TRAVELLING IN CINDERELLA STORIES

Hello again!

Yesterday was a great day, our teacher Raquel created for us opportunity to work with children through our workshop about fairytales. We were divided into 6 groups and every group was supposed to work with one fairytale. There was Snowhite, Aladin, Hercules or our CinderellaJ The name of the project was I can tell it! And the aim was to teach kids to talk about fairytales. We spend quite a lot of time, but it was worth it – children like the fairytales and I believe they learnt a lot.

To make them feel like in fairytale we decorated our classroom like in story, with Cinderella´s couch with mice and pumpkin, we used posters to help them to understand new vocabulary, and we dressed ourselves as characters from Cinderella.

Then we prepared for them activity with books we made, very nice colourful books in which children were supposed to order pictures from the Cinderella story according the parts of story. We helped them to understand the story and the vocabulary also, trying to use poster we used, or just using body language.

After organizing whole story we discussed with them where was the difference between the original story they know and these stories we prepared – different versions of story about Cinderella. We tried to make it as simple as possible for children at this age /7-8 years/ so we changed just simple points in the stories like instead of pumpkin there was apple as a coach, we had 4 stepsisters or Cinderella lost trainer J Children were smart and many of them found these out easily. Then because of the name of the project I can tell it we decided to ask children to retell the story about Cinderella, and we the small help they told us a short version of CinderellaJ I am really glad to have the experience like this and I recommend to everybody to create workshop like this, because for children it was very interesting and funny and for us – future teachers it was very useful experience. 

Thank you Raquel once moreJ

See ya soon

Lenka