Take a breather, my reader

Good evening everybody! How are you? Are you ready to finish the classes? I don’t think so…

But, on the one hand, I am sure that the best is yet to come! 

Today I would like to talk about the “I Can Tell it” workshop we did last week with the pupils of the Daoiz and Velarde Bilingual School, of Alcalá de Henares. But, first of all, what did we pretend with this activity? And, why that name?

• -          Children were advised in their school that in the University there were lots of Fairy Tales characters that had lost their memory. This way, they didn’t remember who they were! So, children had to help them to memorise everything by playing games with them, singing songs, dancing, making puzzles…

• -          If you pay attention to the sentence I Can Tell it, you will see that if we link every capital letter of each word it will form ICT, which is an acronym that stands for Information Communications Technology. It is an useful resource that helps us to work with the new technologies.

Once the students were in the university, they had to pass through the different groups of tales that there were placed in the different classrooms.

  

  In my group we were María Salazar, Clara García, Natalia León, Andrea Sáez, Rocío Martínez, Sonsoles Torres, Carla Hernández, Marta Muñoz and me, and the Fairy Tale we chose was The Three Little Pigs. The main reason why we decided to choose this tale was generally, that most of us love that story, and as the children were from the first cycle, they were going to need repetition and an easy and familiar story.

  Now I am going to explain you what we did with the students.

  First of all, when they were inside the classroom, the three little pigs (Carla, Sonsoles and me) were singing the famous song of the film “Who is afraid of the big bad wolf?”, however, we made a little change with the lyrics, being this:

Look at this rounded nose, rounded nose, rounded nose

                    Look at this curly tail, curly tail, curly tail

                    Look at this little ears, little ears, little ears

     This is the representation of the song:

  As we didn’t remember who we were, after that song, the children had to help us to remember our identity. Once we knew who we were, we discovered a poster with the face of the big bad wolf, so we asked them if they knew who he was. 

  Then the wolf came in the classroom but he fast fell asleep in the floor. 
   
  After this, we used in the digital board the program JCLIC in order to make children use the new technologies and recreate the story of the Three Little Pigs through some activities.

  So we asked for some help to our friends: Mr. Lion, Miss Fairy and Miss Mouse, always with the help of the children. But there were a problem… our friends were sleeping, and there was only one method to wake them up, using the magic words: Please, please, please, help me, please! They would help us to win the big bad wolf!

  The students were divided in three groups: the straw house, the wood house and the brick house. So each pig, with the help of the students and one helper, had to rebuilt their houses and think in a plan to destroy the wolf. Finally, when they had detroyed the wolf, all together danced and sang our song!

  It was a relly funny activity, we enjoyed it a lot, and also the children. For me, it has been one of the best activities that we have done during all the career! I will always remember that day.

  Here you can see some pictures of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.

   I hope you liked it!! See you soon.