RIC-20950 Early years Fantasy - Witches

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Teachers notes The format of this series of books This series of books is designed to cater for early childhood teachers who use learning centres and cross-curricular activities as a basis for planning activities to develop key concepts and skills. Teachers will easily be able to locate activity-based learning within this complete compilation of ideas. All of the five themes within each book follow the same format over 20 pages. Each theme consists of: 1. A title or cover page with appropriate artwork which the teacher can utilise for themebased activities. 2. A number of pages of cross-curricular learning activities to develop the theme. Those themes which relate closely to a specifi c learning area may have more activities in key learning areas such as science. All themes have activities which are predominantly ‘hands-on’. Cross-curricular activities • Make a chart or set of cards of fairy folk-related words, such as fairy, wand, magic, wings, toadstool. Draw a picture next to each. Provide magnetic letters or stamps of each of the letters in the words. The children can choose a word, make it with the stamp letters or magnetic letters, then draw a picture of the word they made. (Language) English • Give children laminated pictures of characters from a fairy-related story they know, and a few props, such as a magic wand, a pillow, some dress-up wings or a bag of ‘fairy dust’ (glitter). The children work in pairs or small groups with an adult to create and share a new story using the characters and props they have. (Literacy) • Add fairy stamps, glitter and clear or sparkling cellophane to the writing centre. Add glitter to playdough, with which the children can make the letter ‘f’ or spell out ‘fairy’ (or other theme-related letters or words). The children can write or trace other focus letters with glitter glue pens. (Language) • Print or photocopy some pictures of fairies and other fairy folk. Glue • The children can draw or paint an imaginary fairy creature, or make one them onto card and laminate. Hide from playdough. They then give their creature a name and write as much the fairy folk pictures around the of that name as they can. Collect the images (or take photos of playdough classroom. Children go on a hunt creations) and compile then as a class book, or use these characters to to fi nd them and when they do, create your own class fairytales. (Literacy) they describe the creature using as many descriptive words as they can. (Literacy) • After reading stories involving different types of fairy folk, • Read a story such as the Brothers Grimm’s ‘The elves and talk about some of the characteristics of the folk. Ask the the shoemaker’. Give each child a large piece of paper children to give some descriptions of the typical traits of folded into thirds. The children draw the beginning, middle folk; for example: fairies are often mischievous, gnomes and end of the story, then retell it in their own words using are often grumpy. Ask the children to select one type their pictures as cues. (Language) of fairy folk or a character from a story they associate • The children can draw or ‘write’ a letter to the tooth fairy with or feel they are like in some way. They draw this (after reading a storybook such as Dear Tooth Fairy by character and tell an adult (who scribes) why they Alan Durant) on tooth- or fairy-shaped paper. (Language) feel they are like this character; for example, ‘I am like Bashful, the dwarf, because I am a bit shy sometimes’. • Introduce the letter ‘f’ with a fl ower fairy (a fairy fl ying over (Literature) a fl ower drawn in an ‘f’ shape). (Language) • Make pairs of cards with pictures and names of characters from a story the children know. Place these face down in a grid. The children turn over two cards and try to link the two characters in some way. For example, if the class is studying Sleeping beauty and a child turns over images of Malefi cent and the Prince, the child could say, ‘Malefi cent tried to kill the Prince’. If a child connects the two characters, he/she keeps the cards, if not the cards must be returned. (Literacy) • Do some ‘magic writing’. The children write • With the children, plan a fairy party with fairy bread, fairy target letters (such as ‘f’ for fairy or copy whole cupcakes (see recipes page 37) and games (page 26). words) in white crayon. They then go over the The children can make invitations to parents or others in the writing with a tempera paint wash and the writing centre. Once written, add glitter, roll into a scroll and letters will magically appear. (Language) tie with coloured ribbon. (Language) • Listen to stories about fairy folk. Make up a sound for each of the main characters, such as ‘La, la, la!’ for the fairy, ‘Grumble, grumble!’ for the troll or ‘Stomp, stomp!’ for the giant. Each time the character is mentioned, the children make the sound that goes with him/her. (Literacy) 22 Early years themes—Fantasy—Fairy folk www.ricpublications.com.au – R.I.C. Publications ® 3. Background information with useful facts about the theme. 4. A list of concepts to be developed provides suggested developmentallyappropriate learning outcomes that are achieved by completing the theme. iv Early years themes—Fantasy www.ricpublications.com.au – R.I.C. Publications ®
Teachers notes The format of this series of books 5. A small number of resource/blackline pages which can be used to create games or oral language activities, as templates for art and craft activities or as worksheets for more capable children who are beginning to read and understand mathematical concepts. 6. Recipes relating to the theme—simple cooking and non-cooking recipes, including those for manipulative play, such as ‘goop’. Recipes Cute cupcakes witches Ingredients • 1 packet cupcake mix • green food colouring • vanilla frosting • 2 tsp. milk • assorted food colouring of your choice • 12 to 16 small ice-cream cones • Fruit Roll-ups , licorice and assorted candies of your choice Instructions • Make cupcakes and allow to cool. Tint half of frosting green and use on cupcakes. Combine remaining frosting and milk, add choice of food colouring and coat ice-cream cones. Decorate cone hats with cut out shapes from Fruit Roll-ups . Add licorice for hair and candies for faces of the cupcakes. Place a cone hat on each cupcake witch. Ice-cream witches Ingredients • lime ice-cream (or vanilla ice-cream tinted with green food colouring) • black licorice strips, red and orange round candy • apple segment • ice-cream cones Instructions • Place scoops of lime ice-cream on a sheet of baking paper. Decorate quickly using black licorice strips for the hair, round red or orange lollies for the eyes and an apple segment for the nose. Add a small ice-cream cone for the hat. Place in freezer for 15 minutes, then serve. Spider cake Ingredients • 2 round (15-cm wide) white sponge cakes • green jelly • chocolate icing • blue food colouring • 2 large round pieces of candy for eyes • 4 fl at long licorice strips Instructions • Make green jelly and place in fridge to set. Place one cake on a platter and cut a circle out of the centre for the spider’s head. Fill hole in cake with set jelly. Place other cake on top. Place the spider’s head in place on the platter. Prepare chocolate icing, then add blue food colouring until it looks blackish. Cover spider with icing. Cut licorice in half and attach to cake to make 8 legs. Add eyes and place cake in fridge until ready to serve. Note: The spider should ooze green slime when cut. 96 Early years themes—Fantasy—Witches www.ricpublications.com.au – R.I.C. Publications ® 7. Display ideas for art and craft or specifi c learning centres. 8. A list of literature resources to complement the theme, including songs, action rhymes and fi ction and nonfi ction books. 9. A notes section to enable the teacher to record useful websites or resources relating to the theme, or other worthwhile activities or ideas etc. R.I.C. Publications ® – www.ricpublications.com.au Early years themes—Fantasy v
Page 1 and 2: EARLY YEARS THEMES Fantasy Witches
Page 3: Early themes - Fantasy Foreword Ear
Page 7 and 8: Teachers notes About the artwork Al
Page 9 and 10: Teachers notes Sample social skills
Page 11 and 12: Teachers notes Sample fine motor sk
Page 13 and 14: Teachers notes Sample mathematics s
Page 15 and 16: Witches - 1 Mathematics • Ask chi
Page 17 and 18: Witches - 2 Visual arts • Make bl
Page 19 and 20: Witches - 3 Drama • Children role
Page 21 and 22: Magic spell animals Instructions: T
Page 23 and 24: Dot-to-dot Instructions: Enlarge th
Page 25 and 26: Instructions: Photocopy or trace th
Page 27 and 28: Finger spiders Instructions: Photoc
Page 29 and 30: Recipes Tasty witches’ cauldrons
Page 31 and 32: Literature resources - 1 Stories

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