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Storytelling : The old man's mitten |
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This idea came out during the visit in our school of Anna, a teacher of a primary school in London, with which two classes, Luca's and mine, are "twinned" with the European action "e - twinning". With this school and others Iqbal Masih school applied for a new Comenius project for 2008/2010. Anna is a very active teacher and in our third class told a story she used in her second class. Children liked the story very much and some days after we run a short activity about the mitten paola arduini |
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Lesson plan Objectives b- Listening improving listening abilities through stories read by the teacher, being able to understand orders and decoding a set of no verbal messages, being able to guess the meaning of the words in contest, miming words and sentences read by somebody else finding details listening to a description ( in the flash cards)
c- Speaking ability: being able to remember, repeat and use adjectives, nouns and structures, questions and answers in the story ( I am... May I live here? - yes you can) being able to mime and dramatize actions with the help of the body language, 5- CONTENTS a-Verbs of movements, onomatopeic sounds and verbs b-Colours, action verbs, animals, adjectives, etc
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The Old Man's
Mittens
Once upon a time there was an old man and his black and white spotty dog. They were walking in the crunchy snow in the forest. The old man dropped his mitten. After a while munch crunch mouse scuttled into the mitten where it was nice and cosy. "Mmm I think I'll live here" she squeaked. Then up jumped hop stop frog. "Who are you?" squeaked Munch Crunch mouse. "I am hop stop frog may I live here?" "Yes you can". Then fleet feet rabbit hopped into the mitten. "Who are you?" said the others. "I am fleet feet rabbit, may I live here?" "Yes you can" they all said.Then smily wily fox padded up to the mitten, "Who are you?" they all asked. "I am smily wily fox, may I live here? "Yes you may" they all said. Next howly prowly wolf stalked up to the mitten. "I am going to live here" he said, and he did. Later grumbly rumbly bear rolled up to the mitten. Suddenly the old man and the dog came back. The animals heard the dog bark and ran and hid in the forest. So the old man picked up his mitten and that was the end of that. |
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Description of activity Anna told the story to the class. After some days the class in the computer lab found the story in the London school web site. They read it and then the teacher prepared a copy to each one. Before giving the copies around, Helen, the Comenius assistant, a Welsh girl, read again the story in class, while the class teacher mimed all the animals movements. After that the children had their stories and they tried to read it again, with the help of Helen. In the second part of the lesson the children divided in groups and acted the story again. They learnt the simple structures of question and answer and acted the story with lot of enthusiasm In the second lesson teacher gave around drawings of the animals of the story. Helen, the Comenius assistant, read some details of their body using the structure " I've got a long tail".. "I've got big ears" and the children had to guess the animal. After this they coloured the pictures and realized drawings of the story. In the third lesson they copied a poem about the mitten and realized new pictures.
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The Mitten
in the Snow A ________
squeezes in. Help us please
so we won't freeze. |
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