Book Sharing – Strega Nona

Date: 21^st May 2014

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Yummy, Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Book Sharing – Strega Nona

We revised the ingredients that we used for our crepe recipe yesterday. Most of the children could remember all the ingredients except for flour.

I shared an old tale with the children – Strega Nona. I didn’t realize that story took us about half an hour to complete it.

This interesting story is about Strega Nona who was a witch. Though the people in the town always whisper behind her, yet they always look for her when they had trouble such as headache, looking for a husband or a wart.

Strega Nona is getting old and she needed a helper at home. After putting up the notice at the town square, Big Anthony came to see her. Big Anthony needed to keep the house clean, fed and milk the goat, weed the vegetables etc while Strega Nona will provide food and place to stay for him. However, there’s a magic pasta pot that Big Anthony was advised not to touch. One day, Big Anthony saw what Strega Nona did with the pasta pot, he was amazed and wanted to try it out on his own. Unfortunately, he didn’t watch the whole process of what Strega Nona was doing.

Once when Strega Nona was out of town, Big Anthony took out the pasta pot and sang as what Strega Nona did. The magic pot started to cook pasta and it was enough for the whole town to eat. Unfortunately, Big Anthony couldn’t stop it from cooking and it flooded the town with pasta. When Strega Nona came, she knew what’s going on and stopped it. Big Anthony was being punished to finish up all the pasta that he had cooked so that Strega Nona has a bed to sleep for the night.