I CAN TELL IT!

How are you?

I am going to write my post about the activities created with Disney characters last week.

We had to help children of eight and nine years old comming from a bilingual school to retell popular fairy tales using ICT.

Our group decided to choose ''SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS''.

Our fairy tale character was Patri, she was a coordinator who had to look after children during the activity.

We thought that it could be a good idea if we and the pupils dressed up to involve them in the story, therefore, Inma was the witch, kike was the prince, children were the dwarfs and I was Snow White.

We made paper caps which were representing the wool hats of the dwarfs and small posters with the names of the dwarfs to put up in the children's necks, on this way they knew who they were and what roles had.

Also, the decoration of the class was based on the Disney environment with pictures of the characters and the disposition on the chairs in a semi-circle to provide them confidence and security.

Firstly, we started with the presentations:

I am Snow White and he is my prince                                                        Do you know who is she?

Our first activity was a puzzle, it consisted on organizing some principal images of the story which we had selected before. We chose two volunteers to complete the puzzle and assistants to replace the volunteers if they did not know how to put the pictures.

In the second activity, we created a powerpoint with images of the story, students had to imitate the principal pictures with gestures while they were following the story, we could get their motivation.

The last activity was a contest, we divided students in two groups, A and B, each group had to answer some questions related to the topic, if one group did not know the answer, the other group had the opportunity to respond.

It was an assessment activity to know if pupils had understood and acquired the contents of the topic.

From my point of view, it was amazing!. We had the possibility to spend time teaching students of a funny way.

Sometimes, teachers explain us a lot of theory which we know that it is essential to have knowledge and culture, but also, it is necessary to put in practice the contents which we have learnt, I consider that it is a way to get on with students, therefore it is important create more activities like it.

What do you think?

BYE BYE!!