STORYTELLING RESOURCES

I've found this blog very interesting because it contains more than 200 stories told in English and more than 100 songs in English, we can serve as future teachers and learning of children in their homes with their families.

The link is this:

http://englikids.blogspot.com.es/

I hope you can serve.

READER: "THE SELFISH CROCODILE"

The adaptation for a book I chosen this book because the story is suitable for children between 4-5 years old, and it has a interesting vocabulary about animals. 

For adaptation I made a big ilustrations and with differents materials, such us watercolors, cellophane, etc.

I wanted the children to experiment with touch, touching the book.

  

STORYTELLING : "FUNNY BONES"

Of my point of view, I choose this book because the ilustrations can attract the attention of children, and it's very interesting and fun.

On the one hand, children can learn new vocabulary about the human body parts, and they can learn new fun songs. 

On the other hand, this book without help of the teacher is a bit difficult for students.

In summary, children can learn and have some fun. This book is suitable for children between 4-5 years old.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

ACTIVITIES......

• BEFORE

1. Bring a shoes box with caterpilles inside! They are going to be our new pet and we also can see their life-cycle.

2. Ask the children to look for information about caterpillars. Tey could being books, pictures, internet printed introduction.

3. Each child should tell to the class what they found and them the teacher will sum up everything and explain all the information to them.

• AFTER

1. Look for a song or chants about caterpillar.

2. We still taking care of our caterpillar.

3. Make a big paper caterpillar on the wall. The children should paint it all together.

• THE LAST ACTIVITIES

1. Brain storiming about what they have understand and make a free picture of the story, we will put on the wall with the caterpillar.

2. Look what happened with our caterpillar and talk about it.

3. Make a big butterfly on the wall.

4. Make mases of butterflies and caterpillars and decorate them.

Produced by Olga Mendez and Eva Martín Vega

KANDINSKY ACTIVITY

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1955), was a Russian painter who was one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. 

We have choosen this artist because we think that there are a lot of interesting paintings for children. Kandinsky has several eye-catching atworks, so children are going to be attracted to them. All his paintings are full of colours and shapes, so we can teach different things such us sizes, colours, numbers, shapes (circles, squares..), lines and so on.

It will be great to devote one term to teaching and working a lot of artworks from Kanddinsky. 

The painting we have choosen is "Kandinsky circles"

First of all, we have to introduce this painting, so we can use the computer and the projector to show it to children. We are going to ask our children some questions in order to learn things about the artwork:

• Which shapes can you see in the picture? How many?
• Which colours can you see?  

We can do a game to make sure that all the children have understood the shapes. We can ask them to stand up and look for circular and square things in class, such as rubbers, the glue cap, papers and so on. When they have found them, we can talk about the sizes of them asking: Which rubber is bigger this one or the other one? and questions like that with all the materials. 

For instance, to make sure that all the children have understood the different colours we can play to "Simon says": "Simon says that the children who wear something blue have to stand up" or "Simon says that the children who wear something red have to jump"... 

After that, we think that we can teach the circles in a funny and tasty way. We can use plastic or paper plates and food that has circular shapes and different sizes, such as biscutis, vegetables in pieces (carrots, tomatoes, courgettes...) and so on. Children will have to put the bigger food under the smaller one in order to do something similar to the painting. We have done an example of the idea at home:

The last activity that we have thought is related to crafts. We have to give each child a piece of paper and colours (crayons, markers...). Also we can use plasticine in order to make the circles with that. Children will have to paint in the paper the painting of Kandinsky. When they have finished all the pictures, we are going to join them making a big mural in order to hang it in the wall of the class.

PRODUCED BY CRISTINA BELTRÁN SABATER AND EVA MARTÍN VEGA

READING THECNIQUES, "MICE"

1. SKIMMING

What do you think the text is about?

2. SCANNING

- Answer the following questions:

• Which mouse can clim very well?
• Which mouse can't live in Antartica?
• Which mouse can sleep for seven months every year?
• Which mouse can eats seeds, worms and beetles?
• Which mouse can lives with people?

3. GUESSING MEANING FOR THE CONTEXT.

- Join the words with the corresponding pictures:

4. READING BETWEEN THE LINES.

- Answer the following questions;

• Why is the Harvest mouse a popular pet?
• Why can the Dormouse hear very well?

5. PREDICTING

How many types of mice exist in the word?

6. INTENSIVE READING

- Complete the following box;

Produced by Cristina Beltrán Sabater and Eva Martín Vega 

READER OF "CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY"

Charlie and his family live in a small wooden house, outside the town.

The house has two rooms but only one bed for all of them. The four grandparents sleep in the bed because they are so old and tired. 

Charlie and his parents sleep on the floor, in the other room. This house is too cold in the winter but it´s warm in summertime.

The Charlie's family is too poor, and they can't buy enough food. The Charlie's father works in a toothpaste factory and he doesn´'t can enough money to live well all of them. So they are too poor and they can't buy enough food.

They always eat cabbage soup, but Charlie dreams with a chocolate bar. Once a year in his birthay, he gets a chocolate bar. Near the Charlie's house there is a enormous chocolate factory called "Wonka's Factory", it is the most famous in the world. The inventor of the factory is Mr. Willy Wonka.

This factory makes the most spectacular and fabolous chocolate of the world.

Produced by Lorena Seco Molinero, Cristina Beltrán Sabater and Eva Martín Vega.