December 21, 2007

This month we celebrated the author and illustrator Jan Brett. Her birthday is on December 1st.

Mrs.Conklin instructs the students on when they should participate by making the knocking on the door sounds. "Knockety knock, knockety knock."


Who's that knocking on Christmas Eve?   Is it the trolls who come every year and gobble up Kyri's Christmas feast?  Kyri is worried, but when she peeks out and sees the boy from Finnmark and his ice bear, she opens the door and welcomes them in.
     Knockety knock, knockety knock.  Who's that knocking on Christmas Eve?  This time it is the trolls pounding on the door.  But they can't get in.
 
     Knockety knock, knockety knock.  The trolls pound even harder.  Suddenly there is a loud crack and the hungry little trolls burst into the hut.
    Will Kyri, the boy, and his ice bear be able to save the Christmas feast?
Mrs.Mayland and Mrs. Conklin take turns reading the story.
Jan Brett and her husband, Joe Hearne, went to Norway for her story, based on an old Norwegian folktale.  They traveled all the way the the northern province of Finnmark, where the polar bears live and the northern lights radiate across the sky.


The entire school community enjoys listening to this wonderful story!

 

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