2 of the books I chose to read this month for our exploration of
Russia (part of our Around the World in 12 Dishes Challenge) had
a definite specific theme to them - greedy, self centered
characters. The Lil Divas were quite appalled at some of the
behavior (which made my mama heart proud!). The Magic Gold Fish
- A Russian Folktale I remember hearing this story growing up
and it was fun to share it with the girls. I read it to them and
we discussed what happened in the story. The Lil Divas felt so
bad for the poor fisherman and how his wife treated him. They
thought she was very mean and selfish. I thought this was the
perfect kind of story to re-create so we set to work making
stick puppets and props to re-tell the story. The Oldest Diva
really got into this activity - isn't her mean Old Lady
hilarious! I love the face she put on her - it's very cross.
Then we got to work re-telling the story with our stick puppets.
I helped along the way if they got stuck remembering what
happened next but they did a great