Fairy tales workshop

This is the last post of this year and I would love to talk about a project we carried out with more than 50 children from a primary school.

 

The aim of this workshop was to help students to retell popular fairy tales. In my group we decided to work with Cinderella, so we prepared lots of materials to contextualise the classroom for this fairy tale. The point of this workshop was to design a book where the fairy tale was written but there were some gaps for the pictures related to the text. Once the book was created we copied it five times so we have one book for every two or three kids. The intention of it is that the teacher first reads the fairy tale to the students and then they have to read it aloud and chose the photo that better matches with each paragraph. It was a very successful activity and the children had a lot of fun as we were all dressing up as the characters of Cinderella and there was a great fairy tales atmosphere.

In this activity with students, I realised about the huge different English level that exists between students from the same classroom. I asked every student if they practice English at home or just in the school and the ones who told me they practice English at home with their parents or in an English academy, obviously could speak better English than the others. For that reason some workshops took a little bit longer than others.

My conclusion of this workshop with children at this age is that every child is a different world, therefore is really important to work with multiples intelligences in primary education to elicit positive responses in every single student.