A Time Line with TimeToast and working on emotions with Todd Parr

 This time we are going to work with a new tool called Timetoast and we are going to use the different stories written by Todd Parr, have a look at this timeline.

Timeline: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2434702

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY

Emotions will be worked on in the assembly, once we carry out the daily routine in English we begin with Todd Parr's story “The feelings Book”. We discuss the cover and how the children appear in it, we are also going to use the flashcards to introduce emotions more easily in English: sad, happy cranky, surprised

As we show the flashcards we are making the gestures and the children are recognizing the emotions, it is important that we repeat the words and thus in each session the students will be able to more easily recognize the emotion when I ask them the following question: “How are you today? "I am .. "How do you feel today?"

TIMING, STEPS FOLLOWED AND MATERIALS

Four sessions that last one hour. We will need the following materials:

- Routine poster: with images and pictograms on the numbers 1-20, days of the week, colors, seasons of the year, emotions and months of the year.

- Flashcards and pictograms: about the vocabulary that we work on in the unit.

- Story and rhyme associated with images: to work on education in emotions “The feelings book” by Todd Parr.

A storytelling is done in each session so that through the story, the adaptation of our voice, the use of gestures and songs can understand the content of the text. We give importance to cooperative learning because it allows my students to share opinions and experiences in each session.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES 

The objectives that we intend to achieve in this activity are:

- Create a safe emotional space.

- Create a group feeling.

- Express feelings and emotions through visual support.

- Make students aware of their moods.

- Know  how to differentiate the different emotions (anger / anger; joy; sadness; fear; surprise; love)

- Use timetoast to learn more about Todd Parr's books.

PROBLEMS DURING THE ACTIVITY

We had problems with Interet connection, aslo this activity has been carried out with Year 4 students so for that reason has been so important the use of cooperative techniques considering individual and pair work but taking into account the social distance.

EVALUATION

This activity will be evaluated by creating an “emotions puppet” that will be done with two plastic cups  and the timeline created in class. It is a motivating way to work on emotions and the English language.