SK travelled through time, learning about Festivals and Fairy Tales for the past few weeks. We learned what traditional tale is, trying to identify "goodies" and "baddies" in the story, and beginning to understand how these tales often celebrate the triumph of good over evil.   The children did an amazing job retelling the story to their friends and 'acting' out the puppet show. By listening to traditional tales, we learned to recognize the features: repetitive language, structure, farmyard characters, animals that speak, etc. Children used repeated phrases and alliteration to help their own writing, and invented their own version of The Gingerbread Man and Three Little Pigs. Everyone loved the idea of building a cardboard castle in the classroom and what a blast we had. There were invitations sent to all different characters from many well-known fairytales to the Royal Ball at SK. I do have to say, that dressing up as the fairy tale characters was the highlight of the week: we had kings, queens, dragons, knights, magicians, princesses and witches! Just like most fairy tales have happy endings – ours had one too and “they all lived happily ever after.”