The Big Bad Wolf's Story

Today in school we learned the meaning and the importance of voting. In class we had a news reporter (mom) tell the story that she heard from the Wolf in the classic fairy tale The Three Little Pigs and that he claims that he was framed!!! The wolf was simply trying to get a cup of sugar and had a cold. He went to each pigs house and knocked but they were rude and wouldn't let him in much less give him a cup of sugar. Because of his cold though and his allergies, he would sneeze and end up blowing the pigs house in. He also concluded that the first two pigs were obviously not intelligent since they had built them a house of hay and sticks and therefore their testimony should not be admissible! He continued his story letting them know that by the time he had gotten to the third pigs house the cops were already on their way and they found him sick and tired and judged him because he was mad that the little pigs had not been friendly to him, but they took the pigs side of the story and that is the story we have known for the rest of our Once upon a time time.

Now my three little (no they are not pigs) students had to decide which way to cast their ballot (yes, I know this is a court/Tv case but pretend it is an election type jury situation). So we dicussed our bias's to the story we have already known and to the new story and discussed who we thought to be truth. We debated and it got a little heated (I had to remind them that their opinion was not truth, just opinion). Zech wonderfully reminded us that we had to list the facts. So I sent them all to a different room to think over the fact presented to them, draw a picture of the character that best represented his side of the story and who they thought were telling the truth. Do you know who won? It was 2 against 1 and the pigs won! (I think the voting was a little tainted by our bias's, what do you thing!) It was too funny of a fairy tale, but my three little voters got the idea of how, why, and what to vote on!