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Toads and Diamonds Lesson Plans

  By hadensites character education, fairy tales

“Toads and Diamonds” is another story from Charles Perrault. Picture books of the story are hard to find, though DK’s A First Book of Fairy Tales includes it. Read the story aloud and then have students retell the tale. For the class retelling, we like to divide the story into… Continue reading

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Twelve Dancing Princesses Lesson Plans

  By hadensites critical thinking, fairy tales
12 Dancing Princesses

“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is a story collected by the Brothers Grimm. Andrew Lang also collected a French version of this story in his Red Fairy Book, and you can read it here. Marianna Mayer has done a beautiful picture book of The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Rachel Isadora has… Continue reading

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The Princess on the Glass Hill Lesson Plans

  By hadensites character education, critical thinking, fairy tales, science

“The Princess on the Glass Hill“ is one of the more obscure fairy tales, but the image of the suitors trying to get up the glass hill to the princess is familiar to most of us. Since our state frameworks mandate the use of of folk and fairy tales up… Continue reading

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The Elves and the Shoemaker

  By hadensites economics, fairy tales

The Elves and the Shoemaker is a tale from the Brothers Grimm. In it, a poor shoemaker has only enough leather for one pair of shoes. He cuts the shoes out and leaves them ready to make in the morning. In the morning when he gets up, he finds (usually) two… Continue reading

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The Emperor’s Cool Clothes, by Lee Harper

  By hadensites books, character education, fairy tales, social studies

The Emperor’s Cool Clothes is a cool new take on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes.  In it, a penguin who has always wanted to be cool and his counselors, who are very proud of how cool they are, are taken in by a couple of tricksters. The idea… Continue reading

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Los Tres Cabritos, by Eric Kimmel

  By RebeccaHaden books, fairy tales, music
los tres cabritos

Los tres cabritos is Eric Kimmel’s Tex-Mex take on the traditional story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. In this story, Chupacabra, the “goat sucker,” a monster traditionally found in Puerto Rico but also part of folklore in other Hispanic communities, lives under the bridge across the Rio Grande which… Continue reading

The Emperor’s Nightingale Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden fairy tales, music, social studies, technology, visual arts
The Emporer's Nightingale

“The Emperor’s Nightingale” is a story by Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, set in China. In the story, the Emperor of China discovers a nightingale, a bird which sings so beautifully that its song restores the ailing Emperor’s health.  The Emperor of Japan sends a mechanical singing bird to… Continue reading

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Middle Ages Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden fairy tales, social studies, technology, visual arts
medieval ruins at Ninfa

  Get medieval for inspiring lessons on social studies, science, and art. The Middle Ages lasted from the sack of Rome in 400 AD to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century, so there’s plenty to work with. Let us share our favorite lesson plans for working on… Continue reading

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The Teeny, Tiny Woman

  By JosephaHaden fairy tales

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden books, fairy tales
Legend of Sleepy Hollow lesson plans

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a fun ghost story by early American writer Washington Irving. Read the whole story online at Project Gutenberg. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad includes Disney’s terrific cartoon version, voiced by Bing Crosby. It makes a great choice for Hallowe’en party entertainment, or… Continue reading

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