Dear students,
Reconciliation means to forget, forgive and do good to others.
The following stories have many values to imitate. The first one, Fern and Her Friends Clean Up, shows how important it is to cooperate and to take care of the environment. The second one, Pocahontas, shows how necessary it is to be friendly, to look for peace in the middle of a conflict, and to live in harmony.
Choose one of the stories below. Practice it. Then, retell it in your own words.
Remember: "always do your best".
Fern and Her Friends Clean Up
Click on the link and listen to the story. Then, read aloud. Practice it several times.
http://www.storytimeforme.com/player/?id=fern11&fs=0
Fern is out
walking in the woods with Poppy. It is a beautiful day and they are enjoying
themselves very much.
Then Fern
sees something lying in the grass. It is a scrap of paper. Poppy also sees
something. It is a tin can.
Soon the
friends see pieces of paper, cans, plastic bottles, and glass jars all over the
woods. It is terrible!
Quickly, Fern
and Poppy go to their friend’s houses to tell them about the mess in the woods.
Acorn,
Holly, and Willow get lots of bags and they follow Fern and Poppy to the place
in the woods that has been messed up.
Fern picks
up all the pieces of paper and puts them into a bag, and Holly collects all the
plastic bottles and puts them into a bag too.
Willow collects
all the metal cans, and Poppy collects all the glass jars.
The friends
have collected a lot of garbage. What are they going to do with it all?
Quickly,
Fern runs home and she brings her wheelbarrow to the cleaned up woods.
The friends
push the wheelbarrow to the recycling center. Good job everyone!
POCAHONTAS
Over 400 years
ago, there was a young girl named Matoaka. Matoaka was a Native American who
belonged to the Powhatans tribe.
She was
funny and bright. She was also very curious and clever. Her nickname was
Pocahontas, which means “playful”.
Pocahontas
and the other Powhatans lived in what we now call the state of Virginia.
When
Pocahontas was a young girl, many settlers from England came to her country.
“Look at
those huge sailing ships! They are amazing!”
“I think
they are scary looking. I don´t like
them.”
Many of the
other Powhatans did not like the settlers from England. Some were afraid of the
English. Some Powhatans even thought the English were devils.
“Chief
Powhatan, we must kill these English settlers. If we do not kill them, they
will kill us. They are evil. Even their weapons spit fire.”
But
Pocahontas was not afraid of the English settlers, and she did not think they
were evils. In fact, she became friends with the English settlers.
One day while
walking near the village, she met Captain Smith. Captain Smith was one of the
leaders of the settlement.
“What are
you doing with that long stick?”, she said.
“I am hunting
for wild animals”, he replied.
“Why don’t
you try these berries and this corn?”, she asked
“Mmm, they
are delicious. Thank you,” he answered.
One day,
the English settlers and the Powhatan warriors began to fight. It was very bad.
Some of the settlers died and some of the Powhatan warriors died.
The
Powhatans captured Captain John Smith and were going to kill him.
“You and
your people are evil. We do not want you here. We want your people to go home”,
said the chief of the tribe.
“No father!
Do not kill him! He is my friend. He is not evil and his people are not evil.
They can be our friends.”
Pocahontas
convinced her father to let Captain John Smith return to his people.
After that,
Pocahontas became a very good friend with the English settlers. She helped make
peace between the settlers and the Powhatans.
