This week our Trillium and Huckleberry classes listened with a few chuckles and grins as rabbit tricked Coyote multiple times and discovered what may be the cause of coyotes howling at the moon. Through the use of this story, we filled in our interactive chart about the important elements that we find in all legends. One of those elements being that all legends use creative ways to explain how things came to be in nature. It's been a fun way to introduce so many different types of folk tales in this unit. Our students are becoming experts at determining which genre of folk tale they are reading.
Everyone loves a tall tale! Some of our Clarkia and Alder classes got to enjoy the wild adventures of Pecos Bill and Mike Fink this week. The exaggerations of these superhuman characters added lots of laughter and enjoyment to our reading. The students were able to pick out the bits of truth peppered throughout the stories and realized that these stories were set in a historical time period. They also discovered that often times the problem was exaggerated and that the solutions had to involve magic to solve such ridiculous scenarios. These books were a great way to end our folk tale unit as we will be moving on to a bit of poetry.
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