THUMBELINA

Student profile Grade 2 beginning level

Skill to be Listening and speaking

emphasized

Language Grammar: can/can´t

Vocabulary:

Animals: frog, sparrow, cockshafer, mole, mouse, fish

Animal action: fly, swim, jump, walk

Objectives By the end of this lesson student will be able to:

What animals live in the field

materials  Shape theather

 Puppets
 Light
 Flashcard
 Words card for all the action

WARM UP

Capture their Introduce the student the fairy and the animals
attention
As the teacher: Class, meet my new friend. She is a fairy.
And connect to
prior knowledge As the fairy: Hello Children. How are you today?
and experiencies
As the tracher: Class say hello we are going yo listen a story called
Thumbelina.

As the fairy: beautiful children what animals do we know live in the field?
(showing popsicle stick puppet).

Pre-teach new “How does these animals move?” do a TPR activity to teach different action,
vocabulary or including the ones in the story: swim, fly, jump, walk.
expressions
 Use words card for each movement and show the word card for each
movement.
Listen and
respond/ “ When you hear an animal do the action”

TPR Frog: (using hand on the floor)

Fish: (using your arm)
Cockshafer: (moving fast your arm)
Mouse: (making facial expression)
Mole: (cloing eyes)
Sparrow: (moving your arms slowly)

Ask student to Show the flashcard of the field using the puppet.
predict what will
happen in the As the fairy: Can I jump through the flowers?
story
As the teacher: Can fairy jump through the flower

Then go through each action:fly, walk, jump and swim.

As you ask question as the fairy and the teacher, putt he words cards (jump,
swim, fly, walk) on the board in a T-chart.

Then for each action, put a chek if the student say “yes” and “X” if they say
“no”.

As the teacher: what is that, fairy?

As the fairy: It´s a magic flower would you like to know what is inside the
flower? Let see.

PRESENTATION

Do the storytelling with the shape puppets and the background. Use shapes of the characters into
the shape theater.

PRACTICE

Group storytelling Choose 8 volunteers to retell the story each one will choose a characther and
then they roleplay.

Student can acto ut the story, or part of the story on their own.
 APPLICATION

Storyboarding Have students write in the speech bubbles the right dialog like a comic book.

ASSESSMENT

Monitor progress Walk around the classroom and give one assistance to students who are
struggling to finish their mini-book.
And collect books
Collect the minibooks when they are finished and give students feedback.

FOLLOW- UP

Homework and Continue working on mini-book about themnsel at home and at the beginnig of
next class the next class, if necessary.

Ask a few students to volunteer to share their mini-book stories by doing a

short storytelling using the pictures in their mini-book to help tell their story.