This is one of my favourite’s Eric Carle’s book. It’s a story about a chameleon who isn’t happy. Except for catching flies and changing colors occasionally, this chameleon doesn’t find life very exciting. One day, he visits the zoo and meets many different animals. He
wishes to be like all the animals in the zoo and its wish comes true. He changes its size and shape as easily as its colour until in the end, he realizes he is much happier being just a chameleon.
Esta é un dos meus libros preferidos de Eric Carle. Vai dun camaleón qque sinte que a súa vida non ten nada de excitante, salvo cazar moscas e cambiar de cor. Un día visita o zoo e desexa ser como os animais que alí ve. O seu desexo faise realidade: cambia de tamaño e forma tan doadamente coma de cor pero, só é ao final cando se decata de que é moito màis feliz sendo un camaleón.
What I like about this book is that it gives teachers the opportunity to talk with children about how we are different, how we are special, and how others are special too!Besides it allows us to work a large amount of vocabulary(adjectives, colours, animals, parts of the body) and the grammatical structure It’s got the (blank) of a (blank).
O que máis me gusta deste conto é que brinda a oportunidade de falar cos alumnos das nosas peculiaridades e de cómo estas nos fan especiales e cómo fan de especiais aos demais. Ademais nos permite traballar cunha grande cantidade de vocabulario (adxectivos, cores, animais, partes do corpo) e a estructura gramatical It’s got the (blank) of a (blank).
After reading the story, we talk about:
*How the chameleon feels at the beginning of the story (bored, sad,…)
*What happens when the chameleon sits on a brown leaf or on a red rose
* The animals the chameleon sees
*What parts of the body the chameleon changes
*How the chameleon feels at the end of the story and why
*What happens at the end.
Despois de ler o conto, falamos sobre: como se sinte o camaleón ao comezo da historia;que sucede cando se senta sobre unah folla ou unha rosa;que animais ve; que partes do seu corpo muda; como se sinte ao final do conto e o por que e que sucede ao final.
Finally, they had to create their own Mixed-up chameleon.Here you have their productions. They are fantastic!!
Por último, cada un tivo que crear o seu propio Mixed-up Chameleon. Aquí vos deixo os seus traballos. Son fantasticos!!
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