Learning Objects

The Puppet Pinocchio

The general development characteristics of these ages are: the large assimilation and imitation capacity. On cognitive level therefore, begin to develop mental representations. On mobility level, their capacity of coordination and equilibrium improves significantly, and starts the development of the perceptive capabilities. The fine motor skills are better dominated. On the other hand, on social level, starts a strong change with the numerous interactions among the equals, will be shown as well, the awareness of belonging to a group. Finally, on linguistic level, they are developing linguistic structures and expanding the vocabulary.
The set of cultural forms and selected concepts will act as means for reaching the established goals. Therefore, it will be the considered necessary objects of the teaching-learning process for the student integral development. So it is going to be the integration of the skills, procedures, habits, attitudes and values, standards and critical knowledge, principles and concepts, necessary for the autonomous development of the kid. The three main themes are:

Knowledge of himself/herself and personal autonomy, where will be developed the following content: the body, the image of themselves, the personal knowledge and the health and welfare habits.
The physical, natural, social and cultural environment: the people in their social and cultural context, the nature, the living beings, basic numeration.
Languages: communication and representation, we will work the language as a learning tool, written language approaching, the potential of the oral language, the artistic expression, the musical expression and body language.

The methodology that it will be used in this unit and its eight lessons is based in promote the relationship in the classroom, connect the individual rhythms, develop a comprehensive memory, acting as mediator of the teaching-learning process and the collaboration with the families.
The didactic approach will promote the interrelationship of the different areas, since the reality is conceived in a contextual way.

Justification of the didactic unit

The activities should assume a motivating challenge that stimulates the student by using all the materials, spaces and resources founded and of course, attending the basic safety standards. We understand the teaching unit as unit of schedules that is structured around a centre of interest.
For the activities we will have to take into account the capabilities, interests, motivations and needs of the students, but in addition, they must be: significant, individualized, varied, participatory, constructivist, versatile, motivating and co-educative.
The activities that we carry out in the unit 2 ‘’Workshop making Pinocchio’’ of the global unit ‘’we move our body’’ are:

We will reconstruct/refresh the story tale and show different pictures of the book to make it clear
We can reconstruct the story in different episodes asking them ‘’what happens at the beginning? ¿and after that? And after? And what happens at the end?’’
Paint/ cut Pinocchio.
Parts of the body.
Conversation between them with the toy saying the parts of the body.

The knowledge that the child will acquire on your own body is basic for the development of their personality. The body is a basic toll of relationships with the surroundings. We will focus on the sensory and perceptive capabilities of the body, due to the importance that they have in this stage, and on the physical properties of the objects.

Methodology

To work on this unit ’’we move our body’’ we will start with the popular Pinocchio story tale. After that will come all the rest of the units, eight in total. The one we are focused is number 2 ‘’Workshop making Pinocchio’’ where we start reconstructing the tale. We will work the direct experimentation on the different aspects of the body and the senses, we will seek the meaningful internalization of learning with the aim of creating healthy habits and early conceptualizations of the study object, expressing through the different languages they are learning.

Evaluation

Following it will be found the evaluation on general terms, for more information, please find the attached assessment.

Name and recognize the different parts of your body.
Use their possibilities by interacting with the environment.
Recognize physical basic qualities of those objects.
Assess the different cultural manifestations of the environment.

Sequence of activities

To carry out the different activities will be necessary a coherent sequence by beginning with a motivation activity (tale of Pinocchio), after that we will work with Specific activities (reconstruct the story), we will continue with development activities (Pinocchio comes to life!), after that we are going to finish with the expand/reinforcement activities (Gepetto and Pinocchio song).