course content of Pentalk 2011-2012

1. Pen Talk
At Shining Star Preschool
Age- 6 to 8 years

2. Idea Behind Pen talk
• Writing a task for children
• Fun quotient is important for memory
• Build up skills through games and activities
• Culmination of the activities –
• expressing oneself better &putting thoughts
down on paper.

3. Other benefits
• team building,
• tolerance
• respect for different points of view.
• Acceptance
• Empathy
• Peer learning
• Respecting everybody’s strength and
weakness

4. What we did this year?
• We began with descriptions!
• Cookie game
• Describing yourself
• Vocabulary build up for describing people
• A poem on me

5. Sample support sheet given

6. Describing Settings
• Circle time
• Work sheet
 I see
I hear
I smell
I feel
I think

7. Related vocabulary build up
• Synonyms
Big
Small
Yell
Frightened
fast

8. Rhyming game and class poem
• Circle time rhyming game
• Poem “The Swing”
• Worksheet on rhyming
• Discussion on class poem

9. The Upside Down Day
• A fun class to get them to think differently

10. Identifying settings
• Mr Nosey game
• Comprehension and story
• Identify settings game

11. Character buildup
• Dumb charade – different characters as theme
• Refer to earlier comprehension and story
• Character buildup

12. Building up a story
• Picture comprehension
• Pitureka game for vocabulary build up

13. Other lessons
• Writing a Fable / homonyms
• Sequencing and ‘Who’s in the Spotlight ?’
• Individual poem writing
• Story beginnings
• Sounds and movements
• Synonyms and message writing- telephone
conversation
• Story reading and comprehension ( listening
comprehension)

14. More lessons
• Four Square writing
• Identifying main idea- basis for paragraph
writing
• Other words for game
• Letter writing
• Fact and imaginary
• Fantasy writing

15. Sammy Snail Lesson
• Comprehension
• Word exercise
• Make up story Freddy frog and Sammy snail
and drama

16. No TV Day
• Good things Bad things
• Advantages / Disadvantages
• Paragraph writing
• Next Class – poster making
• Anagrams

17. Writing a Play script
• Fox and The Crow
• Syllable Poem
• Play script for Suppandi story
• Drama Fox and the Crow

18. Enact Play script