fairy magic spells

Judy adding ingredients to our magic potion
Pointing at where "diwata" fairies might exist
Francine placing a sticker to mark the map

  What are faires?
  
Are fairies real or are they just found   

mixing & chanting
                                                        Bela's turn to mix

      in stories?
turn you into a rock!






The children have plenty to say about fairies. They think fairies are definitely real and are "magical teeny-tiny things who look like people but with wings and live in an enchanted forest and turn other things into something else" a definition composed by Judy, Aston, Lucas and Simon.  The children's description of fairies are sort of limited to what they might see on tv and the typical fairytale stories so to broaden their ideas we looked at other types of fairies from other parts of the world. They were so surprised to learn that there were also fairies in Africa.  I shared fairy stories I grew up with in the Philippines called the "diwata".
We noticed that some of the fairy stories have a common theme or function and that is to remind humans of the importance of our forests and to be caring and friendly with one another.  The children were very fond of the idea that faires can magically turn humans into other creatures.  We then pretended to be fairies and came up with our own magic spell and collected ingredients to make our magic potion.  To make sure it works the first time they came up with funny, made-up rhyming words such as these: 

Rock,pock, wock                                                    Trees,wheez
Turn this human into a rock!                                    Peas, cheese, squeeze
Boom!                                                                      I turn you into a bat













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