Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona: The Musical
by Maximum Entertainment
Grades K-4
Based on the popular children’s books, this is the musical tale of a friendly, magical witch who strives to cure the ills of her tiny Italian town. When a local lug named Big Anthony fools with Strega Nona’s magic pasta pot, pasta threatens to engulf the whole town and Strega Nona must save the day! With an energetic score and high-caliber production value, this fantastic tale teaches that witches can be good... and that you can’t judge a pot by its pasta!
California Content Standards easily applied in your classroom:
- K.EN.RE.2.2: Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content.
- 2.EN.RE.2.6: Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a text.
- 3.EN.RE.3.3: Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them.
LESSON PLAN IDEA: What are the jobs or responsibilities in your classroom? Students brainstorm and then choose which jobs they will be in charge of from a pasta pot!
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