DRAMA: Shadow Puppets Performance. The little red hen.

Here is the video Laura, Alba and me have prepared for our drama lesson using our shadow puppets to represent "The little red hen" story. Hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q9O_IrEdfE

And now you can see some pictures from the making of:

DIDÁCTICA: Writing activity

For this activity, we decided to use the Velazquez famous painting "Las Meninas".

After showing the children the painting and giving to them a short explanation about Velázquez and this painting, we will create at the blackboard two big tables. In one of them the children will have to write which things can they see in the painting that are painted from a certain colour.

The children will make the same but this time with numbers, so that they will have to count how many things can they see at the painting and write them down.

DRAMA: From head to toe

On January, my group (Alba and Laura) and me, will present to our classmates the story-based unit that we have create for the Eric Carle book "From head to toe".

We have chosen to represent in class the activities we think that will be more atractive for them, so they will have to do different things such as: singing, dancing, mimics, making a puzzle, colouring and classifying.

We hope they will enjoy them! 

DRAMA: The Kangaroo from Woolloomoollo

The 1st of December, my group (formed by Alba de Julio, Laura Pinheiro and me) presented to our fellows the story-based unit called "The Kangaroo from Woolloomoollo".

Here you can see the slides we prepared for it:

DRAMA: Puppets Workshop

I have really enjoyed this workshop, we have learnt how to create different kind of puppets and they are all quite simple so we could prepare them with small children. 

We started with our first puppet and I decided to create a minion from the movie "Gru". Here you can see the process:

We continue creating a shock puppet:

And then I decided to create a pig shadow puppet. This kind of puppets can stimulate children creativity and they are really easy to do. You just need pencils, card and paper, scissors, glue, thin sticks and drawings from the characters of the story. Here you can see my pig and how to use it as a shadow puppet:

To finish, I created an origami puppet. This one is the easiest to do, you just have to fold the paper in half several times and then you have to put your fingers in it and make your puppet talk.

For my own I have decided to create a face on a finger, and here is the result:

DRAMA: Reader

THE SELFISH GIANT