Lena the Chicken (But Really a Dinosaur!)
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What is the premise of the Lena the Chicken story and who are the narrators?
This is Believe. One network, every topic, everywhere. Okay our friends. So we did a bird story yesterday. We learned about this cranky Krabby Crow who was really way more than he seemed, and so we're gonna stay on that track today and we're going to read another story called Lena the Chicken, but really a dinosaur. This story was written by Linda Bailey and Kaffi Steele, and it is read today by Mommy and The P-H-I-L-I-P. The P-H-I-L-I-P. I love that. The Phillip. And The Phillip. The Phillip.
How does Lena begin to doubt she is just a chicken?
We're going to read this story. And it's a very serious story, so I want you to get your very serious faces on, my friends, okay? We're reading about a chicken. And there's gonna be a lot of science in this book. Mm-hmm. So get your paleontologist hat out, put it on. Grab your copy of the book. I want you to get cozy and comfy. I want you to get yourself. Yeah. Dinosaur goodies out and join us. Are you ready? Okay, here we go. Here's Lena. And she looks like a chicken. Right? Then the picture we can see. It there's the barnyard, right? And there's a tractor and then there's the chicken coop and there's some trees And of course the chickens. But Lena didn't believe she was a chicken. Not For one second. Deep Down. In the bottom of her heart, Lena was sure she was.
Bay.
Bad so
that she just knew it. Even though she ate chicken feed and lived in a chicken coop and was surrounded on all sides by chickens, she was convinced
I don't so
It made her bold. It also made her different. Her family was a bunch of chickens and they were scared of everything, and then there were times when they drove Lena to despair. So here she goes.
Why don't you stand up for yourselves?
She yells at them because a frog has come into the room and they don't know what to do with themselves.
Have some gumption
she says because they can see a cat and they're scared.
It's just an empty old box! How can you be scared of that?
She says because they see a box. And they panic. Lena didn't understand her relatives one bit. And they didn't understand her either.
Dinosaur? Ha you and your big ideas. Aim low and you'll never be disappointed.
My thinking small. say the chickens to her over dinner. Lena also had problems with the people. On the farm. when they came to collect eggs for their breakfasts, there she was, standing guard, and the people had to wait till Nina left before they could go into the chicken coop. And if she caught them, she chased them. And she also tried to scare them off with dinosaur sounds.
The mom and the dad on the farm didn't know what to think. What is wrong with that chicken? She's getting on my nerves, but Madeline? Thought Lena was great. Madeline is the little girl on the farm, right?
She has personality. I like her.
So that's how things were until the weasel. Showday. He was sneaky and skinny and had a magnificent set of whiskers and one day he was just there on the edge of the woods, and the people didn't notice but the chickens sure did.
Oh no, he's going to eat us.
Oh no. The chickens are worried, and every day the weasel crept closer and
closer.
The chickens were nervous rucks. What can we do? Oh, wow.
I know they're freaking out, but then one evening the people went out to a barbecue and before they left they shut the chickens in the coop for safety. This was it, the weasel's chance, and he climbed onto that apple box to get closer. Working quickly, he pried a hole in the wall. And then all of a sudden, there
he was
coming inside, and the chickens went wild!
Look look I can see him I can see his nose I can see his whiskers Oh no he's got fangs Bla blah blah blah
That's when Inside Lena, something Happened. Something Ancient, something primeval, something that came from way down deep inside her bones and DNA and rose up through her body like a geyser, giving her a power that she had never had before. It was a dreadful gl- From the deepest gut that grew and grew and grew and gr into a thousand dinosaurs. And it shook.
Why do Lena’s fellow chickens react to her confidence and what conflict arises?
It was so loud. It shook the earth. It shook the chicken coop too. The sidewall, already weakened by the weasel, started to collapse.
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