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Little Red Hen comes to Dobbins
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.When Kim Muff read a part of The Little Red Hen that involved the lazy cat, the students would act out that part of the story by laying on their hands.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.All of the students in Nick Henry's kindergarten class had to work together to make play dough during the visit from Kim Muff from the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm Jan. 10.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Kim Muff read The Little Red Hen to students in Nick Henry's kindergarten class at Dobbins Elementary School Jan. 10.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Kim Muff from the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm showed students in Nick Henry's kindergarten class how to waddle like a duck prior to reading The Little Red Hen Jan. 10.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.When she was done reading the story, Muff asked Nick Henry's kindergarten class to recall certain events in the story, which she would mark on her felt board using cloth characters.
By NATALIE SCOTT
On Jan. 10, Kim Muff from Mill Creek MetroParks Farm came to Elaine Fabrizi and Nick Henry’s kindergarten classes at Dobbins Elementary School to give a lesson.
“This is Mr. Henry’s first year doing this lesson,” said Fabrizi. “Mill Creek MetroParks Farm has been coming to kindergarten classrooms at Dobbins for about 20 years and the children always love it.”
To start off her lesson, Muff told the class that many people have written books about the Little Red Hen throughout the years. Some of the books are big and some are small, but the storyline always has the same message: that if you work hard and help out, you will be rewarded for your efforts and that if you are lazy, you will get nothing.
While Muff read the story, she asked the students to act out certain parts of the book, but they had to act it out silently and without moving from their seats. Students could waddle like a duck, lay on their hands like a sleeping cat, or pant like a dog whenever that animal was mentioned.
After the story, Muff asked the students questions about the tale they had just heard. She reenacted important events in the story using a felt board and cloth figures. Muff even brought in real wheat seeds and a small mill to show the students so they could better understand parts of the story.
To end the lesson on a positive note, the class was separated into different groups and each child in the group had a task. When each task was completed successfully, the groups used flower, salt, water, oil, and a package of Kool Aid to make their own play dough that the students took home.