Peter and the Wolf

For the last two weeks, the students at PES have been experiencing the musical story Peter and the Wolf.

It is an orchestral symphony by Sergei Prokofiev. You can listen to a recording here for free: http://archive.org/details/PeterAndTheWolf_753

To enhance our understand of this story and its characters here are some things we did:

-movements for each character when we hear their theme (see if your student can remember them all! 2nd graders should know them too)
-matching sheet: match each character to the instrument that plays their song
-finger puppets for each character
-sequence activity into a book
-read two different books
-listened to two different recordings
-watched the Disney version of the story: Peter and the Wolf 1946
-watched a video of Disney talking about the story and Prokofiev playing the themes: Disney and Prokofiev

As you can see, we've been busy! The students love this story. It is fun to watch the recognition in their faces as they hear each theme in the story.

Please check out the Program Info and Show and Tell links to the left!