Today I am going to share an activity to work on numbers in the First Grade of Primary. This activity is aimed to reinforce the relationship between the oral and the written form of numbers.
I have chosen "The very hungry caterpillar" because it is a very attractive tale for young learners. Also, it provides an easy way to internalize numbers by following a natural sequence.
All questions have been placed at the end of the video as an oral comprehension test. Also, they have been written in the order of appearance in the video so that pupils can relate numbers with their natural sequence. A more challenging version of this activity could be showing the questions randomly, without following the natural sequence of numbers.
In the first session, students would have watched the full video and worked on new vocabulary (food and days of the week) and, obviously, on numbers. Another option could be sharing the video with families so that students could watch it previouly (flipped classroom). This could be very useful to encourage our students to share their learning process with their relatives.
In the second session we would develop the comprehension activity itself.
In the third session, I would tell the story by using a real book with children sitting on the floor. At this moment, it would be important to encourage students to speak by completing some of the sentences I read.
From my own point of view, this could be a really motivating task for my students. I will see which aspects need to be improved at the moment I put it into practice.
