Little Red

The week of January 17, students in second grade performed a reader's theater production of the folktale "Little Red Riding Hood".  The children were divided into groups of two or three students each and assigned parts...narrator, Little Red Riding Hood, mother, grandmother, the wolf or the woodsman.  We read our lines through once and then five lucky students were selected to act out the play with finger puppets and the puppet theater while the rest of the class read the lines from the play.  It was our first attempt at doing a finger puppet show in the library.  The area behind the puppet theater was a bit squishy even for five pint-sized, second grade puppeteers but they managed to put on a great performance despite the cramped quarters.  I look forward to having some of the second graders perform the play to our kindergarten students after a few more dress rehearsals.