Project Title: The Three Pigs
Project Dates: 1/1/04-4/1/04
Project Summary:
Read and compare several versions of The Three Pigs.
Write and Illustrate your own version. View your stories and illustrations after they have been published on-line.
Educators: Submit your story, illustration, and any digital pictures of your houses and/or puppets (extension activities) to this web site to be posted and communicate through e-mail with others in the project.
Project Extensions:
1.) Create houses representing the houses of the three pigs. Take digital pictures to send in to this web site.
2.) Create puppets and retell story
3.) Using a computer program like Neighborhood Map Machine by Tom Snyder Productions, create a map to the three pigs house.
Project Level: Grades K-3
Curriculum : Language Arts,
Project email: mcoutureteaches@yahoo.com
Project Instructions:
E-Mail the project sponsor of your desire to participate. Give your name, school, address, email address, and projected completion date of your activities. Submit your story, illustration and any digital photos within two weeks of your completion date.
Registration Acceptance dates: 1/1/04- 3/15/04
Number of Participants: 10
Grades: K-3
Project URL: www.geocities.com/mcoutureteaches/thethreepigs.html
Full project description:
Read several versions of The Three Pigs.
The Three Pigs by Paul Galdone
Pig, Pigger, Piggest by Rick Walton
The True Story of the Three Pigs by Jon Scieszka
The 3 Pigs by Edda Reinl
Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs
The Fourth Little Pig by Teresa Celsi
After you have read several versions, write and illustrate your own version. Feel free to change the setting, characters, ending, etc. Send in your stories, illustrations, and digital pictures (if you have taken some), etc. After they have been posted, communicate with others that have participated, to ask questions and communicate about their versions.
Technology Required:
This activity can be completed in a one computer classroom. The necessary technology is a computer, tv-computer hook-up to view stories and illustrations after they have been published. Optional technology needed: digital camera if you would like to take digital photos, scanner to scan stories and illustrations.
Az. Standards covered: (including the extension activities)
Reading R-R1, R-R2, R-R5
Writing W-R1, W-R2
Listening & Speaking LS-R1, LS-R2, LS-R3, LS-R4, LS-R5
Viewing and Presenting VP-R2, VP-R3
Social Studies 3SS-R1
Technology 1T-R1, 1T-R2, 2T-R1,2T-R2, 3T-R1
Project Contact Information
Marla Couture
Kindergarten Teacher
Mountain Shadows Elementary School
Glendale, Az. USA
mcoutureteaches@yahoo.com
This project was modeled after The Gingerbread Man at:
http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/pr/_cfm/GetDetail.cfm?StartRow=11&by=Sorted%20by%20Age&view=byAge&sortby=Sorted%20by%20Age&sqlby=ORDER%20BY%20pFromAge%2CpToAge&pID=1522