1. MLIS 7420 Fall 2009 Mary Helen Copeland Tall Tales Group Presented To: 8 & 9 year olds Target Age: 7 – 10 / 2 nd – 4 th grade
2. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears A West African Tale By Verna Aardema Pictures by Leo and Diana Dillion The Dial Press, New York 1975
3. The children knew I was going to tell them a story. To get them settled and in their place, I held the scarf up to cover my face. Every time, when they saw that curtain, they quieted and waited to hear the tale.
17. KPOA! The moral of this tale is; Don’t tell tales and always get the whole story before you get angry with your friends.
18. Materials Brown Paper Sack Brown Paper Scissors Tape Markers String Imagination Creativity
19. Working hard on our puppets. The boys cut stick shapes out of the brown construction paper and taped these onto the back of the brown bag.
20. Cutting, Taping & Coloring They tied string to the sticks coming out of the ears. Then they frayed the end of the string to represent the mosquito buzzing .
21. Adding a few final touches. They used only blue, green, yellow and orange markers to draw patterns on the brown bag for the iguana skin.