STORYTELLING

This is a little abstract about the activities:

The childhood is a privilege. It is the spark of the life. And as a spark, the adults have the obligation to keep it alive. I love to think, that's the reason we tell stories. And this is my project.

The stories are focused to improve the children’s understanding and learning. For this is a good idea to follow a telling-sequence: pre-telling, telling and post-telling.

-The pre-telling is the introduction where you show the ideas you want children to learn with the story.
-The telling, basically, is the story, it's very important to pay attention to telling tecniques, such as de voice, gestures, realia, etc..
-The post-telling is where children reinforce and use the ideas they have learned with the telling and the pre-telling.

SNOW WHITE

SNOW WHITE

           

Tale: Snow White

A very beautiful queen envious of her stepdaughter Snow White when her magic mirror tells her that Snow White has been growing to be the most beautiful of the kingdom and ordered a soldier to kill her. The soldier takes pity and let free in the forest, where he finds shelter in a small house inhabited by seven dwarfs. She stays with them, in exchange for help cleaning and cooking. But the stepmother learns from the mirror that is alive, and prepares a poisoned apple, giving you try posing as an old saleswoman. Snow White then drops dead, and dwarfs the enclosed in a glass coffin. A prince falls in love seeing her so beautiful. Toss in a coffin, Snow White ejects the piece of apple from her throat and revives the prince falls in love with that house.

Pre-Telling

Snow White magically appears from her book and says: Hello children, I’m Snow White! How are you today? Are you angry? Are you sleepy? Are you happy? I’m so happy!! (At this part, everybody sings this song).

When the song finishes, Snow White realizes that the room is very untidy, so she decides to tidy up the room with the children’s help, repeating twice or three times the important words children have to learn. In this moment Snow White starts singing: “It’s time to tidy up the room, it’s time to tidy up the room, it’s time to tidy up the room, put all the things in their corner”.

Snow White takes the things that are on the floor;

-This is an orange (x2).

-This is a banana (x2).

-This is a pear (x2).

-These are two books (x2)… but… where is the library?

(She puts the things in their corner).

-Wow! What’s this? It’s a box!!! What’s inside the box? (She tells to a pupil “open it…smell it…taste it… mmmmm… it’s an apple!!! Do you like apples? I don’t like apples… do you know why?”

“So… One, two, three, silence please,

three, two, one, yes we can!”

Telling

At this part, have to tell the story with simple vocabulary to facilitate the children’s understanding. We use simple gestures, kind voice and clear pronunciation. During the story we assure repetition of the key words we want them to learn.

v They have to tell what is happening in the story with their own words. And the other classmates can ask them questions about the tale.

 

Post-Telling

Finally, when the story is finished, all the room is untidy again, so Snow White asks for children’s help. The class is divided in several groups. These groups are going to tidy up the room as Snow White done in the pre-telling.

LION KING

THE LION KING

The book is perfect for children aged 9-10

Tale: The lion king

The son of King Mufasa is born, the little Simba, who is the pride of his father. A small born with a lucky star, has a fiancee, a devoted and loyal to their king kingdom, but nothing good and pure come without its gray areas, because in the kingdom have envy the king's son. The life cycle of Scar, the king's brother, continually seeks to challenge and offend his brother, who does not have the capacity to take in their hands the power pack, he decides to make use of the enemies of Mufasa; hyenas to retain its position and then to impose Mufasa Simba. The two brothers and the struggle for power. Simba is too innocent and proud to understand that its momentum and lack of judgment may lead to unnecessarily put at risk. Mufasa something fails, trying to instill in their small teachings of the kings of the past and the cycle of life that lead you to be the rightful king. The Fall of the House of Mufasa and Scar Scar ascension uses the only weakness of his own brother; his young son to assassinate him. Loading blame the murderer of his father, Simba flees to be hunted by hyenas, fortunately survives. Hakuna Matata: Fleeing the past. Timon and Pumbaa, two travelers without a job or benefit, carry hand the grown Simba to a life where you deviate from your path, fleeing the destination to which it is intended to go, but Nala, his old friend game comes to remind him not matter how far you go, the past is always with him. The cycle of life never goes away.

Pre-Telling

On the pre-telling we find the activities we do before the tale. This activities are for kids comprehension

In this story, appears a lot of kind of animals, so I’m going to work with children the animals and some verbs and adjectives related with these animals.

So in the pre-telling, the teacher will show the following vocabulary:

ANIMAL	ACTION	ADJECTIVE
-Giraffe	Walk	Big
-Fish	Swim	Small
-Elephant	Walk	Big
-Toucan	Fly	Small
-Zebra	Walk and run	Big
-Deer	Walk and run	Big
-Cow	Walk	Big
-Monkey	Climb	Medium
-Pelican	Walk	Medium
-Wild Boar	Walk and run	Medium
-Meerkat	Walk	Medium
-Yena	Walk and run	Big
-Rhino	Walk	Big
-Mammoth	Walk	Big

·      DIDACTIC  OBJECTIVES: With this activity we show the pupils the vocabulary about the tale.

v The second activity is a puzzle they will have to ride in pairs.

·      DIDACTIC  OBJECTIVES: Make children enjoy and learn how to work in groups.

    v The third activity is a little song where we work the numbers until ten. This song is very easy.

One little, two little, three little monsters,
Four little, five little, six little monsters.
Seven little, eight little, nine little monsters,
Ten of them can’t scare me!

Ten little, nine little, eight little monsters,
Seven little, six little, five little monsters.
Four little, three little, two little monsters,
One of them can’t scare me!

·      DIDACTIC OBJECTIVES: With this activity we show the pupils the numbers with the monsters, while we sing the song.

       The fourth activity is paint a page with various monsters with different characteristics

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  DIDACTIC OBJECTIVES: With this activity children develop their imagination to create their own characters. And they will learn in a fun way the a monster is not always scary.

Telling

On the telling we make questions of the children and we can know how is lisening  the story. This activities questions are for kids to participate in the story.

 ·      DIDACTIC OBJECTIVES: Children practice numbers.

Post-Telling

On the post-telling, the story was narrated and we find the activities related to the story.

·      DIDACTIC OBJECTIVES: With this activity the pupils reviewed some food about the tale.

·      DIDACTIC OBJECTIVES: Children remember the vocabulary previously seen in flash card.