I found some nice activities related to the video "We are going on a bear hunt" that I posted in the Unit 2 of EFL. I leave them here in case you can do this story in the school it would be niece to do this activities too!
PRE-TEACHING.
First of all, this activity is to learn the vocabulary that it's going to appear in the story, the children will have to cut and stick all the pieces and put their names below the image:
ACTUAL TEACHING.
POST-TEACHING.
Now, I'm going to publish two different options to work the sequence of the story, vocabulary and fine motor skills.
1.- The children will do their own book coloring, cutting and putting in order the bullets.
2.- The children will do something similar, but instead of a book they will do a craft with the pictures to tell the story, they will color, cut and stick in a cardboard the images in order:
If we're going to perform the story we can use the stage to teach the main words that appears in the play. For example, if we have a table with three bowls, we can print the words "cold", "hot", "nice" or "natural" and stick them in each bowl to reinforce then the vocabulary. And we can do the same with the chairs and the beds.
To catch the attention of the children we can start talking with them about their pets or their favorites animals. They love talk about their likes and experiences.
When we have their attention, we can prepare some images according to the page with the main words of the story (posted below) and work the vocabulary that we're going to find in the story.
ACTUAL TEACHING.
We can print the story, or use one of these two resources:
Hello everybody! Autumn is here! And, can you think a better way to welcome it that decorating our class like the season? So, that's what we have done. Take a look!
First of all, we drew a huge, bare tree; and the children painted it with finger paint:
Then, they made their own leaves with pieces of tissue paper and they stick them in our tree:
After that, they did their own autumn trees, and we paste them on windows.
Once the decoration was finished, we learnt a song:
In the school where I do my practices we work the content that we have to according to the age, but we develop at the same time different projects related to various topics. This time it was about Superheroes.
1.- The first activity that we did was about creating their own superheroe, with his own name, clothes, favourite food, pet, hobbies, fears, etc.
2.- After that we played the following video to learn a new song and give some ideas about the possible super powers they can have.
3.- We did a brainstorm to now what they think and which knowledges they have about superheroes.
4.- After that, we explained that some superheroes only go out at night. We took advantage of this to explain the concepts "day" and "night". We went to the nap room to live the "day" and the "night".
5.- Following the previous activity, we took the concept of "night" and we explained the different moon phases. And we did a worksheet related to this.
6.- To live the different moon phases, we did an activity with soap bubbles, and depending on how much you blow you got a different moon phase.
Although the end was inevitable, the kids enjoyed it a lot and they experienced the moon phases. Now each time that they wash their hands and do bubbles with the soap they say which phase is.
7.- We asked the children to bring some paperboard boxes to create a spaceship and a robot to send them to the space.
8.- In the space we have the moon, but we have too the planets and all this forms the solar system. So, we did a picture about the solar system:
9.- We played them a video related with the planets:
10.- We did a mural with the solar system:
11.- And we made our own planets with newspaper, recycling the paper:
12.- We did superheroes costumes for the kids and they had a meeting with a "real" superhero. (Using the whiteboard, we established connection with the concierge disguised like a superhero who spoke to them and said them to be good and help everyone they can, at home and to their friends at school).
13.- And finally, we sent the spaceship and the robot to the moon!
As you can see this project has a lot of activities, we did it in five weeks more or less, attending that it was a parallel project apart from the activities that we did everyday in class.
I hope you find it useful and you can use some ideas.
