On Monday we read the story El Toro Ferdinando and yesterday we watched the dubbed Disney short Ferdinand. We followed the video with chapter 1 of the novel Bianca Nieves y los 7 Toritos in which we meet her bull Ferdinando! We made some predictions about the novel based on what we saw when we watched the 2011 movie Blancanieves and from reading the story Snow White… What are some key elements of a fairy tale? What elements make a fairy tale more like Disney and which make it more like Grimm! As level 2 students they can make great connections!
Mine have decided that the novel is going to be more like Grimm! We shall see! They have also started a “Burn” chart where they are keeping track of Bianca and Salomé’s spats. I think they’ll be surprised how infrequently Bianca gets the upper hand!
Today we read Chapter 2 which talked about the ranch property size and the budding relationship between dad and Salomé (not-so-lovingly nicknamed Salami). We followed with an activity from the teacher’s guide called “Picasso of Plates”!