RIC-20935 Early years Fairytales - Billy goats

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Cross-curricular activities Science • Set up a sensory tub for the children to use their senses to identify aspects of the story. Fill a plastic tub with soil, commercially-grown turf, Easter grass, dry grass, goat’s wool and plastic toy goats. • Draw a large picture of a goat and display it on a board. Add labels of body parts such as ears, mouth, nose, head, beard, legs, tail, horns and hooves. Give individual children cards with names to match to the labels. For more capable children, remove the labels to enable them to use initial letter cues to match the cards to the parts of the goat. • Remind the children that the three billy goats Gruff didn’t want to eat just any grass but wanted the greenest, freshest grass that they thought was growing on the other side of the bridge. Discuss the fact that goats are quite fussy eaters and they won’t, as some people believe, eat anything they find. Draw or cut out pictures, or make a list, of the food goats eat. • Grow grass seeds in a clear container so children can observe the seeds germinating and the roots and green shoots developing. Place paper towel around the inside of the container and put some seeds between the paper and the container. Fill the container with soil and water regularly to keep the paper towel moist. At the same time, some seeds could be planted in a soil-filled container and watered regularly. Having the seeds in the container will enable the children to understand what has been happening as the seeds germinate in the soil. • Pose the question ‘Would you like to have a goat as a pet?’ Ask the children to each give a reason for their answers. Tally the amount of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ responses. • Discuss similarities and differences between goats and cattle. Use the information to complete a ‘same and different’ graphic organiser. This could be done using simple pictorial representations and words. Same • Have horns Goats and cows Different • Are different sizes • Discuss animals that can swim and those that can’t, then explain that goats are good swimmers. Introduce the concept that some objects float in water but others don’t. Prepare a tub of water and a variety of objects to test. Sort the object into the two categories. Prepare a chart and record your findings in pictures and words. • Give milk • Have four legs • Have hooves • Goats have beards • Make different sounds • Make wool from goat fleece Society and environment • Bring in goat’s milk or cheese for the children to feel and taste. • If possible, visit a farm to view goats or arrange for a local farmer to bring a goat to visit the children. • Discuss the need to look after animals and some of the things farmers would have to do to care for their goats. • Explain that in many parts of the world there are wild goats that have to look after themselves. Children can suggest how they might do this and meet their basic needs of food, water and shelter, particularly in harsh environments such as in cold, rugged mountains or in hot, dry deserts. Look at pictures of wild goats in informational books. • Discuss reasons why people keep goats; for example: as pets; for their milk which can be drunk or made into butter, yoghurt and cheese; for their hair and skin; and for meat. Encourage children to talk about, and describe, any goat products they are familiar with. 4 Early years themes—Fairytales—The three billy goats Gruff www.ricpublications.com.au – R.I.C. Publications ®
The three billy goats Gruff – 2 Visual arts • Adapt the finger puppets on page 12 to make headbands to identify the four characters from the story. Print the page on light card and have each child colour, then cut out one of the characters. Prepare 60 cm x 5 cm strips of construction paper and staple a character in the middle of each so the puppet’s finger holes are obscured by the band. Staple a band to fit each child. The bands can be worn for some of the drama activities on page 7. • Use craft sticks to glue a bridge onto green card. Use markers to draw a troll underneath and the three billy goats Gruff. • Create a paper plate troll. Paint the paper plate a brownish-green colour with plain flour added to the paint to give texture. When dry, add stickers or circles of coloured paper for eyes; large teeth made by cutting pointed pieces, or a jagged strip, of white paper; ears from firm fabric or coloured paper; hair from pieces of wool, straw or fabric; and a beard from crunched up pieces of paper could be glued on. Other features could be drawn using markers. A brown paper bag could also be used in a similar way to create a simple troll hand puppet. • Visit for instructions for growing a ‘grass head’. • Create a goats’ paddock. Cut a strip about 3 cm wide from green crepe paper for each child to ‘fringe’ for grass. They do this by making cuts about halfway up the strip, 1 cm apart along the length of the paper. The grass can be glued onto a sheet of cardboard starting with a strip along the bottom first, then progressing upwards. Overlap the strips slightly so the fringed edges only show. The goats from page 13 can be placed in this green paddock and a bridge and troll could also be added. • Make a billy goat mask. Refer to page 16. Photocopy or trace the mask onto construction paper or light card. Colour, then cut out the mask, including the holes for the eyes. The mask can be attached to a long stick and held by hand, or have holes punched in the sides and string threaded through and tied around the child’s head. • Create a set of ‘nesting’ (babushka-style dolls) three billy goats Gruff by using different widths of cardboard rolls. Draw features on each using markers. Slip each doll inside the other and, if desired, mould a playdough troll to fit inside. • Assist the children to paint large outline drawings of the three goats and the troll. Add features using collage materials. Arrange and display the characters on the wall and encourage the children to refer to them as they retell the story. A label or a sentence about each character can be suggested by the children and added for them to practise reading. • Fold an A3 sheet of thin card in half, then open out flat. Place blobs of brown and green paint in the centre and fold shut again. Gently spread the paint outwards with fingertips. Open out to reveal a symmetrical troll face shape. When dry, cut out the face shape. (Teachers may need to draw a general outline for the children to follow.) Glue collage materials such as foam beads for teeth to create features for an ugly troll face. R.I.C. Publications ® – www.ricpublications.com.au Early years themes—Fairytales—The three billy goats Gruff 5
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