Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood, traditional fairy tale. (Session Two)

The stars of the story!

Main Target Vocabulary: not hugely specific! Facial features; verbs of movement: walk, run, talk. Family members: mother, grandmother. Wolf. General comprehension and enjoyment of a traditional story.

The plan:

Greeting: Sit in a circle and greet each child individually by name.

Song: The Rainbow Song (revision)

Tell Little Red: with small finger puppets.

Activity: Make a forest collage. Retell story using collage as a background

Song: Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (new)

(Make masks: Little Red, the wolf, the woodcutter.)

Ender: Sit in circle and say goodbye to each child individually.

Who came? 9 children: 15 months, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5

Our forest collage!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? Bill Martin Jr., Illustrated by Eric Carle

My edition: Boardbook, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1996

Main Target Vocabulary: animals, colours, same/ different

Session One

·      Ice-breaker: Sit in a circle and greet each child individually by name.

·      Read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? book with different voices and sound effects for each animal. Check out the author reading it himself on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHCYgO9zh8

I expressed surprised at the blue horse and the purple cat (isn’t that strange?!) and we laughed, but otherwise read it straight through so as not to lose the children’s attention. I tried to get my listeners to join in with the last page when the children list all the animals they see looking at them. They are non-natives with little to no exposure to English, so they joined in in Catalan: I read, “A yellow…?” with rising intonation and paused for them to fill in the animal, which they did in Catalan, I repeated the target word in English, and onto the next animal. For me, the most important thing is that the children enjoy the story and follow as much of it as they can, so if they’re participating, even in their own language, that’s great! A round of applause and “Bravo!” ends each activity.