Starry Safari Part 2

Phew! There was so much to get to in such a short time that Starry Safari took two days to really complete. I started off today's lesson with a review of what major and minor events are. We defined them then we went through the pages/movement that we had done the previous visit. With each page I asked them if it was a major or minor event. It took a little while, but they started getting it. We continued to review and explore more movement, then when I thought they had it down pretty well I split them up into two groups and had them perform it for their classmates. Whichever group was sitting down I had them watch for the major and minor events. I wanted to see if they could see the different events through the movement. There is one minor event in the story where the main character is "swinging with monkeys over head," the kids always mentioned that one for a minor event. They really liked swinging with monkeys. :) The kids did well with this and had a lot of fun. Now, since Christmas was coming up I chose one more story to do with them on the next visit...the Gingerbread Man! :)