Storie illustrate per la scuola di Kilindoni
St. Joseph Millenium Primary School
MAFIA ISLAND (TANZANIA)
i volontari Patrizia e Umberto aiuteranno gli studenti a produrre racconti illustrati, utilizzando anche i computer finanziati da Maisha Marefu Onlus
SUMMER SCHOOL PROJECT 2019
‘TELLING AND WRITING STORIES’
OBJECTIVES:
The main target of this school project is to make Kilindoni students experience the joyful, creative and liberating activity of telling and writing stories.
Despite the short time available the volunteers Patrizia Zampetti and Umberto Rognoni are going to help students produce illustrated short stories, which will be edited by using the computers financed by Maisha Marefu.
Once printed these small children books will be sold during the ‘Cena Solidalidale’ (fund raising dinner) which will take place on November 16thin order to support other future projects.
Age : 8/12
Learning objectives
- To learn new language items
- Grammar : use of the narrative tenses and time linkers
- Vocabulary related to people physical appearance, animals, landscapes, feelings.
- To express one’s feelings in front of other children. To become aware of one’s feelings.
- To encourage interaction among children and between the children and the teacher
- To develop the skill of predicting a story
- To get the knowledge about different cultures
- To make the class a small community
- To create a book of short illustrated stories edited by ‘Kilindoni St.Joseph School ‘ with the support of Maisha Marefu
Methodology: group / pair / class work
Communicative interactive method based on repetition and sound patterns.
STAGES
Step 1 : inspiring
- The teacher starts telling stories or anecdotes of his/her personal life
- The teacher uses nursery rhymes and singing
- The teacher uses words and props to spur predictions from children, box with items.
- The teacher uses pictures
Step 2: acting
- Role play: children act and mime parts of the stories in front of the class.
Step 3 : production
- Children create their own stories and mime them.
- Children create dialogues and produce sound effects.
- Children draw and paint the basic protagonists of their stories.
- Children write their stories by using school computers.
Material:
Black or whiteboard, objects, colours, props, chalks, paints, glue, white paper, feltips , CD PLAYER, cards, computer pictures, cuttings
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