Beatrice's Goat (Story)
Added: 09 Dec 2016
Contributor:
Clare Quigley
Resource type:
Audio / Video
Beatrice's Goat tells the story of how the lives of one poor family in Africa were dramatically improved by the simple gift of a goat from a charitable organization. Beatrice desperately wants to go to school, but her family cannot afford it. Instead, she spends her days caring for her younger siblings and helping in the fields on their small plot of land in a rural African village. Then one day, Beatrice's family receives a precious gift--a goat! In time, the goat provides milk to sell as well as baby goats, and soon the family has earned enough money so Beatrice can go to school.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Reading
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- continue to listen to and enjoy stories and poems being read aloud
- engage frequently in informal discussion of books with teacher and others
- engage with a wide variety of text
- listen to entire stories read aloud in instalments
- respond to characters and events in a story
Suggestions for use: Play the story for the class in sections, pausing for comprehension questions as you move through the story. Would be a good introduction to a school fundraising project for a charity such as Bóthar which sends animals to developing countries.
Strand: Reading
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in talk about books
- share responses with other children and with adults to cultivate a community of readers
Suggestions for use: Play the story for the class in sections, pausing for comprehension questions as you move through the story. Would be a good introduction to a school fundraising project for a charity such as Bóthar which sends animals to developing countries.
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and places in other areas
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate ways in which people in different areas depend on one another and on people living in other parts of the world
- become familiar with some aspects of the lives of people and especially of children in Ireland, Europe and other areas
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- begin to develop a sense of belonging to local, county, national, European and global communities
- develop an awareness of the interdependence of these people and people in Ireland
- study some aspects of the environments and lives of people in one location in Europe and one location in another part of the world
