Kindergarden - Kings and Queens

Kings and Queens: Supplemental Guide 5 | The Princess and the Pea 103

Advance Preparation

For What Have We Learned?, choose a few Flip Book images on which

to focus as you review domain concepts covered thus far in the domain

(e.g., the royal family, king’s possession of gold and riches, advantages

and disadvantages of being in a royal family).

Prepare a copy of Instructional Master 5A-1 for each student. Refer to it

as Response Card 4 (The Princess and the Pea). Students can use this

Response Card for discussion, review, and to answer questions.

For the Vocabulary Preview, prepare items that are delicate (e.g.,

glassware, chinaware, collectables, silk/cashmere clothing, art). Remind

students that delicate items are easily broken, so they must ask before

touching, and they must handle the items with care.

For Presenting the Read-Aloud, layer several cushions or pillows on top

of a frozen or dried pea to show how the queen tests the princess by

putting a pea underneath many layers of mattresses and pads. You may

wish to have students try sitting on the cushions to see if they can feel

the pea under so many layers.

For the Character, Setting, Plot Map, help students create their own

three-circle map. Students may choose to cut and paste pictures from

the image sheet or draw their own pictures in the circles for their own

Character, Setting, Plot Map. Alternatively, you may wish to draw the

circles on the board and do this activity as a class.

CSP

For the Domain-Related Trade Book, you may wish to introduce students

to another version of “The Princess and the Pea” or another fairy tale by

Hans Christian Anderson that has a royalty theme (e.g., “Thumbelina,”

“The Little Mermaid,” “The Nightingale,” or “The Emperor’s New

Clothes”).

Note to Teacher

Use the Vocabulary Preview to help students understand the concept

of real, providing explanations and examples as needed. In the

Comprehension Questions, students will discuss whether they think this

is a real story; they will also think and talk about which parts of the story

could be real and which parts are make-believe.