I Can Tell It !!!

Hello everyone :)

Today, in this post, I want to talk about the workshops that we (me and my classmates) did on Tuesday 26th of november at university. We did it with children of the second course of primary education and they were about fairy tales and the objective of the workshops was that children remembered some famous fairy tales.

My mision during this day was to be responsible of a group of children and help and guide them through the different workshops. After the project I felt very lucky because, thanks to this mision I could see most of the workshops that my partners had prepared.

So, let me show you, what we did with children and wich fairy tales I found with my group of children:

First of all we go to Cinderella´s workshop. There we found really nice characters like the king, the prince, the evil stepmother, the fairy god mother, two little mice and even the real Cinderella. That was a nice experience for children because I think that they didn´t expect to find something like this in a class.  In this picture you can see all the characters that were in this place. They look very nice, don´t they?

In this workshop children had to read the book of Cinderella with the help of two of these characters and they had to select one picture that corresponded to the part of the text that they were reading in order to complete the book. Then children noticed that there were some mistakes in the book, and that was right because, the second thing they had to do was to detect the mistakes of the story. For example, instead of two stepsisters, in this book there were four, or, instead of a pumpkin it was an apple.

In this picture you can see my mates, Rebeca and Edu, helping children to stick the pictures in their correct places.





Finally, to end up with this workshop, children had to think about their favorite part of the story of Cinderella and they had to represented it with a frozen frame.

When we finished with Cinderella we go to Agrabah to meet Aladdin and company. This place was really well decorated, it seemed that it was not a class. As in the previous one, here we could meet some characters of the story such as the main character, Aladdin, or Yasmin, The sultan, the little monkey Abu, Yafar, etc. Here you can see better what I am talking about.

In this workshop, the parrot, that was my classmate Noelia, started telling the story of Aladdin but, at the middle of the story she said that she had lost the rest of the story and children had to continue with it. To do it, first of all, they, all together, called the genie. The genie appeared from the lamp and invited children to come into his lamp and there they found some pictures that they had to order to finish the story.

Then, when we finished, we go to Snow white world where we meet her and also the prince.

In this workshop, first of all, they had to wear a bonnet as if they were the seven dwarfs with their names on it. Then they had to complete a puzzle in which they had to order the story of Snow white. In this puzzle there were some pictures that the had to put in the correct order to complete the story.

Then, children were divided in two groups and the played a kind of trivia. The prince asked questions related with the story and children had to answer rising their hand. The first person who rised the hand had to answer and if the answer was correct, he or she get a point for his/her team.


Finally, we had the opportunity to visit a forest, but not a normal forest, it was the forest in which the three little pigs live.

In this place, children found, first of all, the three little pigs dancing very happy and they were singing a song. Then they told children that they had a problem, and the problem was that the wolf wanted to eat them, and, in that moment, the wolf entered into the class and told us that he was gonig to come back. So, three little pigs asked children to help them to build their houses, as you know, one made of straw, another one made of wood and the last one made of bricks. To do that the also had the help of three characters that were invited to the story, a little mouse, a fairy and a lion and children started building the houses very quickly before the wolf came back.

Finally, when the wolf returned, each group had invented a plan to scare the wolf, for example, the fairy became the wolf into an ant, the lion roared the wolf and then they ate him with spoms...
Finally the sing all together the song that the three little pigs were singing at the beginning.



That were the four workshops that we had the oportunity to see, but there were two more.

We also had the Olympus at the university and children could meet Hercules and have a good time with the characters of this story.

And finally we also had our own Wonderland here where children could meet Alice, the white rabbit, the Queen of hearths and even the crazy hatter :)

As a conclusion, I am sure that all of us, students and teachers, had a really good time and enjoyed a lot this activity. For me, it was a nice experience to share what we have prepared with real children and see if they like it. I hope I can do things like this when I´ll be working in a school because I think that all of us need to smile and spend a good time like this once in a while :D