Materials for the lesson

Animal cards of our country

CD –player and cd “The carnival of animals”

Two large green cardboards (one with painted trees )

Small white cardboards

Hats

A box

Layout of the classroom

The classroom needs space for action.

The two green cardboards are placed on the left and right wall of the class. The green cardboard depicts a meadow and the other with painted trees, a forest.

A box has been placed in the middle of the class.

Phase 1

The teacher tells to children that the cd is going to start and they should try to recognize the voices of the animals they will hear.

The music starts and children report the animals they hear.

Teacher tells them to choose an animal card from the box.

The child must recognize if the animal is wild or domesticated, describes it and imitates its voice and its physical movement.

At the end of this phase it writes the name of the animal it has chosen on a small white cardboard and places it on its hat.

Phase 2

The children should be divided into two groups. The group of animals living in the meadows and the group of animal living in the forests.

They are taking their cards and stick them to the corresponding cardboard.

Every child sits under the animal whose name was written on its hat.

Phase 3

The teacher asks each group to be divided into small and large animals, pesticides and carnivores, in mammals and in those producing eggs.

Each time the members of the groups are divided into subgroups on the left and right side of their cardboards.

Phase 4

Children return to their desks and open their books.

They have little to learn from this chapter as the objectives of the course have been completed through the play.