Storytelling 2

Hello dear listeners, the storytelling of that yesterday we were talking parea adding activities performed before and after the story. In this way children grasp concepts better.

PRE-TELLING ACTIVITY

“THE COLOUR SONG”

Organization

-      Whole class

Material

-     Coloured pieces of cardboard: blue, yellow, purple, pink, black, grey, green, orange, white and red.

Procedure

Before telling the story we show the children a song in order familiarize them with the name of the different colours that they are going to listen during the narration. The song is as follows:

“Red, orange, blue and green, blue and green.

Red, orange blue and green, blue and green.

Black, white, grey, purple yellow and pink.

Red, orange blue and green, blue and green.”

The lyrics have been adapted to the melody of “Head, shoulders, knees and toes” song, which can be listened in the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxphoOOwTbo

Firstly, pieces of cardboard of different colours are given to the students and, at the same time, those same colours are exposed in the whiteboard. The idea is to sing the song asking them to raise their colour as it is named. The colours in the whiteboard are a support for the teacher, who can point them in order to make it easy to follow the song.

POST-TELLING ACTIVITIES

“TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL”

Organization

-      Whole class

Material

-     Big black piece of cloth with five holes to put the faces in

Procedure

Previously, during the storytelling, the teacher introduces the feelings as they appear in the story. In order to do it, he or she uses an elephant face with a hole in the middle to show his or her different feelings through the face expressions.

After telling the tale, making use of a big black piece of cloth with five holes, children have to put inside their faces to work feelings. The teacher calls them in groups of five and whispers each of them the feeling they have to show to their classmates. Then they have to guess how they are or who is showing a specific feeling.

“PAINT YOUR ELMER MASK”

Organization

-      Individual

Material

-     Elephant mask made with white cardboard

-     Coloured finger paints

Procedure

The activity consists of a colour dictation in which children decorate their own mask.

Each student has an elephant mask made with white cardboard and finger paint of the different colours that have been worked in class. Following the teacher’s instructions, they have to pay attention and decorate their mask with fingerprints. For example: “Put your finger in the red colour. Now show me your red finger please. Ok! Fantastic! Now print three red points in Elmer. Come on, count with me: one, two and three.” This way, we can work numbers and colours. After dictating them various combinations of numbers and colours, the teacher allows the students to continue decorating freely their masks.