Story

 

-Hi! I’m Maria, and this is my house. I’m waiting for my friends to come.

-Hi I’m Elena, I’m very happy because we are going to do a pyjama’s party.

-Hi I’m Bárbara and this is my teddy.

-Hi I’m Judith and we’re going to have a great time together!

 

M: How are you?

J: I’m fine!

E: I have brought some sweets.

B: Great! Give them to me!

(Bárbara and Elena struggle; the sweets fall).

 

All: NOOO....!

 

(Judith leaves her teddy on the floor; she bends down and sees a button).

J: Oh! What is this?

M: I don’t know… It wasn’t there before.

E: What happens if we touch it?

B: Let’s try…

 

(Sound: the bed turns into a rocket).

(Bed: a sheet and some cushions right on top of the table).

 (Rocket: under the sheet there will be a card with a rocket drawn on it).

 

B: Oh! Look at this! The bed is now a rocket.

M: This is not my bedroom!

E: We’re in space!

J: Let’s go inside the rocket!

 

(Rocket sound).

 

 

 

 

M: Wow! We are in the sun! We are going to shake our arms!

E: This star is too hot…

J: Yes, and it’s really really big, and yellow… 

B: Let’s go to planet number 1.

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

E: We are now in Mercury… here, they live clapping their hands!

J: This planet is grey.

B: But it’s still too hot … because we are so close to the sun.

M: Let’s go to planet number two. Now remember, we have been to planet number 1, and now 2.

 

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

B: We are in Venus. Here they move walking on one leg!

M: It’s big and orange.

E: It’s really beautiful!

J: Wait a minute! Where is my teddy? I miss it! Let’s go to the Earth. We were in planets 1, 2 and now we will go to number 3.

 

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

M: The Earth is planet number three. And it’s blue like water, here they live moving like they’re swimming.

E: We can see the moon!

B: It has water and land, and we can breathe there…

J: I’ve found my teddy! Hooray!!!! We can continue… Count with me, we’ve been to planet number 1, 2, 3 and 4.

 

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

E: We are in planet number four. It’s Mars. On mars they live walking like astronauts

B: It’s the red planet.

J: It’s similar to Earth.

M: I like it! But… I want to see more planets! One more time! Remind me where we’ve been , to planet number 1, 2, 3, 4 and now…5

 

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

 

B: We are in planet five!

J: It’s the biggest planet!

M: Its name is Jupiter.

E: And it’s brown. Let’s continue! We’ve visited number 1,2, 3, 4, 5 and now 6!

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

J: We are in planet number six! Look! It’s purple. Here we walk turning round on ourselves.

B: Oh! We’re in Saturn.

E: Girls… Saturn is bigger than Earth and it has some rings.

M: I want to see the next one. Let’s continue! What planets have we visited? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and now we’ll fly to number 7.

 

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

M: We are in planet number seven!

E: Its name is Uranus. Here they walk jumping around

J: I like it because it’s pink, and it has a lot of clouds!

B: I’m tired, please. Let’s go to the next one! And to finish with all the planets, we are going to remember. We’ve been to planets number 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7 and the last one is..number 8!

 

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

 

E: We are in planet number eight! It is the last planet!

M: Its name is Neptune, and it’s green. Here they walk like dwarfs

J: It’s smaller than Earth. It’s cute!

B: Girls… I miss the Earth. Can we go home?

All: Yes! Let’s go to our planet.

 

(Button and rocket sound).

 

E: Oh! It was a fantastic adventure, wasn’t it?

J: Yes! I liked it a lot… But wait! It’s too late.

M: We should go to sleep girls.

B: Yes, please!

All: Good night, girls.

 

(Put the sheet and the cushions back on the table).

 

Activities

 

All these activities are for five-year-old students to help them understand our story (“Adventure at space”).

Pre-telling activities

Our first activity is “Learn with a puppet”. The aim of this activity is to recognize, practice and memorize some vocabulary that we are going to use in our story; so, for this, we will need a puppet (that it’s going to be one of the teddies) and the mural with the planets that we made for telling the story.

In this activity, the students have to correct the puppet; it will ask them some questions (e.g. the sun is red) and the children will correct the puppet in chorus. Of course, the puppet will point each planet or object that it is talking about.

While-telling activities

To ensure that the children are listening and following the story, we will introduce some activities.

The aim of this first interaction will be to get some feedback on how the children understand and follow our story and to revise together the numbers from one to eight. The first while telling activity is going to be counting every time that we go to each planet. Before we go to the first planet we will tell the students that they have to remember where we are going and to get there, we will have to name out loud together the different numbers that we’ll follow; otherwise the rocket won’t understand the orders and will not go to the next planet.  For example:

1. We are going to planet number one.

2. We are going to planet number two; one, two.

3. We are going to planet number three; one, two, three….

And so on until the last planet (number eight).  

 

The second activity will be making different movements depending on the planet that we are on; the aim of this activity is going to be based on the concentration of the children as we work on their psychomotor performance.

 

1. Sun: they will have to shake their arms.

2. Mercury: they will have to clap their hands.

3. Venus: they will have to stand on one leg.

4. Earth: they will have to shake their butt.

5. Mars: they’ll have to touch their nose.

6. Jupiter: they’ll have to turn round on themselves.

7. Uranus: they’ll have to jump on their place.

8. Neptune: they’ll have to walk like dwarfs.

Post-telling activities

The post-telling activity that we are going to play with our students it’s called “Hot, hot, hot!” In this activity we will ask two children to wait outside the classroom door for a moment with a teacher and, meanwhile, we will hide one of the mural’s planet or one of the numbers (while involving the rest of the class to help us). Then, we will tell the children to come back to the classroom and everyone will ask, e.g.: Where’s the green planet? The two students will look for it, and the rest of the class will help them by saying: Hot! Hot! Hot! if the children move near to where the planet is hidden, and Cold! Cold! Cold! if they move away. When they find it, the two children say, e.g.: Here’s the green planet! and everyone claps and says: Hurray!

 

Materials

Here we leave you the main materials that we used for this story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first one is the rocket, used to show the children and help the get in to the story. The other one is a mural that we made, with the different planets on it, with their number, name and colour written to make it very easy and visual when telling the story. Another material that helped us a lot were the different teddies that each of us used.

The experience we've had with this materias have been very positive. The children flipped out with the rocket, and the mural full-filled our expectations and helped us complete our objectives, that were ensuring the numbers and colours of the planets we show you above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you try to do it, please, show us!

 

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