I CAN TELL IT

CAN YOU TELL IT? 

If you are one of my 4^th year Primary Teacher Training Students (Bilingual Group) partners, I am very sure you and I CAN TELL IT!

First of all I have to say that I am very proud of all of you but especially of all the members of my group. We worked hard for this project, and the result could not be any better!

At first sight, it might look a crazy idea, because in the same workshop we must include a fairy tale to motivate students to keep reading, some ICT activities, nine children and 20 minutes to develop everything! But…No, it isn’t crazy… I CAN TELL IT! And you will tell it too if you KEEP READING! 

My group was composed by nine girls and our fairy tale was that classic one called Three little pigs! We thought of it because the story is very simple, short and it teaches a meaningful moral value.

The children who came to participate in our workshops, were from 2^nd year Primary Children from Daoiz y Velarde State school. They were told at school, that a Boring Wizard blew all the pages of books. Therefore, the fairy tales characters forgot their identity. So the goal of these smart students was helping them (or us) to remember who they (or we) were by retelling the story again.

To contextualize the story and to give the students some clues, we decorated our classroom as if it was a forest. As you can see in the picture, we pasted colorful flowers, birds, butterflies and leaves on the walls.  We also, included some grass and a big tree with a poster which said that the Wolf was being wanted. Moreover, we played some forest environment music.

First, Lucía, Carla and I (the Three little pigs) sang a song describing us and ending with the question: Who are we?, the pupils were supposed to answer  (and they all did it): a piiiiiig! And then, we said: yes…a pig, but we are, 1, 2, 3…so we are… and they said: The three little pigs! Right after that, we pointed to the poster, and described the wolf, and asked them who he was. They, again, said: the wooolf, so we asked them if he was good or bad. When they said that he was bad, the wolf entered and they all got a little scared of him… (They were just so cute…)This idea of making a dialogue was inspired in what we learnt last year with Omar de la Cruz. 

Here you can see the song I just told you about:

Did you like it?

When the wolf left, the students, helped the three little pigs to remember the whole story. We designed three different activities with a free and useful program called Edelim. We learned how to use it in 1^st course with Inmaculada Tello. The activities were about matching pictures and putting them in order. You can see them below:

Then, in groups, they had to build the house of one pig (As it is showed in the picture) and invent another end in order to not letting the wolf destroy their houses. For this activity, we included some friends: a fairy, a mouse and a lion. Finally the students all had very good ideas, and the three little pigs were safe in their own houses, from the Big bad wolf! 

To end the activity, we played and sang the song again and dance all together with the children. We could see that pupils enjoyed it very much, which made us be happy and proud of our job. I do not have a video of this to show you, but I have another video in which you will see many of my classmates dancing our song during the break! 

TAKE CARE MY READERS!