We read The Gingerbread Cowboy and used visual picture cards of all the animals the Gingerbread Man passed on his escape. The students loved retelling the story using the cards. They also like helping read the repeated parts in the story - Giddyup, Giddyup, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man. We also have previously read Gingerbread Man stories in December and the children liked comparing and contrasting the different versions.
I love to read this story. I add a southern accent while I read and the students are captivated. The week before I always read Cinderella so the students have back ground knowledge on how the traditional story goes before exposing them to the fractured fairy tale. The students love the Fairy God Cow. We always compare and contrast to the original story of Cinderella and the kids love it.
Little Britches is a cowgirl. I like to read this story since the main character is a girl. Most traditionally the students see cowboys as only being boys. I like to add the diversity of the cowgirl. She is riding her horse to the rodeo and comes upon rattlesnakes. She bargains with the snakes and gives away her clothes piece by piece so the snakes do not swallow her up. By the end of the story she is left in her long johns and then hears the snakes bickering to each other. In the end the snakes swallow themselves up and she gets her belongings back. She makes it to the rodeo just in time to rope her cow and win first prize. I had the students think about what cowboys and cowgirls wear. Each child created a journal page drawing themselves as a cowboy or a cowgirl. Then they had to tell the teacher if they were a cowboy or a cowgirl and about one thing their cowperson was wearing. I of course modeled drawing and writing my sentences. Sounding out the words as I wrote. I encouraged students who are at the emergent writing level to try and write some of their sentences.
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