38 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 2A | The Maid and the Milk Pail
- Say to students: “Tell your partner what is happening in this picture
and why might that be happening.” Allow fifteen seconds for students
to talk. Call on two partner pairs to share. - Give students Response Card 2 (The Maid and the Milk Pail) from
Instructional Master 2A-1. Have students talk with their partner about
the difference between how the milkmaid looks in the first picture
(focused) to how she looks in the second picture (startled).
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Plumpest- In today’s fable you will hear that the milkmaid wants to buy the
plumpest chicken from a farmer. - Say the word plumpest with me three times.
- When something is the plumpest, it is the roundest, chubbiest, and
fullest. - Farmers like to buy the plumpest piglets.
- What other things can be the plumpest? [Suggestions: babies,
pillows, dumplings, lips, various kinds of fruit.]
Hatch - In today’s fable, the milkmaid wants to buy the chicken for its eggs
that will hatch. - Say the word hatch with me three times.
- To hatch is to break out from an egg.
- Julia and Marco watched in amazement as the chicks hatched from
their eggs. - Show your partner what hatch looks like. [Students may use their
hands as a shell and have their fingers crack open. Or they can curl
their bodies into a ball and slowly hatch from their “shell.”]