Springtime story drama and performance
Springtime
Last year on holiday I bought this wonderful story Toujours rien and decided that it would be the basis of a sequence of lessons on Springtime
The story is about an impatient gardener and how every day he expects to see shoots above the ground of the seed he has planted . Everyday he finds nothing and everyday a bird flies by too . Until he gives up and doesn't visit and that's the day the bird spots a shoot and picks the shoot and flies off and guess what the gardener comes along the following day ...... There is still nothing to see!
Today I found this You Tube clip of a retelling of the story with animation and music by a class of French children
Why do I like this clip ? The children are retelling the story , the story is animated simply and there is music as an accompaniment . Shown to the class , this could be the model from which our classes in UKS2 or Year 7 could create their own performance or their own photo story .
All you need is to read the story to the class, watch the story , cut up the story into sentences and ask the children to reconstruct the story .
Can the children make this into a recount with utterances from the gardener .
Maybe with language learner who are competent they could add asides for the bird. What's the bird thinking ( e.g j'ai faim / miam miam / la plante pousse )
Combined with this recount of a story you could link the learning to science and use this resource about
Or with younger children you could plant and grow seeds and practise this simple rhyme with actions from this French blog