Title:  Little Red Riding Hood

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Subjects: Language Arts, Math, and Science

Learner Outcomes:

• The students will be able to identify several fairy-tale/folktale characteristics found through the use of literature and discussions.
• The students will be able to retell the story Little Red Riding Hood in their own words including the characters, setting, and plot.
• The students will be able to use all their senses to identify smells, tastes, hearing, and seeing of different objects and activities.
• The students will be able to estimate by using educated guesses to predict how many cookies are in the container.
• The students will graph their coats according to whether they have a hood attached to it or not.
• The students will be the illustrators in making a class book of Little Red Riding Hood.

Duration of Lesson:  

        Language Arts activities approximately 90 minutes
        Math activities approximately 45 minutes
        Science activities approximately 60 minutes
                             
Materials:
Little Red Riding Hood, cookies, baby food jars, graph, coat with hood graphic, coat without hood graphic, divided story parts for students to illustrate, crayons, markers, cotton balls, smelling lotions or other scents, carrots, apples, goldfish crackers, licorice, Cheerios,

Technology Tools:
Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word

Teacher Notes:

• The day before teaching the lesson have students to wear something that is red and designate this as Red Day.
• Make sure each child has a signed copy of the acceptable use policy in their folder before using the internet.
• Bookmark the sites for the students before the lesson begins. 

Procedures:
Language Arts:

1. Begin by asking students if they have ever heard a story start like "Once upon a time....." or "Long, long, ago....." Have them to share aloud with the group the stories they can recall and make a list of these for the children to see.  Continue the discussion by asking if there were good and bad characters in the book.  Did it end with "They lived happily ever after!"? Was there some type of magic in the story? Add on to their list to name some familiar ones (Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc.)  Then tell the students that these stories are known as Fairy Tales.
2. Discuss with students that a Fairy Tale is a story that has been told by people long ago.  They did not have books to write them down in so they shared them aloud with each other.  Therefore, sometimes they change the story or create a different version.  
3. Show the students the front cover of the book Little Red Riding Hood.  Have students to predict what the story will be about.
4. Discuss with the students the following words before reading the story:  hood, nightgown, nightcap, grandmother, wolf, cottage, and forest.
5. Read the story of Little Red Riding Hood aloud to them.
6. After students have heard the story have them to recall the characters, setting, and plot of the story.
7. Divide the story into parts by writing the story line across the bottom and have one student or a group of students work together to illustrate it.  
8. Sequence the pages and bind it with yarn to make a class book for the students to enjoy reading over again.

Math:

1. Fill a basket or jar with a box of vanilla wafers or other kind of cookie and have the students to estimate the number of cookies.  
2. Write their responses on the board or write them on chart paper.
3. Count the cookies as a large group.
4. See who estimated the closest to the exact amount.
5. Next, make a class graph with the heading "Coats With Hoods" and "Coats Without Hoods" 
6. Have students to write their name on the coat with hood or coat without a hood and place it on the graph under the correct heading.
7. Discuss with the students which one had the most or which one had the least.

Science:

1. Play a game "What Big Eyes" by having one child spot something in the room and allow the other students to guess what it is.  The person who guesses then will take their turn to locate an object in the room for the other students to guess.
2. Play "What Big Ears" by having students to guess what the following sounds are using Microsoft Powerpoint.
3. Play "What Big Teeth" by having children to close their eyes and see if they can identify what the following foods are by tasting them:  carrots, apples, cheerios, licorice, and goldfish crackers or any other food items.
4. Play "What a Big Nose" by soaking cotton balls with different scented lotions, colognes, or food extracts.  For each scent have two jars with the same scent.  Have the students to open the baby food jars and sniff the scents matching together the two jars which smell the same.

Modifications:
For all special education students follow the individualized education plan throughout the lesson.

Enrichment Activities:

• Read different versions of Little Red Riding Hood and make a Venn Diagram to show how they are alike and different.
• On Red Day make a class book having students to draw things that are red.  Bind it together and add to the reading center for students to read over and over again.
• Make cookies or buy the refrigerated dough and bake them.  Place them in a basket and use as a snack as students share their act of kindness with the principal, secretary, cooks, and custodians.
• To help students with color recognition use the Colors Powerpoint Presentation.
  
• Review what Little Red Riding Hood's mother warned her about before she left the house.  Ask students to share what their parents have taught them about talking to strangers.  Have students to role play refusing to talk to strangers, refusing to get in a car with a stranger, refusing to take candy from a stranger, and refusing to tell a stranger where they live, or their name.

State Standards:
Language Arts:
RLA.K.1.7, RLA.K.1.8, RLA.K.1.9, RLA.K.10, RLA.K.1.12, RLA.K.2.2, RLA.K.2.3, RLA.K.3.1

Mathematics:  
MA.K.1.6, MA.K.2.1, MA.K.4.1

Science:
SC.K.2.2, SC.K.4.1, SC.K.4.6

National Standard
Language Arts:
6. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
8. Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Mathematics:
1.  Understands that observations about objects or events can be organized and displayed in simple graphs

Science:
8. Understands the structure and properties of matter

References:
Little Red Riding Hood, Animal Sound Effects

Jennifer Smith
J.E. Robins Elementary

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