My girls have been obsessed with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Their Grandma is quite the story teller and I think it has rubbed off on my children. We don’t have the book so we just tell the story. I am so proud of their retelling skills. Retelling stories is a great language activity. It works on recalling prior knowledge, sequencing, and so many other language skills. As a Speech and Language Therapist I love to listen to their language develop. Yes.. there are so many errors… but that is a normal (and cute) part of development. Anyway… it’s a great story for sequencing and working on concepts (small, medium, large, big, little, hard, soft, hot/cold, broke).
Today we decided to act it out. We found food (we used ice cream instead of porridge), chairs, and beds. The bears left for a walk and Goldilocks showed up in her pink barbie convertible.
The bears came home to discover Goldilocks had eaten their ice cream, sat in their chairs, and slept in their beds. She took off in her getaway convertible and everyone lived happily ever after.
That made us hungry so we headed to the kitchen for a snack! Bringing kids in the kitchen gives you a wonderful opportunity to work on language skills. I should do it more but I don’t enjoy being in the kitchen-LOL! We made the three bears beds complete with “covers”. We used graham crackers for small, medium, and large sized beds and the girls got to choose what color of cover they wanted (peanut butter, nutella, jelly, or cheese). Then they put their bears to bed. They were a hit!
