Fairy Tales

 

Our Foundation Stage students have been learning about Fairy Tales. The classrooms were abuzz with excitement as we embraced the theme by building Fairy Tale puzzles, made crowns fit for a prince and princess, paged through our many Fairy Tale books in the book corners, made beautiful crafts relating to the theme and of course read various Fairy Tales at story time.

Fairy Tales offer something a little different to a child’s development. They enrich imagination, cultivate a deeper understanding of life’s great truths as well as elevate an understanding of things that can be difficult and complex to convey.

Reasons Fairy Tales are good for children:

1. They see good conquer evil
2. Consequences for actions
3. They see great obstacles overcome by ordinary characters
4. They enrich imagination
5. They benefit every age
6. They build emotional resiliency
7. Teach critical thinking skills
8. Fairy Tales teach lessons
9. Vocabulary
10. Emotional Processing

We ended off the theme with a dress up day, which was the most fun of all. The students got to tell the class about their favourite Fairy Tale and some got to dress up as and talk about their favourite characters (See photos). As Hans Christian Andersen once said: “Life itself is the most wonderful Fairy Tale.”

Cindy Nunan

Pre-Reception Teacher