ART IN CLASS (Narración y Dramatización)

Los jugadores de naipes.
Francisco de Goya, 1789

La gallina ciega.
Francisco de Goya, 1789.

The teacher will show these paintings to the children, in which the topic is traditional games. It is a good way to show them how culture was in their country in the past. That will help them to be aware of the changes that have happened in their country. Making a comparison between how the game was in the past and how is it nowadays.

Now, all the children will play to “Gallinita Ciega” and “Cinquillo”. In the first game, one child will cover his/her eyes with a blinker and all the kids have to move around in order to be catch. If the “hen” grabs on of his/ her classmates, he /she would have to figure out who that person is. In the second game, the children will have to put the card number five on the table, and then they will have to follow the numbers up and down. The winner is the one that runs out of cards first.

READER "THE RAINBOW FISH" (Narración y Dramatización)

STORYTELLING: “A TASTE OF THE MOON” (Narración y Dramatización)

STORYTELLING: “A TASTE OF THE MOON”

“A taste of the moon” by Michael Grejniec is a very nice book. It is about the animals that want to taste the moon, but the moon is so far and they are not able to catch it. So they have to cooperate and help themselves to reach the moon. After making a high tower, they get to reach and take a little piece to taste it.

I have chosen this book for several reasons:

-I think that it is a very interesting book for children because the main characters are the animals and children love animals. This book is appropriate for children between 3 to 5 years old.After reading it you can do activities related with animals.

-This story teaches us that it is very important to cooperate and to do things together to reach our objective, no matter how is each person.

-The structure of this book is appropriate for children because it is a quite repetitive and cumulative. This is a good way to catch the attention of children and children can understand the story more easily. Repetition is an important resource because children can anticipate what will happen.   

-The pictures are good, because they are more or less like in real life. Pictures at all the time appear to facilitate the understanding of the tale. Illustrations take a very important role because it is a way to introduce them in the story.

-With this tale we can work animals, the concept “above and below”, attitudes of help and cooperation and enjoyment by reading.

Some actiivties that teacher can do with children before, while and after reading this book are:

Before reading:
-Flashcards with different animals.
-They can talk about some places where animals live.
-Showing the cover of the book, teacher can ask to children what is the book about and what animals they want to appear in the story.

While reading:
-While the teacher is reading the story, she or he should try to engage children. For example, teacher can ask what animal is going after, or how we can call to the other animal...
-Children can draw their favourite animal.


After reading:
-Visit a farm.
-Visit the zoo.
-Mask-making.
-Make costumes.
-With the masks and constumes they can prepare a play.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (Narración y Dramatización)

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (activities before, while and after reading)

1. Excursion to Faunia to see the butterflies from the world.

2. Life-cycle of butterflies: the teacher will bring to the classroom some caterpillars. In this way the children can see the life-cycle.

3. The number's song.

4. Maths: we can work shapes (circles, triangles and rectangles) to make a caterpillar.

5. Arts and Crafts:  we can crete a collage about caterpillar.

6. ICT (Information and Communication Technology): find some activities on the internet about healthy food.

7. Bingo with pictures of fruits to recognise different types of food. 

"ZOG" (Narración y Dramatización)

“ZOG”

We have read the book “ZOG” in class and in groups we have had to think whether the book was appropriate for children. And we decide that it was appropriate for children of five years old for these reasons:

The book is interesting because children like magic things and they want to become “big dragons”.

The level is adequate although the book has words that they do not understand; the general idea is easy to understand.

There are not long descriptive paragraphs, there are short sentences.

There are literary devices such as: “now that you have been shown, you can practise on your own”.

It has a good layout because the children are able to follow the book while they are looking at the pictures.

With this book teacher can teach values like friendship.

READER "CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" BY ROALD DAHL (Narración y dramatización)

"CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" (chapter one)

Hello! My name is Charlie Bucket. I live in a very little house with my family; my mother, my father and my four grandparents, my mother’s parents and my father’s parents.

We do not have so much money because my father is the only one with a job.

We usually eat cabbage but I prefer to eat chocolate because it is my favourite food. This is the reason why I love my birthday’s present, a tiny chocolate bar that I eat slowly.

Every day when I go to the school I see Willy Wonka’s huge chocolate factory that smells like chocolate and makes me feel starving.

I would really like to get in the factory and discover how it is from the inside. 

RESOURCES (Narración y dramatización)

Below I will put some websites that have tales, short stories and readings, which we can use with children to learn English. 

They are a good resource to improve reading and listening strategies. 

• www.magicskeys.com/books/index.html

• www.storybookcastle.com/tales

• www.people.ucalgary.ca

• www.storylineonline.net

• www.sylvandellpublishing.com

• www.pbskids.org

• www.bbc.co.uk