The fabulous

seasons of the
year

María Guardiola Botella

Grado en Magisterio E. Infantil
Curso 2010-2011
 Unit number: 3
Sessions: 5
Grade: Infant Education, 2n cycle (5 years old).
Timing: From 11th of January to 27th of January.

OBJECTIVES

To know and to differentiate the four seasons of the year: spring,

summer, autumn and winter.
To work the pronunciation of the vocabulary corresponding to the Unit.
To promote the work in group.
To develop communicative abilities in English.
To use the PC to learn and to familiarize itself with the English speech.

CONTENTS

1. Listen, talk and converse

· Listening: listening to the poetry “ The train of four seasons of

the year”, while they looking the vocabulary at flashcards.
· Spoken production: repeating the poetry with the teacher.
· Spoken interaction: repeating and miming the poetry with the
teacher.

2. Approximation to written language

· Reading: reading “ The train of four seasons of the year”

vocabulary.
· Writing: doing guided writing in a worksheet.

3. Approximation to literature

· Learning infantile poetry of “ The train of four seasons of the

year”.

LANGUAGE

·Vocabulary: summer, sun, hot, beach, autumn, leaves, wind, winter,

cold, snow, spring, flowers.
· Grammar: present simple.
· Phonetics: /a/ summer, sun, flowers.
/i/ beach, leaves.

BASIC COMPETENCES & VALUES

 · Linguistic communication

Speaking and writing in English in class. Learning and control of

behaviour and emotions.

· Mathematical competence

Doing a worksheet, in which, they have to do a mark, where it

corresponds. And to identify the flash card's numbers with the numbers hung
in the wall.

· Social and citizen competence

Working together in groups of democratic and respectful form.

· Cultural and artistic competence

Working with the poetry for intellectual enrichment. And their personal
artistic manifestations along the days.

· Learning to learn

Working with the teacher's help and, after, working with their own
initiative.

· Autonomy and personal initiative

Doing the individual worksheets to act with self-autonomy.

CROSS CURRICULAR ASPECTS

· Knowledge of themselves and personal autonomy

Doing individual worksheets and doing mime representing the poetry.

· The physical, natural, social, and cultural environment

With the seasons of the year, knowing the different temperatures (hot,
cold,...), the weather's changes (to rain, to snow,...), environmental
characteristics according to the seasons, etc.

· Languages: communication and representation

Communicating in English in class.

 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

The assessment criteria of the unit “ The fabulous four seasons” will be
related to the progress of pupils in the learning on new knowledge of the
seasons of the year. Will bear in mind the Knowledge that pupils had to the
beginning of the unit and what they know later, when we finish it.

· Objectives

– To learn the vocabulary worked in the Unit.

– To know that the four seasons of the year are: spring, summer,
autumn and winter.
– To difference the weather.
– To know other characteristics to every seasons of the year.
– To communicate in English in class.
– To understand to the teacher when she speak in English.
– To demonstrate interest for the activities that we have done.

SESSIONS

1st Session: Listening

· Presentation: Listening to “The train of four seasons of the

year”vocabulary, while the teacher show them the flash cards. ( Anexo 1)
· Practice: Listening to the poetry “The train of four seasons of the year”,
while the teacher does mime. ( Anexo 2)
· Production: Teacher will stick some pictures in the blackboard and for
groups, children will stand up and indicate the words that teacher
pronounces.

2nd Session: Listening and Speaking

· Presentation: Listening and repeating “The train of four seasons of the

year” vocabulary.
· Practice: Listening, repeating and miming the poetry.
· Production: Teacher only will show them the poetry's vocabulary in
flash cards and children have to say the corresponding word.

3rd Session: Listening, Speaking and Reading

· Presentation: Listening, repeating and reading “The train of four

seasons of the year” vocabulary with the flash cards.
· Practice: Listening and reading the poetry “ The train of four seasons
of a year”.
· Production: First, listening and repeating some words of the
vocabulary. Second, read a worksheet to mark the words that they have
listened and repeated before.

4th Session: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing

· Presentation: Saying the poetry's vocabulary looking the flash cards

and, after, reading the same vocabulary written in blackboard.
· Practice: Doing a worksheet with a guided writing, using “The train of
four seasons of the year” vocabulary.
· Production: Doing a individual picture and writing the four words that
more children have liked.

5th Session: Stations

· Station 1: Will have a station dedicated to theatre, where children will

watch “The train of four seasons of the year” role play with puppet.
· Station 2: In a trunk, there will be different cloths and children will have
to get out them and to classify them in the station of the class, dedicated to
the seasons of the year. Children will have to say the name the season,
where they put the cloth.
· Station 3: We will use flash cards with a number and a image and in
the class will have numbers hung in the wall. Children will catch flash cards
and will stick them on the wall in the correct number.

ANEXO

Anexo 1: flash cards

summer
sun

hot
beach

autumn
leaves

wind
winter

cold
snow

spring
 flowers

Anexo 2: the poetry “ The train of four seasons of the year”

The summer is yellow, that is the color of the sun.

I am hot in the beach, but what delicious the lemon ice cream.
Second is the autumn and I put brown color to paint the dry leaves, that
the wind took away.
Arrive the cold winter and I paint everything white, because white is the
snow that covers all.
The last is the spring and everything is multicolored, beautiful are the
flowers and have good smell.