HUMPTY DUMPTY ( LAURA GONZÁLEZ)

 I propose below some activities related to the well-known rhyme Humpty Dumpty, which have been thought for a group of students of third grade of Preschool or first year of Primary Education.

Firstly, I will present the characters of the rhyme to my students with a magic bag, so they will begin to make predictions of what is inside the bag. I will take out an object of the magic bag, and it will be some lego blocks and I will ask the kids what we can build with those blocks, and among the options they might propose a wall! Then, I take another object, in this case it is a boiled egg whose name is Humpty Dumpty! And after it, I take out some horses and some knights.

Now that the kids are familiar with the different characters of the rhyme, I am going to say the rhyme slowly like it was a poem and meanwhile I will be using the characters from the magic bag to interpret it. The second time, I will sing the song for them and use the objects of the characters to illustrate it. Then we will all sing the rhyme watching the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrv495corBc

After it, the kids are going to colour and cut out some pictures of the characters of the rhyme and we will glue behind them a paper straw so as to create their own puppets of the rhyme.

Then, we will listen and act out the rhyme twice,using the puppuets and making some gestures and actions of the characters so they will be imitating the actions and movements that I do.

Finally, I will divide the kids in groups and each time a group will come to the front of the class, and we all be singing the rhyme and the members of the group will be acting out the rhyme, doing the actions, gestures and movements that we have practised and using the puppets that they have created.

To end up with the rhyme, the kids can complete a sheet where they have to look at four pictures, cut them out and glue them in the correct order of appearance in the rhyme.

THE SUN AND TE WIND ( MARÍA LOURDES GARCÍA)

 Title: The Sun and the wind, from a fable by Aesop.For the first Level of Primary education.

1.- During some days we were working the words about weather and clothes: such as sunny, cold, hot, cloudy, windy, coat, jacket, hat, sunglasses, trousers, shirt, skirt and shoes.
2.-The children worked that vocabulary with different activities: soup of letters, fill in the blanks, a reading comprehension, listening to a song, match the pictures to the words.
3.- I will present this story at the end of the unit. I will give them some pictures of the sun, the clouds, the wind, it's hot and it's cold.They could colour and cut out them, then, they will stick the pictures to a stick, like a lollipop. That is going to be the part of the dramatization for the whole class. On the another hand, a volunteer can do the play of the man, who is walking wearing a coat and a hat.
4.- They will watch the story at the PDI. Then, we can do the role play in front of the video. This is the link https://youtu.be/0GGvRtuxglM
5.- At the beginning, all the pupils are moving their lollipops of the weather.
_When the wind started to blow. I'm the strongest, it said. ( Only the wind, they are moving the pictures)
_Do you see that man wearing a hat over there?
_The man catches the hat with both hands.
_Do you see that man wearing a coat over there? ( the sun is talking and the children who have the sun can move it)
_The man takes off the coat, because it is very hot.
_So, the sun wins. ( the pupils with the sun pictures are very happy)
That is going to be my activity using drama in the classroom for this week.

WE ARE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT (ALMUDENA GARCÍA)

 I choose "We are going on a bear hunt" story for Kindergarten (5 years old). Children listen to the story in assembly or the teacher tells the story singing.

Then I give them some flashcards with the key vocabulary of the story and when the teacher tells the story the second time they have to raise them or they can act out miming and doing the gestures and sounds and place the flashcard in the poster.
After that, children make binoculars with toilet paper rolls and a rope and we listen to this song from super simple songs: https://youtu.be/5_ShP3fiEhU
We line up and we walk around the classroom with our binoculars. We can also make a cave with brown roll paper in the classroom to make it more real.
We can colour or make a "map"with colored paper with the main words of the story: river, bridge... in next sessions and act out.

TEN FRISKY ANIMALS ( MARÍA JOSÉ GARCÍA)

 Song: "Ten Frisky Animals"

I will introduce the animals topic by asking the students which animal is their favourite. Previously, I will have prepared flashcards with the animals and produce the sound of each. Later, after having practised several times, I will just mime or produce the sound so as the students elicit the animal.
Then, every 2-3 students will be assigned an animal and they will create/imagine the previous moments to get to the pool and write the dialogue.
On a different session, students will act out their dialogue previous to the pool and the part of the pool.So, little by little all will be using TPR at the same time that they are singing the song ( practising phonics, entonation, rhyme and rhythm).
Finally, a book will be made out of the enriched story, story created by the whole class.

THE GAME OF THE BUS ( ARANTZAZÚ FERNÁNDEZ)

 There are many activities that I would choose as for example: The story of the rooster,or the game of the bus but as I work with teenagers I would choose the story of goldilocks and the three bears.

I like the idea of preparing the activity by doing a poster to advertise the play, and also give them money and to sell the tickets but I would have to adapt the story to their age so here is where changing the characters fits better, that way the main character could be 13 years old and not a young girl and she could meet a family of vampires or whatever they like best.
First we would write the scrip, second they would act and afther that we could do any other follow up activity to keep them speaking and to work with the new vocabulary they have learnt.

COCK A MOO MOO (ELENA DE DOMINGO)

 My favourite story was 'Cock a moo moo'. I will use it in class with my students because I teach English in the first course of Primary Education. I will first tell them the story orally without the book so they can imagine the story. The second time I will tell them the story with puppets and a background that I made before. And the last time I will do it with the book and the students have to made the sounds of the animals while I'm telling it. At the end, we could do a brain stormy orally changing the end of the story and a minibook writing and drawing all the characters that appears in the book.

FIVE LITTLE DUCKS ( TATIANA CASTRO)

 My favourite rhyme was "five little ducks" for my class in presschool in 4 years old.My objectives will be :to learn numbers (1-5)and number order,,colours(yellow,red,green,blue and orange) and spring theme(flowers,tree,lake,..).

Start by reading the book Five Little Ducks by Pamela Paparone to my kids.After I read the story, introduce the kids to the concept of using their hands and fingers to act out the rhyme,hence the name fingerplay.Practice the rhyme daily for few days until kids are become familiar with it.

Then ,they will watch the video "Five little Ducks On the Pond" in You tube.
Then, they will draw their favourite duck and I write the numbers 1-5 in each picture.Then they have to put the ducks in order according each number.Children can walk slowly over the ducks,counting,saying the next numer as the child steps on each new duck.

I could add variety or the children who ready for more of a challenge,they can hop or jump from one number next,Additionally, the numbers could be placed on the floor, in close proximity, out of order. Then can step or hop from 1, to 2,find 3, and so on.

Finally ,I could make a duck puppet with paper and sticks ,then they will try telling the rhyme and act it.They could make duck with plastiline too!They will enjoy while they learning and acting too!