#Word girl coloring pages free

#Word girl coloring pages free

With these younger children, I still do the boot-lacing craft ( see this post for instructions & free template). But he needs a place to put them! And as the kids can’t leave their boots in school, we make our own.

Instead we went straight to our craft! For, as Nikolaus knows that the children of our school are learning German, he usually makes a special stop to drop off a little treat to each student. We skipped our drawing lesson for the day. I added some details from the story as I read, too. So as I read the book, I called her Marie. In Hoffmann’s story, the girl is named Marie, while her beloved doll is named Clara. I am, after all, teaching German! However, I was surprised to find that this version calls the little girl Clara. I was excited to see that it was attributed to Hoffmann, as that is the version I want to focus on. Then I read the children a short story book of The Nutcracker. (You can read these and other facts in the various “ Steckbriefe” I created for my elementary & middle school students in this post.) Crack open a story book! Russian composer Tchaikovsky based his famous ballet on Hoffmann’s story.Hoffmann wrote a fairy tale about a nutcracker that comes to life in 1816. Nutcrackers represent luck, strength, and protection.Nutcrackers are traditionally made of wood in Germany.Nutcrackers have been around for 600 years.Of course, many of the children were excited to see something that they, too, had in their homes! I also brought in a small nutcracker to show them. This week is all about nutcrackers! I began today by telling my youngest students a little about nutcrackers. Pre-k / Kindergarten Nutcracker Art Project A few cracking-good facts: