Despicable Me

It is important to work with the children's relationships with their friends and family. The movie is about a lonely man, who gets to know three children and his life changes.

Pre-teaching

In the pre-teaching we do an interactive activity in which we have to show trust to the other person. So we're going to divide the children into pairs. One person in each pair gets blindfolded and the other has to guide the person. Then the roles are changed. Afterwards the students explain how they felt while they were blindfolded. The teacher writes their feelings on the blackboard. 

In the end we will sit on the floor in a circle and talk about how important it is to trust eachother, and that we as humans need to be with other people.

Teaching

Watch the film Despicable Me.  If there's not enough time to watch the whole movie we can watch only certain parts of it.

Post-teaching

In the post-teaching the students can work with the ICT, for example on Glogster.

The children can choose some images and a video from the movie and they can write about it.

Class activities

There have been interesting activities for this literature course.

Supermarket

How can we teach the different types of fruits to the children?

At the university we spoke about the correct method of teaching English.  For teaching the fruits we can make the fruits and the money with colours, papers etc.

Also  the teacher must explain the vocabulary that the children need.

The children can imagine that they are in a supermarket. The teacher can divide the children into two groups, one group is the customers and the other group is the cashiers. The customers can ask the cashiers the prices of the different fruits.

                                                                 

Dictionary

At the university we talked about creating a class dictionary. This is a good way for the children to learn and remember the glossary that we are teaching.

If the children are small, we can draw an image  and write the word for it. It is a good idea that the children make their own dictionary.

Chocolate cake

I've seen this video in class, This is a simple story, and it is very funny because Michael Rosen who is  telling it is very expressive. The story is about a mother who makes a fantastic chocolate cake. At night the child is very hungry, and he eats the chocolate cake. The next morning his mum gets very angry.

I recommend  the following video:  

Literature book

I want to share with all of you the book that my teacher recommended in the first class of literature. The book is called 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom. The author of the book is Carol Read.

In the first unit we have read and done interesting activities. In these activities you can learn  how to teach the literature in an optimal way, taking into account the age of the learners.

From my perspective the recommended book is ideal for this topic, and in my opinion  I would  have liked to use the book more.

I think the book is very interesting and we can learn fun methods for teaching literature.

Monsters University!

We are going to see a small part of the Monsters University film, because it is a funny film and many children like this film. But before that we are going to look at the emotions.

The following activities are designed for children between 7 and 8 years.

Pre-teaching

The objective is to teach the various types of emotions with the students. The material that we need is emotions or feelings flashcards .

Activity: Guess the emotions


The teacher  distributes the flashcards to the students. Each student has a flashcard. The teacher chooses one person and he/she should imitate the image of the flashcard in order for the other teammates to guess the emotion.

With this activity the students can demonstrate their creativity.


Teaching


Now it's time to watch a video. Children must choose a character and watch the different expressions and emotions that appear in the video.

Post-teaching

Finally we can do an interesting activity. The students have to create their own monster!

We can use the Voki web page! (http://www.voki.com/create.php)
The students can choose a monster and they can add a voice, a background etc. They must investigate!

After that we can describe their monsters.

RAINBOW

Our objective is that children learn the differents colours of the rainbow.

Pre-teaching

Music is a good way to motivate kids to learn the colours of the rainbow!

This is a song about the rainbow. We can listen and sing the rainbow song.

Teaching




 I like  this book a lot. It's perfect for 3-year-old children. Ned is the main character. He loves  the rainbow. He wears nice rainbow pyjamas! But he is a little sad because he has never seen a rainbow. One day a beautiful rainbow appears. Look it is a rainbow! He is very, very happy.

Ned runs up to the rainbow and he tries to reach the colours but they are too high for him. He is so sad, but the next day he finds a painted rainbow on his bedroom wall. And that makes him happy again.





Post- teaching


For the post-teaching we can paint a rainbow on an image of a t-shirt, and then cut it out of paper.


We  need:

•  An image of a T-shirt 
• Finger paint
• Scissors

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Little Red Riding Hood is a traditional story that children love.



Pre-teaching

In the pre-teaching, we want the children to learn some vocabulary like the parts of the body, some animals etc.

The teacher has a picture of the Little Red Riding Hood with the words that we want to teach,

The teacher can ask:
Where are the eyes/ the mouth of Little Red Riding Hood? And the children must point at the eyes, the mouth etc.

Teaching

It's time for the story. The teacher tells the story.

Here is a video of Little Red Riding Hood.

Note

When the teacher tells the story, she or he can show a real basket with real food.

Post-teaching

In the post teaching we want the children to remember the vocabulary of the various parts of the body, and the different types of food. For example: 

The teacher has a basket and she shows it to the children  and she/he can ask:

• What is this? This is an apple. And we can see the apple with our eyes
• What are these? These are flowers. Smell the flowers. We can smell with our nose. 
• What is this? This is a cake. Taste the cake. We can eat it with our mouth. 

Finally, the children can paint their favourite characters: 

THE VAIN LITTLE MOUSE

This story, The Vain Little Mouse, is about a pretty mouse, who meets some animals, but she doesn't like them. In the end she meets a handsome cat but,  what will happen?

         

I  have prepared some activities for children of 4 years.

Pre-teaching: 

The teacher must show the children who are the characters of the story. 

For example, she can show different animal toys such as the mouse, the rooster, the dog, the pig, the cat. 

The teacher can ask some questions about these animals: 

What colour is the mouse? 

Is the mouse big or small? 

Teaching:

It's time for the story:

Once upon a time, there was a little mouse who was very vain.

One day, the little mouse was sweeping her little house when suddenly she saw something shining on the floor, a gold coin. The little mouse picked it up from the floor and began to think what she would buy with the coin. 

"I know, I'll buy some sweets, oh no, my teeth will ache. Then I'll buy some cakes, oh no, my tummy will ache, I know I'll buy a pink lace for my tail." 

The little mouse put the coin in her pocket and went to the market. Once in the market, she asked the shopkeeper for a piece of his best red tape. She bought it and went back home. 

The following day, when the vain little mouse woke up, she put her lace on her tail and went out onto the balcony of her house. At that moment, a rooster appeared and said to her: 

"Little mouse, little mouse, you who are so beautiful, would you marry me?"

And the little mouse answered: 

"I don't know, I don't know. Which noise do you make at night?"

And the rooster said: 

"cock-a-doole-do."

"Oh no, I wont marry you because I don't like the noise that you make."

The rooster went and a dog appeared: 

"Little mouse, little mouse, you who are so beautiful, would you marry me?"

And the little mouse told him:

"I don't know, I dont know, which noise do you make at night?"

"Woof woof"

"Oh no, I wont marry you because that noise frightens me."
The dog went out and a pig appeared. 

"Little mouse, little mouse, you who are so beautiful, would you marry me?"

And the little mouse said to him: 

"I don't know, which noise do you make at night?"

"Oink, oink."

"Oh no, I wont marry you bacause that noise is very rude." 

The pig went out and a cat arrived saying to the little mouse:

"Little mouse, little mouse, you who are so beautiful, would you marry me?"



And the little mouse said to him:
" I don't know, I dont know, which noise do you make at night?"
And the cat with a sweet and soft voice told her: 

"Miaow, miaow."

"Oh yes, I'll marry you because your voice is very sweet."
 So they got married, the vain little mouse and the cat with a sweet voice.
The two of them lived happily ever after and that's the end of the story.

Post-teaching:  

 Now we are going to imitate the differents animals: 

The teacher says: 

"Everybody is on the floor sleeping, and when you wake up, you are going to be a little mouse"

The children must imitate the mouse, its movements, and its sound. 

We repeat the activity using other animals, such as a pig, a dog etc.