Christmas Stories (Stickman)

 The story of Stickman is a nice story to work with your students right before Christmas!

It's a story about a stick which can move and talk! Depending on what you are teaching and the level of your students, with stickman you can teach numbers,family members, body parts, comparative, superlative, seasons, the elements of a story, the verb to be and a lot more...

I simplified the story for my very young learners in bookcreator. You can find it here:Stickman

I also found the utube videos online and merged them to one video as it seems to me that watching this short film will make understanding easier...

You can find it here.Movie

I also created a thinglink which is made for young learners. Right now my students are practising family members so the games are focusing on Stickman's Family.

You will find it here:games

You can actually dramatise Stickman with props costumes and realia and it could be your Christmas Play!

As a surprise you could make Stickman Cookies for your kids or with your kids!

They are delicious! Ι used the easiest recipe with nutella!

You will see it here:Biscuits

Ideas of how you could dramatise it are shown here.

Laminate the settings of the story and make a road (optionally). You could simple throw the settings on the floor! The main character Stickman will be walking or jumping from place to place.

Hopefully in the end Santa will take him back home....

Here are some props

A hat for Stickman would be ideal!

and headbands for the other actors or masks

                                                   with paper ribbons or paper headbands!

And a skirt for the sticklady

You could even make a Family Tree!

Story Maps will help them retell the story and understand the story better!

or draw a map!

Can our students identify the characters and the settings?

Here's one activity!

Can they put the story in the right order?

What if they made a missing poster?

What if you focused on the rhyming patterns?

or Feelings?

Do you like teaching through crafts? I do!

Interactive notebook ideas

 

verb be

                                                             there is/there are

Objects pronouns

ROOMS OF THE HOUSE

PAST SIMPLE SPELLING

how many or how much?

clothes!

present continuous

Hamburger writing

 Writing a good solid paragraph is the basis of writing a composition. But if we use the paragraph model, it will be easier and fun!

you can find the template here:

template

we used our notebooks to make it interactive.

He or She?

 Very young learners can learn structures in a fun way!

So we made these hats and we learnt that He is for a boy and She is for a girl! How?

By creating our hats and when I showed a boy we all had to say he......

And we played games!

He She games

The template of the hat is here:https://www.bilgeceingilizce.net/worksheets2.html

But we also talked about British Culture!

We learnt that in England people love wearing hats! But most of all they love Tea!

And so we put on our hats and drank tea!

They loved it!

Tesol Presentation "Stickman and Robin Red Vest"

My presentation at Tesol on the 26th of November " Christmas Story telling"

please make a copy or download it in ppt form!

                                                             Tesol Presentation 

The color Monster

                                              The color monster is one of my favourite stories!

                                                                                read aloud

You will probably need to adapt it to your students' level.

                                                      adaptation for young learners

After reading and retelling the story....it's time for crafts!

Students write their feeling and its colour!

Now that they recognise their feelings, we explain that they don't need to be mixed up!

They can keep them safe in different jars and separate them!

When you sing or jump you are happy!Keep these emotions in the yellow jar!

When you cry and you are lonely, you are sad!Keep thse in the blue jar.

Fighting and taking things makes you feel angry! You are red now!

I bought some plastic jars from a toy shop and asked them to write down different actions and how they feel! For example: You get a new present! What colour are you?

Little mouse -Colors

My little mouse teaches colors in a fun way! It's an activity for young learners!

The idea is simple! Print a little mouse and some houses in different forms!Hide the mouse behind a house and ask your students to guess!But they must say:

"Little mouse, little mouse are you in the ......house?"

My little mouse craft

     Don't forget to make a copy and download this in ppt form on your laptop my little mouse ppt

ideas showing how to use this activity

https://www.youtube.com/embed/z0zcXeXLeuA

                                                               downloadable material

Going beyond the Little Mouse activity...and teach shapes!Or it could be done with school things, numbers etc...

adaptation idea

or little cat little cat are you in the yellow hat?