Little Princess Goodnight

Little Princess Goodnight is poem that we turned into a sound story in the Montessori class.  A sound story is when you take a poem or a story and add instruments/or sounds to help tell it.  In this poem the princess, her animals, and some other key words get sounds to help tell the story.  First we read the poem and picked out the key words, and identified what color the words were.  Next the students assigned each key word an instrument that they felt was appropriate for that word.  The last step was to assign parts and wait for their turn to play.  They did a great job of identifying the words and colors and waiting too play.

Once upon a time 

There was a Princess.

A lovely Princess.

She put her unicorn under her pillow.

She put her dragon under her bed. 

She put her peacock under her chair.

She put her mouse under her slipper.

And then she crept into bed and fell asleep.

But not the mouse.

The mouse crept out form under the slipper,

  and pinched the peacock under the chair.

The peacock crept out from under the chair,

  and pinched the dragon under the bed.

The dragon crept out from under the bed,

  and pinched the unicorn under the pillow,

And the unicorn started to cry!

The little Princess awakened.

"Oh dear!" she said.  "What shall I do?"

She thought~~~~~~~~~~

and thought~~~~~~~~~~~~

and she thought~~~~~~~~~~~

and thought~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Then.....

Little Princess Goodnight jumped out of bed!!

She put her unicorn on top of her pillow.

She put her dragon on top of her bed.

She put her peacock on top of her chair.

She put her mouse on top of her slipper.

And she, Little Princess Goodnight,

Crept under her bed and went back to sleep.

She was a lovely Princess!!

The End.

The students figured out what the word crept meant in the context of the poem and that a soft instrument would be appropriate for the word.  In addition to putting instrument sounds to the colored words you can also put a sound for thought, and the exclamation points.