1. RIGA’S SECONDARY SCHOOL No.47 5a
ANIMALS IN TALES
RIGA’S SECONDARY SCHOOL
No.47 5a

2. CIRCLE MEMBERS FL1 - CANADA - Jacquet River School
FL2 – LIBERIA - Sis KT Daycare and Elementary School
FL3 – ROMANIA – Grupul Scolar Tehnic
FL4 – CANADA – MacDonal Consolidated
FL5 – EGYPT – Sadat City Language School
FL6 – HUNGARY - Szlovák Primary School
FL7 - LEBANON - Hajj Bahaa El-Dine Hariri School
FL8 – LATVIA – Riga Secondary School No.47

3. OUR QUESTION
Latvia people’s most popular folk tales are about animals where each animal has got its typical characteristic feature.
For example: a fox is cunning (e.g. – a folk tale “How a fox teaches a wolf to fish”), a bear – clumsy, a wolf – rather stupid, a hare – timid.
Our question is following:
Are there animals mentioned in your folk – tales and what typical features are attributed to them?

4. ANSWERS
ALL OF THE CIRCLE MEMBERS ANSWERED THAT IN THEIR COUNTRIES ARE TALES WITH ANIMALS.
THE ANIMALS ARE MADE SO THEY ACT LIKE HUMANS.
FROM TALES WE CAN LEARN A LOT OF THINGS THAT THE GOOD ALWAYS WINS.

5. In Canadian folk tales the animals are represented just like a human; they have emotions, and they are treated more like people instead of animals
the rabbit is the guide of the forest
fox is a spy
fish are the guide of the sea

6. Romania children answer that in some stories an owl is wise, and always he is steady
The animals are very similar to men, sometimes good and sometimes bad

7. Other Canadien’s children write, that they have folktales with talking animals like bears, fox, birds, wood pecker, and even mice! But my favorite is How the Crow got his Beak. I read that one in grade four it was the best one in the book!      

8. One of the famous tales in Arabic Literature is called " Calila wa Damna". These  were the names of two animals (Fox  & Wolf) were all the story was narrated on their tongue .

9. Children from Libana write, that our question is simple, it motivates us to search for folk tales we read at pre-school classes.

10. Some animals from Hungarian folk tales
A little pig: clever, eccentric,shy
A cat: flattering, kind, modes
A frog: dodgy, skillful
- The three little pigs
- Pigllet and the wolves
The King Kacor
- The frog prince
- The frog princess

11. Little Red Riding Hood teaches children not to talk to strangers and not to go in the forest alone.

12. The little Red Hen teaches kids to work together

13. The Three Little pigs teaches that we shouldn't underestimate the enemy and preparation

14. The three bears shows that if one steals, he should be punished

15. The fox and the crow. Fox is cunning, crow is foolish.

16. All of the animals in tales are just like humans.
There are lots of funny things and beliefs in tales.
We really like a lot of tales which are about animals acting like humans.

17. MODERN TOM THUMB