, bit by bit. Make sure the fabric is laying smoothly. If you havesomeone to help you with this part, recruit them! The yardstick can be helpful in smoothing down thefelt.
Turn the cardboard and adhered fabric over. Fold each 6” flap of fabric over the cardboard, one at atime, and use the fabric glue to adhere them. Now you have a nice feltboard to use with your kids!
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Jack and the Beanstalk ~ retold by Tate Jones
Once upon a time, long ago and far away, lived a widow and her only son,Jack. They were very poor, with little to eat at the best of times. The summerhad been dry and hot; the garden behind their cottage had wilted and died.
Jack’s mother said to him one morning, “Jack, I am weak with hunger.You must take the cow to market and trade her for food.”
Jack was concerned for his mother and wanted to help. He took the cowand set out on the dirt road. Heat enveloped Jack, clouds of dirt hung abouthis ankles. When he had trudged half way to market he saw a man besidethe road, leaning casually against the trunk of a tree, flipping something largeup from his hand and catching it, again and again. Jack was very curious, sohe stopped to ask the man, “What is it you’ve got there?”
“This?” The man smiled and cradled the object in his open hand. “Why,only a magic bean.”
“Magic? Really?” Jack pulled the cow towards the shade of the tree, sothat he could get a closer look.
“Are you taking the cow to market, by chance? I’m a trader. You needn’twalk any further. I’d be willing to trade the cow for the magic bean,” said theman, holding his hand out for Jack to better see the bean.
It was the biggest bean Jack had ever seen. It was glossy and dark, andlet off a barely perceivable glow. Surely it must be magic, as Jack had neverseen a bean like it in all his life.
Jack happily traded the cow for the bean. As he headed back home, hewhistled and flipped the bean up in the air, catching it again and again.
His mother met him at the door, her face eager. Jack smiled broadly andspread open his hand to show her the bean. In his excitement he had forgottenhis hunger. He rambled on about the heat of the walk, the trader he met, andthe magic bean. His mother’s face fell in disappointment and she began tocry.
Her sobs reminded Jack of his poor mother’s weakness. He helped her toher bedroom and made her comfortable in bed. Jack felt sorry for trading hismother’s only cow for a single bean. He hadn’t even asked the trader whatmagic the bean could perform!
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Jack left his mother in her bed and took the bean out to their garden. Hetook up a stick and dug a good sized hole in the dirt, having decided to sowthe bean in the earth. As he dug, the day faded into night. He placed the beanin the hole and gently covered it with loose dirt, hoping with all his heart thebean would grow large overnight and provide food for his mother.
The next day Jack’s heart was still full of hope, and he rushed out to thegarden as soon as he awoke. To his amazement a beanstalk had indeed grownand stretched further into the sky than he could even see. It was thick andsturdy, and Jack thought to climb it to see how high it reached.
Jack climbed and climbed and climbed. He climbed so high he reached theclouds and could no longer see. He swallowed his fear, wanting to be brave,and continued climbing, slowly, by feel. The cloud grew thinner until the airwas once again clear.
Jack shielded his eyes from the sun with his hand and gazed around him.Against the bright, blue sky was the stark silhouette of a castle, surroundedby beautiful, flower dotted meadows. Deep, dark woods bordered themeadows on all sides. He spied a woman with dark hair, dressed all in green,coming from the woods to greet him and climbed down from the beanstalkonto the cliff side.
Jack waved to the woman and said, “If you please, is this your castle?”
“No Jack, it is yours,” replied the woman. Jack’s head reeled with questions.The woman put up her hand. “Listen and I will tell you. Once a kind, braveknight lived in this castle with his wife and only son. He was beloved by theFair Folk of the woods, and we bestowed on him many wondrous gifts; agoose that lays golden eggs, a sack of coins that never empties, and a harpthat plays beautiful music all on its own. A dreadful giant heard rumors of thegifts and wanted them for himself. One stormy night, as the knight slept, thegiant came and killed him, taking the castle and the gifts for himself.
“Lucky for the wife and infant son, they had been away from the castle,visiting a friend. They had stayed overnight due to the striking lightning andpounding rain and thunder. A servant escaped from the castle and ran throughthe night to reach her and warn her of the giant. The knight’s wife was yourmother, Jack, and she knew she mustn’t return to the castle with her infantson. Instead she took up residence in a cottage, and toiled to feed you fromthe earth all these years. You are a babe no longer. I put the trader with themagic bean in your path so you might climb to find the truth. It is time foryou to be brave like your father and rid the castle, and this land, of that awfulgiant. Win back what is rightfully yours.”
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Jack stood tall and proud, assuring the lady, “I will be brave like my fatherand rid the land of the giant.”
The woman nodded solemnly and disappeared back into the woods.
Jack snuck into the castle, listening and looking around. The giant stoodat a table, counting coins from a sack. Jack hid himself in a kitchen cupboard.
The giant lifted his head and sniffed the air, bellowing, “Fe fi fo fum, Ismell the blood of an Englishman.” His feet pounded on the floor as hestomped around, trying to find the source of the smell. Lucky for Jack he hadhidden in the kitchen, near a pot of boiling water and meat, and the giantdecided the smell must have been the pot of meat after all.
The giant left the castle and Jack slipped from his hiding place, rushed tothe table, and grabbed up the sack of coins. He ran out of the castle and racedto the beanstalk. Struggling mightily with the heavy sack, Jack climbed downthe beanstalk.
He showed his mother the sack of coins and they rejoiced that they neednever go hungry again. Jack’s mother didn’t want him to climb the beanstalkagain, but Jack was determined to go back to the castle.
The next morning Jack climbed up and up and up the beanstalk to get tothe castle in the sky. He snuck inside and hid in the kitchen cupboard asbefore. The giant stood at the table, singing boisterously to a goose standingon the tabletop. As he sang he rolled a golden egg back and forth along hisknuckles.
He lifted his head and sniffed the air. “Fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of anEnglishman.” His feet pounded on the floor as he stomped around looking forthe source of the smell. Not finding anything, the giant decided it must haveonly been the meat cooking in the pot for his dinner and he left the castle.
Jack left the cupboard and gently took the goose under his arm, talkingcalmly to her about the brave, kind knight who used to be her owner.
He ran out of the castle, with the goose, and raced to the beanstalk. Hestruggled to climb down swiftly, holding the goose. He talked calmly to thegoose as he went.
Jack showed his mother the goose, and while she was happy, she wasalso worried Jack would go to the castle again. She fretted he might not beso lucky the next time and the giant would find him and eat him.
The next morning Jack climbed the sturdy beanstalk high into the sky. He
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snuck into the castle and hid himself in the kitchen cupboard. The giant stoodat the table, listening to the solemn music of the magic harp.
The giant lifted his head and sniffed the air. “Fe fi fo fum, I smell the bloodof an Englishman,” roared the giant angrily. He stomped around looking forthe source of the smell. He searched longer than the days before, mumblingloudly to himself, upsetting furniture and dishes as he looked. In all the ruckusthe harp’s music subsided.
Jack sweated in his hiding place, fearing he’d be found. However, likebefore, the giant decided the smell must have been the meat cooking in thepot and left the castle.
Cautiously, Jack opened the cupboard door and peeked out. He wasnervous from the giant looking so long and knew the giant must be aware ofthe missing money sack and goose. He tiptoed over to the table and pickedup the harp.
To his surprise the harp started playing shrill, screeching music. He realizedhe must have startled the harp, picking it up without warning. He had thoughtto calm the goose with talk, but it never crossed his mind to talk to the harp.Jack knew the giant couldn’t have gotten far from the castle. Afraid thealarming sounds from the harp would bring the giant back, Jack rushed outof the castle and raced toward the beanstalk.
To Jack’s dismay the giant’s thundering steps weren’t far behind him. Thegiant had heard the harp and he was chasing after Jack! Jack clambered downthe stalk, faster than ever. When he reached the bottom he yelled to hismother, “Mother, mother, the ax, bring me the ax!”
His mother ran to him, ax in hand. Jack set aside the harp. The giant wasrapidly descending the beanstalk. With one mighty swing of the ax, Jack cutclean through the stalk. The cut stalk dropped quickly to the earth, under theweight of the clinging giant. The fall was rapid and hard, the earth trembledwith the impact and the giant lay still and broken on the ground.
Jack and his mother hugged and rejoiced, happy they could now reclaimthe castle and live the rest of their days as friends to the Fair Folk once again.©
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