Grade 1 / The Fisherman and His Wife

Downloadable Production Guide & Activity Sheet (.pdf)

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Sample Activities

Fairy Tales (and many other types of stories) often use pictures to help tell the story. Along with showing the action of the story, these pictures can also show the emotions of the characters. Some of the feelings in pictures include happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, and fear. Draw a face for each emotion on separate pieces of paper and label each. Ask your teacher to read a Fairy Tale to the class, but without showing the pictures. As your teacher reads the story, hold up your drawings of an emotion each time you feel the hero or heroine experiences it. After everyone in the class is holding up an emotion card, the teacher can then show the class the picture, and as a class, find evidence of the emotions in the picture.

In our story, a magic Flounder granted wishes. Pretend that you’ve met a magic fish who is willing to grant you three wishes but you must make one wish for yourself, one for someone you know, and one for the whole world. What would your wishes be? Draw an outline of a fish on three separate pieces of large construction paper. Write one of your wishes inside each fish. As a class, create an “ocean wish wall” either by taping pieces of blue construction paper to the wall or tacking up a piece of blue fabric. Attach each fish to the “ocean”.

NYS Learning Standards

Preparatory Workshop

ARTS 1: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts – THEATRE
ARTS 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources – THEATRE
ARTS 4: Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts – THEATRE
ELA 1.1: Language for Information and Understanding – Listening and Reading
ELA 1.2: Language for Information and Understanding – Speaking and Writing
ELA 2.1: Language for Literary Response and Expression – Speaking and Writing
ELA 4.1: Language for Social Interaction – Listening and Speaking

The Fisherman and His Wife Performance

ARTS 1: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts – THEATRE
ARTS 1: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts – DANCE
ARTS 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources – THEATRE
ELA 2.1: Language for Literary Response and Expression – Speaking and Writing
ELA 4.1: Language for Social Interaction – Listening and Speaking

Production Guide
Standards addressed by the suggested activities

ARTS 1: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts – THEATRE
ARTS 3: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art – THEATRE
ELA 1.2: Language for Information and Understanding – Speaking and Writing
ELA 2.1: Language for Literary Response and Expression – Listening and Reading
ELA 2.2: Language for Literary Response and Expression – Speaking and Writing
ELA 3.1: Language for Critical Evaluation and Analysis – Listening and Reading
ELA 3.2: Language for Critical Evaluation and Analysis – Speaking and Writing
ELA 4.1: Language for Social Interaction – Listening and Speaking
SS 4.1: Understanding Major Economic Concepts – Wants vs. Need