Kids Love English

Monday, August 8, 2011

Stand-up Animals

This is the project my group developed after we talked about pets and zoo animals. It focused on the animals they can usually see at the zoo.

First I set five minutes for them to color the pictures. Then five more minutes for them to cut out the animals and glue them to the cages they wanted. Finally, they wrote the animal words on the respective signs, read the words for me individually, and taped their projects to the wall.

Here are their projects.

Animal Pop-Up Cards

My group made this pop-up card to illustrate the pets they have or would like to have. It gave a dimensional effect to the project.

Here are the directions:

1. Fold two pieces of paper in half. Put one aside.Starting at the folded edge, cut a line. The longer the line, the bigger the mouth.

2. Fold back the flaps to form two triangles.

3. Open the flaps again. Open the whole page.

Put your finger on the top triangle and push down. Pinch the two folded edges of the top triangle, so that the triangle is pushed through to the other side of the paper.

Put your finger on the bottom triangle and do the same thing. The top and bottom triangles will now be pushed out to form a mouth inside the card. When you open and close your card, the mouth will look like it is talking. When your card is closed it will look like this:

4. Glue the inside and outside cards together. Do not apply glue in the area of the pop-up mouth. You now have a cover for your card.

5. Draw an animal around your mouth.

Here's an example of a frog.

And here's an example of a dog. Following the content covered in the lesson, the students wrote, e.g. I have a dog. I don't have a cat.

Here are some samples you can show to your students to model the project.

Here are the students' projects:

Paper Plate Animals

Paper plates - here are some ideas you can use to work with pets and wild animals. I handed out the animal plates and the respective word slips for the students to match. They also classified the animals as pets and wild animals, or both, and talked about their colors.