FROM THE FOREST TO THE SEA!: How the Fox Punished his Tail

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Story: How the fox punished his tail

Telling the story: How the fox punished his tail
Group 1: 3 years old
Group 2: 5 years old

Monday, February 6, 2017

Outdoor activity with Estonian story

Theme: Fox´s adventure trail
Children: 4-5 years old

Objectives: The child knows different trees in kindergarten yard - pine, spruce, birch, maple, pine bush. Child knows numbers 1-8 and learns new numbers 9-10. The child is able to describe a variety of senses and sensory activities. The child can form pairs according to their wrist band.

Tools: from cardboard and laminated - pictures from gemstones, from different things that make sounds and different things that taste differently. Jars with different flavorers. Big smooth stone, soft snowman and hedgehog crafted from pine needles. For the children from cardboard and laminated numbers - 1-5 numbers and pictures of trees and 6-10 numbers. To mark the trail stoppoints numbers from 1-5 and then numbers from 6-10 with pictures of senses. For the children wristbands with foxes.

Preparation: Inside discussion about different trees. Teacher prepares the adventure trail stoppoints. Teacher also explains the trail activities and introduces the rules. Linking the wristbands before going outdoors. Children are devided into 3 groups.

Activity:
1 - 5 numbers - Children have to find right tree. They have numbers and pictures with 5 different trees. The moving will be in groups and accompanied by teacher, who will tell when they have found the right tree and can move along.
Then the children got numbers from 6-10 for the senses:
sight 6 - differents coloured gemstones
ears 7 - pictures from different things that make sounds
nose 8 - jars with different flavorers
mouth 9 - pictures with different foods
hands 10 - big smooth stone, soft snowman and hedgehog crafted from pine needles.

After the adventure trail outside, inside the children and teacher had a discussion about it. The children had ti tell what did the fox see, heard, felt and discovered according to the stoppoints:
1-5 - What trees did the fox see?
sight 6 - eyes - what gemstones fox found?
ears 7 - what sounds heard the fox?
nose 8 - what smelled the fox?
mouth 9 - what did the fox eat?
hands 10 - whom caressed the fox?

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Discovery learning activity with Estonian story

Theme: "How the fox punished his tail"

Children age: 2-3 years old

Objectives: The child names the best-known forest animals and their characteristic features. The child knows that dogs are domestic animals. The child knows that dogs protect domestic animals from the other forest animals. The child monitors the fairy tale and is able to visualize its development. The child knows the fox's body parts and is able to show and tell what something is needed for. The child counts to three and is able to answers the question: how many there are?

Tools: real fox fur coat, mask for the teacher, hand puppet (dog), paper tail with cotton watt tip for each child.

Activity:

The teachers and teacher assistant are staging the Estonian fairy tale "How the fox punished his tail". The teacher is dressed like a fox in pretty orange and wearing real fox fur coat and tail. The teachers assistant has hand puppet and is dog. The other teacher is storyteller. The teacher, who is dressed as a fox, is among children and acts as the story goes. At first the dog is chasing the fox (they run a little in the classroom) and the fox is running to the cave (the cave is a playing corner) to hide. There they start to ask what each body part was doing during the chase. And with children they also show the body part and mimic the activities. When they come to the tail, they all show how the tail goes hop to one side and hop to other side. And the puppet dog pulls every child tail (the cotton watt tip comes off easily) and ruffles them like a dog. The fairy tale game sparked exitement among the children.

The same activity can be done also outside.