Story telling

Our frirstgraders have reading classes every second week. We read and work with different books from Disney ones to serious legends.
After "Finding Nemo" we made an aquarium and "The Legend of Loch Ness Monster" was an inspiration to make monsters.

Animals and their livingplace

After the idea of this blog, we tried to build the places, where animals live. We used the "Story Starter". The children had a lot of ideas, what is necessary for the animals and what is given by the humans.
Afterwards we translated the names into Englisch and French and labeled all the necessary things. Quite a lot fun. Thanks Maide.

http://creatingtomorrowschoolstoday.blogspot.de/2017/02/animals-lego-schleich.html

livingplace for cats

for dogs

for rabbits

fish

snake

cats

Story telling about the Vikings

In the 3rd grade I have presented a story about a viking, named Ragnar. After that we have cut the story into 4 parts. The groups had the task to build the parts with our new storytelling sets. Some had also the time to try the StoryVisualiser-App on our tablet. In the end we presented the buildings and I prepared a comic for the class about the working process, so that they could see the possibilities of future storytelling.

                                                                            from Kristin Zeiler

St George and the Dragon Story

Class 4A has given a warm welcome to the job shadowing French teachers.

The lesson plan chosen for the job shadowing  is a comprehension activity about the traditional story of St George and the Dragon.

The aims pursued are the following: to encourage pupils to use English creatively, to practise simple present tense verb form at third person, to learn new words, to retell a story through images, to practise reading, to discover something about the British legendary tradition. In addition, to give an example of a superman who was fighting against the dangerous creatures and getting back peace, which could contribute to the explorations of children's own life and world in the future.

In this lesson, children have watched the story of St George and the Dragon and played  a wordsearch about the main characters and elements. They have represented the context and some scenes of the story by legos.

The teacher has given each pupil a copy of the story page and read it aloud by going round the classroom while pupils were listening, asking some of them to repeat the sentences for the rest of the class and checking their understanding by asking comprehension questions. She has divided students into seven different small groups and assigned each group one part of the story. Each student in the group has tried to read their part of the story and each group has drawed a picture to represent it. Using only their illustrations, one picture per each group, they have practised their speaking skills by retelling the story in the correct sequence of images.

At the end of the activity the students have stuck the pictures and the sentences in the correct order to make a poster and reread them aloud in a semicircle.

Story of Basilisk

Once upon a time, in the dungeons of medieval Warsaw, there was a treacherous creature called Basilisk. It was enormously big, had bat-like wings, crocodile-like tail, paws with claws, and eyes that turned anyone into stone once it looked at you....


This well-known story was presented by our students of year 5.

Marketwives were boasting about their goods and Magda went to save her brother from Basilisk. She was all alone, as everyone else was too scared to come and rescue him.

Her bravery was rewarded and we all watched a happy ending.


Now, our young actors have just one more step ahead to become internationally known stars! :)

By Magdalena Gierasimiuk