Lesson Planing - Shake Your Body

"Jack and the Beanstalk" (Reader)

Teaching reading (Mice)

Create activities for reading skills.

1. Skimming:

- What is the story about? Write in one or two lines.

2. Scanning:

- Write a characteristic from each mouse (only one).

3. Reading between the lines:

- Where does the third mouse live?

4. Predicting:

- Try to guess: weight, the size, how long they life and what they eat.

5. Intensive reading:

- Answer the questions: How long dos it live?

                                                Which/what high does it reach, for each jump?

                                                Which kind of food can it eat?

                                                Where does it live?

                                                What is the biggest size that Dormous has?

6. Guessing meaning from the context:

Guess the meaning from the context of: grams, months, cables and eggs.

Art in class.

The teacher will show these paintings to the children, in which the topic is traditional games. It is a good way to show them how culture was in their country in the past. That will help the, to be aware of the changes that have happened in their country. Making a comparison between hoe the came was in the past and how is it nowadays.

Now, all the children will play to “Gallinita Ciega” and “Cinquillo”. In the first game, one child will cover his/her eyes with a blinker and all the kids have to move around in order to be catch. If the “hen” grabs on of his/her classmates, he/she would have to figure out who that person is. In the second game, the children will have to put the card number five on the table, and then they will have to follow the numbers up and down. The winner is the one that runs out of cards first.

La Gallina Ciega
Francisco Goya, 1789

Los Jugadores de Naipes
Francisco Goya, 1789