goldilocks and the three magic words - Podar Jumbo Kids Plus

Why did we want to change the story ofGoldilocks and The Three Bears?Goldilocks goes to the house of the bears, eats withoutpermission, messes their house and then runs away. Thediscussion starter on this story was, how did the bears feelwhen they came back to their house and found it in amess? And we were surprised and happy, that most kidsunderstood that the bears felt upset and Baby Bear musthave cried and cried and Goldilocks should not have beenso naughty. So, our next question to them was, so how dowe change the story so that Goldilocks is happy and soare the bears? Ideas were bounced and rejected, giggledand sometimes looked puzzled, but in the end everyoneagreed that the bears can maybe teach Goldilocks somemanners. And so emerged, ‘GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3MAGIC WORDS’.So let kids join in the journey of Goldilocks, as she learnsall about manners and being polite with the three magicwords- ‘Thank you’, ‘Sorry’ and ‘Please’.Learn by imitation, not prompting! And sadly prompting ismost often used while teaching kids to be polite. Mothersusually nag the child to 'say sorry', 'say thank you' etc. butchildren will learn best and faster if such values aremodeled to them, instead of being told what to do. Thisstory makes the kids understand in an interesting mannerthat even their favourite story book character now haslearnt to say the magic words.Level 3Rework‘Change and Creativity’to CreateGoldilocks andThree MagicWordsNotice the ‘Documentation’ in the drawings.You will notice that all the children’sdrawings have comments written by theteacher. This is called ‘documentation’; apractice adopted by us from Reggio schoolswhere a teacher asks the child about thedrawings and then writes down the pointsthat were mentioned by the child.