Fables from Aesop
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What is the site about?
This website contains four animated Aesop's Fables. Each one is illustrated with hand sewn patchwork tapestries. There is clear audio narration.
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Why was it chosen as site of the week?
It was chosen because:
- The site is visually engaging
- The site is easy to use
- It makes fairytales interesting, fun and rewarding
- It is an example of using using drama/visual arts to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas
- Students have the opportunity to write their own stories
- Students have the opportunity to enrich their language experience and imaginative powers
- It is a great starting point for further lesson ideas such as creating a drama or as an introduction to animation
How can it be used as an educational resource?
This could be a starting point for introducing Aesop's fables.
Having watched and listened to these tales, children could write their own modern day fables with a moral at the end.
The teacher could read further fables. Children will enjoy having these stories read to them. They will understand what the 'moral of the story' means, and it will develop their emotional and imaginative ability. This is a great teacher resource for reading aloud to the children, to model reading, or as a base for oral language lessons.
Other lesson ideas include making drawings or crafts to use with their stories. A drama could be written and acted out for some of the stories.
A further possibility is to make an animation similar to these ones and upload it to Eurocreator. An example of something similar is available here >>
Curriculum Mapping
Oral
- develop their ability to communicate and use language socially
- develop cognitive skills
- develop reading and writing skills
- enrich their language experience and imaginative powers.
Reading
- develop the higher order comprehension skills
- learn to read for both functional and social purposes.
Writing
- have opportunities to write for a variety of purposes, for different audiences and in a range of genres
- develop the ability to self-correct their own writing, through a consistent experience of drafting, editing and redrafting
- develop a command of the conventions of grammar, spelling and punctuation, and progressively become independent writers.
Visual Arts
- making, looking at, and responding to art: line, shape, form, colour and tone, pattern and rhythm, texture and spatial organisation
- build on the children's own experience, imagination and observations.
Drama
- explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding
- exploring and making drama
- reflecting on drama
- cooperating and communication in making drama.
SPHE
- self-identity
- relating to others
- making decisions
Related links: Eurocreator and Lonesome George in the Galapagos.