Storytelling: "Peace at Last"

Peace at Last was written by Jill Murphy and it is a funny story in which Mr Bear can´t fall asleep due to the noises around him.

The reasons why I decided to choose this book were:

- First of all, in my opinion I think it is an excellent and amusing book, so for that reason I am sure that children will like too.

- Also because there is a lot of repetitive text and it´s very useful for children because they can predict what is going to happen and they will understand better.

- On the one hand, the ilustrations are big and well-done and they explain perfectly the story without reading it.

- With this book, teachers can work for instance the vocabulary of the members of the family (mum, dad, baby,...) and also the sounds that some objects and animals make in our real life such as: people snoring among others.

- To sum up, this book is very suitable for children between 3 and 6 years old.

Didactic unit: The very hungry caterpillar

Activities before reading:

- Related to food: First of all, we will give them a box that contains different types of food (healthy and unhealthy food), so they have to choose which one of them are healthy and unheathy food.

 

- Related to de ICT: Then we are going to create a puzzle using the ICT, because from our point of view it´s a very motivation activity and children in general like the technology.

 

- Related to the Life-cycle of the butterfly: We will give them a photocopy in which appears the life -cycle of the butterfly, and then they will have to paint it. It´s a good way for them to understantd better the story that we will read.

 

Activities while reading:

 

- Related to the numbers and colors: While we read the story, I will ask them some questions about the numbers that appear in the book such as How many pears did the caterpillar eat?

 

- Related to predictions: We will ask some questions such as What´s going to happen?

 

Activities after reading:

 

- Related to the explanation: We will ask them some questions so we will see if they understand something of this process such as: What did you learn? Dou you like the story? What´s was your favorite part?

 

- Related to drama: They will create some costumes of the different animals and food that appear in the story and then they will perfomance with our help.

 
Produced by: María Racionero García and Lorena Seco Molinero.