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view "experiential", in which the child is an active participant of the same, creating chances and living activities for the autumn: experiencing, creating and manipulating
CONTEXT
A PRESCHOOL CLASS KRTEK/MOLE IS THE TRAVEL BUDDY SQUIRREL, MOUSE, HEDGEHOG AND RABBIT
TIME
October & November Key dates: Halloween: 31st October Magosta: 9th November (in Spain) Day with less cars: 30 noviembre (walking around the neighbourhood with a podometre: sum up the metres we all walk)
OBJECTIVES:
Sing various songs related to autumn Learn and recite poems. Feel the rhythm and rhyme to enjoy poetry Understand the meaning of the vocabulary of the poem and the subject in general Understand the meaning of some words contained in the poem and related to the autumn, well enough to play and follow instructions Expand vocabulary referring to autumn. Follow simple instructions. Express likes and dislikes
Understand changes in Nature Collect things related to the forest to tell the class about them Be able to express likes and dislikes
OBJECTIVES
Recognize climate changes differentiating between overcast days, sunny, hot or mild. Describe, using images, the climatic autumn landscape. Know the proper clothing for this season. Recognize typical autumn fruits and their characteristics. Select and classify the different fruits making groups. Differentiate sounds, silence and noise produced by objects or natural phenomena (leaves, wind, rain, nuts ...) Experiment with different techniques to produce works of art. Know and identify fall colors: yellow, brown and orange. Experiment with colors by mixing
CONTENTS
Identification of environmental characteristics. Recognition and differentiation of autumn fruits. Vocabulary of rainwear. Understanding of changes in Nature Description of climate and landscape in autumn. Identification and recognition of images, drawings and photographs. Identification of autumn colors: yellow, brown and orange. Experimentation with the autumn colors. Development of a mural of autumn. Using different materials in artistic productions. Sound sources: recognition of noise and environmental sounds. The Magosta. Autumn riddles.
Pre-teaching activities
Warm-up (CIRCLE TIME): checking previous
knowledge about the topic (using mother tongue) while sharing some nuts Introducing vocabulary:
what can you see, guess what is this book about, can you tell a colour that appears on the cover
ACTIVITIES
Recognition
of natural phenomena: during the assembly we talk about the weather (cold, rain, wind ...) and the clothes we need in each case. We take dry leaves falling from trees and observe their colours, shapes and textures. We play with autumn leaves, we tread on them to see how they sound, what happens, how they fly ...
ACTIVITIES
Make a mural with different art techniques: paint with wax sheets, autumn colours, and glue them together on a big paper. Chop in black cardboard trees, fruits and autumn leaves and paste it on the wall. Make an autumn mobile using branches, leaves and autumn fruits to decorate the classroom. We see the fruits of autumn, we compare, we taste them. We sort autumn fruits to do different classifications. We learn Autumn poems and songs. We make an ornament for the head to wear the day of Magosta. Celebrate La Magosta" with the whole school, eat chestnuts, sang songs and danced (Spain)
Follow-up activities
Go on a walk to the forest to collect fruits, leaves, pebbles... Make an autumn box and tell about it: touch something in
the box and guess what it is without seeing. Art and craft work:
give the squirrel a nice furry-curly tail and draw its footprints around the tree with finger paint (have the photocopies ready beforehand) Build a walnut shell boat Make a musical instrument to play when singing the song (the day before the children should be asked to bring plastic bottle caps to class) Make a poster using autumn fruits and leaves
chestnuts, walnuts, pumpking Cut, squeeze, crack, grind: see how everything changes Taste the fruits and clasify: sweet/acid Cut apples into shapes to stamp on a piece of paper (a traffic light or traffic signs would be a great subject)
time where you live? What do you like doing in autumn? Next time you are in the countryside why not collect some of the things you find on the ground in a special 'autumn box'? Then tell us all about your autumn box collection.
ASSESSMENT
Participation Collaboration Vocabulary: animals and fruits in the forest in
autumn (I CAN NAME I CAN RECOGNIZE) Oral interaction: I LIKE --------ING Art work TPR Self-assessment Class evaluation
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Children are able to
Recognize autumn typical fruits and their characteristics Recognize climate changes. Difference between a cloudy day, sunny, warm or temperate. Know the proper clothing for this season. Expand its vocabulary referring to autumn. Sing different songs themselves fall. Describe, using images, the climatic and autumn landscape. Correctly classify the various fruits of autumn. Difference sounds, silence and noise produced by objects or natural phenomena (leaves, wind, rain, nuts ...) Meet and identifies fall colors: yellow, brown and orange. Correctly use different art techniques. Enjoy the mix of colors.
Resources
Story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/pencil/so und.shtml Book: Jabberwocky and other poems Toy squirrel, feathers, nuts, nutshells... Paper and cardboard, crayons, glue, finger paint Photocopies:
IWB
of the poem Ask the children to imitate your gestures In turns the children take the squirrel up and down the tree while you are reading the poem
star (karaoke version) Ask them to repeat verse by verse, then stanza by stanza TPR: Ask the children to sing along and do the actions
FLASHCARDS
INTERESTING LINKS
Music: Twinkle, twinkle, little star:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZCSQbGeTo8 Game: BC games for ELT: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/funwith-english/nut-hunt Story: The Gruffalo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzMa_dJGpJ4& feature=related Nutcrackers: http://nutstocrack.blogspot.com La Ardilla Cotilla http://ardillacotilla.blogspot.com