26.2.09

LITTLE BLUE and LITTLE YELLOW by Leo Lionni 

Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. As a single green shape, they play and then go, first to Little Blue's house and then to Little Yellow's only to be rejected and unrecognized.


When you read this passage try to emphasize the dialogs between the colorful parents and the green ball!!!
You will notice all the eyes of your pupils gazing at you with a mixing of suffer and curiosity, it's great!!!


In the link below you can find a downloadable pdf with some activities concerning the tale:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/blueyellow.pdf

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More translations... more languages

Pequeno Azul e Pequeno Amarelo
Editora: Berlendis & Vertecchia
ISBN: 8586387916
Ano: 2005
Número de Páginas: 44
Acabamento: Encadernado

Este é o Pequeno Azul.
Está em sua casa com a Mamã Azul e o Papá Azul.
O Pequeno Azul tem muitos amigos.
O seu melhor amigo é o Pequeno Amarelo,
que vive na casa da frente.(...)

Leo Lionni

Pequeño Azul y Pequeño Amarillo
(Little Blue and Little Yellow, 1959)
Leo LIONNI
Kalandraka, 2005;
44 pp.;
col. Libros para soñar;
trad. de Pedro Almeida;
ISBN: 84-96388-25-5.
3 años: prelectores.
Álbumes ilustrados.
El mejor amigo de Pequeño Azul es Pequeño Amarillo.
Un día que Pequeño Azul abraza a Pequeño Amarillo se vuelve verde.
Y cuando los padres de ambos también se conocen les pasa lo mismo.

Piccolo Blu e Piccolo Giallo
Autore Lionni Leo
Prezzo € 10,00
Prezzi in altre valute

Dati 1999, 48 p.,
illustrato
Editore: Babalibri

Petit Bleu et Petit Jaune
Series: Lutin Poche
Authors: Lionni
Market: Ages 0-4
Level: Beginners
Subject: French
Publication Date: July 1997
Price: £6.25
ESB Code: 74303
ISBN:9782211058780

9.2.09

Numbers and balls

This morning my students had a review of numbers.
I brought a yellow ball in class, I moved all the desks to create a space where they could stay in a circle and I threw the ball to one of them shouting 3!!!
The first part of the game was quite simple, they have to throw the ball to a classmate shouting the numbers in ascending order.

When they got bored I complicated the game in many different ways:

Tell the numbers in a descending order
or
Add 2 (or 3, 4, 5...) to the number you've just said trowing the ball
or
Subtract 2 (or 3, 4, 5...)
or
Don't say the numbers that contain 3 or 4 or 5 etc...

The game is quite useful because apart from using numbers, they'll improve their knowledge of multiplication table and mathematical calculations as well.