At the heart of the St. John Bosco Schools curriculum is the recognition that fostering a sense of wonder in the hearts and minds of our students is essential to forming life-long lovers of learning.  G.K. Chesterton reminds us of the importance of fairy tales in preserving this wonder:

“these tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found they were green.  They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water . . . And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling.  It was an ecstasy because it was an adventure.”  CLICK HERE TO READ CHESTERTON'S ENTIRE ESSAY, "THE ETHICS OF ELFLAND."

Instructions 

All students are required to read (or have read to them) the following Fairy Tales.  After reading, parents are encouraged to discuss each tale with their student(s) with emphasis on what they think of each of the main characters, their understanding of the action in the story and, of course, the “moral of the story.”  Students will also discuss these Fairy Tales in class during the first two weeks of school.

Click on the title of the Fairy Tale to access the text of the story.

“Five Wise Words of the Guru” edited by Andrew Lang. 

“The Nightingale” edited by Andrew Lang. 

“It's Perfectly True!” written by Hans Christian Anderson.