Few methodological resources
are so attractive and useful for the foreign language class in
Primary as puppets. Puppets are both entertaining and attractive.
Puppets are children´s toys
that are not old-fashioned. Children have used through generations
as a toy to have a fun time making up stories and creating
situations.
Puppets tend to like all
children because they can create different characters and their
stories can represent adventures, magical stories or different
situations.
In addition, play with
puppets, is not only entertaining, it is also educational.
Fundamentally these
materials are useful to assume the role of characters that are not
present in the classroom, for example, be a man if the teacher is a
woman, a familiar, a foreign visitor, a pet or a special friend to
all students.
Teacher needs to overact
using all kinds of expressive and body-language resources, always
with the purpose of catching the attention and encourage the
imagination of students.
ADVANTAGES OF USING PUPPETS
IN THE CLASSROOM.
- Develop creativity and imagination of children. They can be used to create their own stories. Children will decide what puppets say or what actions represent with them. This activity invites to imagination can fly.
- Puppets promote empathy. Children have to take the side of one of the characters and helps throughout the story. This helps children learn to put themselves in someone else´s place and to appreciate the feelings that some actions can produce.
- They increase the attention. Puppets stimulate the child´s concentration because child has to be attentive to create the characters and to imagine the stories. They help the child to remain doing the same activity for a specific time.
- Children learning through play and increase their vocabulary while they work the vocabulary and memory. Also puppets stimulate the child´s comprehension because they have to interact with the characters.
- Puppets educate in values. Traditional stories represented with puppets spoke of values such as tolerance, kindness or generosity. This stories usually transmit a possitive message to children.
- Toys are simple to create by the child and they are available to all children.
For all these reasons,
puppets are a very good educational element. They are not only a
resource for leisure time also they transmit moral values to
children.
1 comentarios:
Hello Patri!!
I totally agree with your idea to use the puppets inside the classroom because as you said, this is a very educative tool to help the students to develop themselves.
It is usefull to lose the embarrasment because they are interpreting a character and they can use their imagination.
I use the puppets in many cases, for example, when I go to my brothers' house, I play with my nephews a lot of with it. And as you said, children enjoy it so much.
Congrats for your post!!
=) Cris
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