READING ACTIVITIES:

MICE

Activities about reading technique

Skimming

1.      How many kinds of mice is the text talking about?

                            three                           five                        two

2.      Which is the smallest kind of mice?

pygmy mouse               jumping mouse         harvest mouse         dormouse

Scanning

1.      The jumping mouse has______back feet.

short                               long                    narrow

2.      Small dormice sleep for seven______every year.

nine                             seven              five

3.      The harvest mouse can_____very well.

eat                                climb                 fly

Intensive reading

1.  Read again about the jumping mouse and later draw it down and draw  their food.

Making inferences

1.      Who can sleep inside of a sock?

H_____         M______

2.      Which mouse can see a snowboarder?

H_____         M_______

3.      Who can touch the sky?

_______________

4.      If you were Julio Cesar which mice prefer to eat?

_______________

Predicting

Before reading the text we will ask some questions about mice:

1.What is a mouse?

Animal                        toy                             clothes

2.Have you ever seen some mouse? Where?

Film                 street                     home

3.How is it? (Length, colour,…)

4.Do you know some house mouse?  what kind of food do they eat?
where do they live? how are they? 

5.Do you know anohter object that is called mouse?

Contextual Guessing

1.      Match photos with words

Nest                      tail                  pets

 to Climb             back feet       to  eat

Other activities

1.      Match photos with words

Pygmy mouse                       jumping mouse

House mouse             harvest mouse          dormouse

Worked with:
  Patricia Dominguez, Irene del Pozo, y Cristina Vieco

PICTURE ACTIVITY

Aelita Andre is an Australian abstract artist at six years old.

I have choosen her because I think that kids can really identify with an artist of their same age. They can see that with their age they are able to make lot of things, and they can also make ART.


Aelita has already presentated her Art in different galleries all over the word, including New York.

Making abstract things is not difficult for children, they love painting and even that in some occasions is difficult to recognise what they meanted to draw, they perfectly know what they wanted to draw.

After talking  about Aelita and her art, each child we will make their own painting.


It is very important to explain them that they can make whatever they imagine, using everything they need in the way they pleasure.
Teacher will provide them with many different paint colours, and materiales, and she will ask them to bring things of their homes that they want to use for their pictures.

Once they finish their own painting and leave them get dry we will make a museum in class.


Each painter will have to presentate their own painting which has to have a name. They will have to talk about the materials they had used, and why had they used those, and whatever they want us to know about their ART.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- http://www.ehow.com/how_7865486_explain-abstract-art-children.html

- http://agoraartgalleryblog.com/the-prodigy-of-color-aelita-andre-a-solo-exhibition/

THE VERY HUNGRY CARTERPILLAR

Here you can watch a nice video of the story of the very hungry caterpillar represented with pupets. I think its a good resource to use with children after they have seen the book. If teachers think that learners are too young for understand everything, he/she can use the video support and adapt the text, dramatizating the dialogues 

- Draw lines to connect the food that the caterpillar eats each day: 

- Which of all this food is healthy and wich one isn´t it?

Teacher will ask children, one by one, for different food, and children will have to recognice the food and decide if it is healthy or unhealthy food. Once listened to what teachers asked for, they will have to go to the board, pick up the correct food and put it inside the correct box.

GOOD FOOD = HEALTHY                                                               BAD FOOD = UNHEALTHY

-"LIFE CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY"
We will use this video to discuss the stages of the caterpillar's life:

-Later we can use flashcards with the different steps of the butterfly life-cycle. Teacher can put them in a mess and ask children to reorganice them and put them in the correct order,

- Draw a picture about "The very hungry caterpillar" book: 
Later they will have to try to explain what have they draw, and why did decided to draw that.

Aliens Listening activity:

After listening

1.       Draw the aliens which you most like

 2. Put in order the different letters of the words that appear in the story.

DHEA___ ___ ___ ___






          H E A D

PPLURE___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

          P U R P L E

MAR___ ___ ___

           A R M

 
DRE ___ ___ ___

                    R E D

(Worked with Cristina vieco)

Analysing Zog´s book

Zog it’s a book from the creators of The Gruffalo, another fantastic story for children.

Zog is a dragon at Dragon´s school where he will live lots of aventures. Zog is a little dragon which children can feel identify.

I think that its a great story for using with children. The pictures are wonderful so child won´t feel lost, because if there is something they could not understand the pictures will help them a lot.

Maybe if we want to use this book for teaching english to young learners we should adapt some written parts, to make them more simple so children can be able to understand the story in  a better way.

Zog´s book is written in rhyming verse, using not very difficult ones, wich makes the story more funny for children. This can also help children to develop phonics skills.

Also we can use this book to teach other preschool lessons, considering that Zog will be a very motivating character for them.

Charlie and the chocolate factory

We had make a reader from the book "Charlie and the chocolate factory", a great story for telling to young learners:

Charlie Bucket is a little boy who lives with his family in a tiny and poor house. 

In his home there are only two rooms and one bed for all of them.

Charlie´s father is the only one who has a job in his family. He works in a toothpaste factory. Charlie´s family  don´t have enough money to buy too much food,  they have always have for breakfast bread and margarine, for lunch: bailed potatoes  and for dinner: cabbage soup .The same everyday.

So all of them have a horrible empty feeling in their tummies. 

Charlie is very hard-working and he tries to help his family but the only thing that he desperately wants  is chocolate.

Every morning in the way to school he sees a huge Chocolate Factory and he can smell the chocolate.

On his birthday, the only thing he wants was a chocolate bar. 

His grand-father bought a chocolate´s tablet for Charlie´s birthday and all the family were eating it during the week. 

(Worked with Irene del Pozo)