THE VERY HUNGRY CARTERPILLAR

ACTIVITIES - The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

1. Whatch this video to learn the days of the week. 

2. Read the story: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

3. Watch a video about the life cycle of a butterfly.

4. Arrange the following drawings about the life cycle of the butterfly.

5. Draw your own butterfly and color it.

6. Match each animal with its corresponding food. Then color it.

7. Answer the following questions: What did the caterpillar eat on monday? and on wednesday? and what did the caterpillar eat on sunday?

8. Draw the following foods: a strawberry, an apple, a lollipop and a piece of chocolate cake. Color it. 

REALIZADO POR:

Patricia Domínguez e Irene Del Pozo

Mr Page´s Pet Shop (Activities)

To introduce the story of MR PAGE´S PET SHOP we start with animal related activities. 

Introduction activity. First we will sit in a circle on the floor together and get back a different questions to introduce the topic of animals.


- Have you got any pet at home?

- Have you ever been in a pet shop?

- What kind of animals can be found in a pet shop?

The teacher also introduces the new pet for the class. All the children must look after the pet.  We will discuss our rabbit care needs. From my point of view is a very interesting activity for children to learn the importance of caring for animals having a real one in our classroom. 


Activity 1. We will listen to a song to help children associate each sound with your particular animal.

The song is as follows: THE ANIMAL SOUNDS SONG. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6kssBH6rPo



After hearing the song, the teacher will distribute differents animal masks. Each child should make the sound of the animal that he has had. 

For example... 

Activity 2. Then the class will be divided into groups to work together. They will perform an activity where children have some cards of animals and sounds and they have to match each animal with its corresponding sound.


Activity 3. We'll play a game on farm animals. The website is as follows: 

http://www.kbears.com/farm/

In this website the children can learn the sounds of the animals which we can find in a farm. And the can also learn  some features of these animals.
children learn through play.


Activity 4. We will listen a farm animals song for kids. 

Then we will do some activities related to animals and their food. 

Activity 5. I will introduce the topic of animals and their food for a video on the main needs of the animals. 

Activity 6. Children groups also have some cards of animals and cards of food. Children have to match each with its corresponding animal food.


Activity 7. Another interesting and motivating activity is to distribute to each group some foods and children should draw the animal concerned. For example a banana, then they have to draw a monkey. 


Mr Page´s pet shop: 

Finally we return the story of Mr Page's pet shop. I will tell the story with the help of children. Each group will make the sound of an animal. 
They will make the sound YUM YUM! if their animal likes this food or YUK YUK! if their animal does not like this food. 



(Actividad individual). 

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Charlie Bucket is a little boy who lives with his family in a tiny and poor house. In his home there are only two rooms and one bed for all of them. 

Charlie´s father is the only who has a job in his family. He works in a toothpaste factory. The Charlie´s family  don´t have enough money to buy a lot of food, for example they have always for breakfast bread and margarine, bailed potatoes for lunch and cabbage soup for dinner. The same everyday. So all of them have a horrible empty feeling in their tummies. 

Charlie is very hard-working and he tries to help his family but the only thing he wants desperately is chocolate. 

Every morning in the way to school he sees a huge Chocolate Factory and he can smell the chocolate. 
In his birthday he only wants one thing, a tablet of chocolate. His grand-father bought a chocolate´s tablet for Charlie´s birthday and all the family were eating it during the week. 

(Actividad realizada con: Sandra González).

ZOG (choosing the best storybook)

This story which is called ``ZOG´´ is a good and interesting book for children. 


It is good because it has a lot of pictures. These pictures can help children to better follow and understand the story. The pictures have a lot of colours that attract much attention from children. 

In addition the characters are dragons which attract the attention of children too and encourages children´s imagination. 

The sentences are short and simple story. On the other hand the vocubulary is difficult, but children can understand the vocabulary from context and images.

The CD can help to improve the pronunciation of the words and make the story more interesting. 

This book repeats some words like ``fully grown´´. This is good because they can learn the words by repeating. 

It is a half-length story.. It is easier for children to pay attention to the story because isn´t very long. 

Also teaches very positive values.  In the end of the story instead of fight, the dragon saves the princess and she comes back with the prince because she wants to be a doctor. 

It is a really funny story and the children will enjoy and learn a lot. 



(Actividad realizada con: Patricia Domínguez).