Fishy ,The clever fish

ACTIVITY

FISHY, THE CLEVER FISH

This activity has been adapted for children of four and five years old.

About the story: This story is an adaptation of the famous tale NADARIN The repetition and

colorful illustrations in NADARIN, make favorite of many children, even in

Spanish.. In my story, there are lots of colorful fish ; they meet sea animals

who help them to review some structures and the most important thing , they

are the characters in the story

We have lots of sea animal crafts made from card board. In this story, it is

possible change the animal or even the story.

In this section there are some simple ideas to go with the story. They can be

used in a number of ways:

Simply print the black and white version of each page and allow the

children to color them.

How much do they remember: provide the child with all the colors of

crayons they will need to color the fish and sea animals

Colour recognition: For younger children, teacher may want to guide

them a bit more, focusing on colour recognition instead of memory.

Give them a variety of crayons and instruct them to colour.

Flash cards are use in order to learn the vocabulary

It is possible to use puppets

The story has to be read lots of times before performing

Each child will be a fish or a sea animal. It is very important to

provide enough pictures for all

As I said before, the teacher can adapt the story whenever he/she wants.

Fishy ,The clever fish

THE STORY

Once upon a time, a very happy colorful fish family lived in the deep

blue sea. But one, a little black, called Fishy, was the fastest and the

cleverest of all.

- Hey, look at me; I am as fast as a train…hooray!

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- Where are you going so fast? Be careful, said the other fish

- I´m swimming, swimming and swimming.

One day a very big, fierce, black and hungry fish appeared.

- It´s dinner time. My stomach hurts, I´m very hungry and I want

to eat a fish burger.

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He opened his mouth and ate all the colorful fish, all but one, Fishy…

- Help, help, he cried…

Only Fishy could escape.

He swam and swam frightened, lonely and very, very sad…

But the ocean was full of beautiful secrets: Beautiful jellyfish , some

Golden fish, a sea horse, two eels and so on ……(the teacher can

imagine and ask question to the children):

- What´s your name?

- Nice to meet you

- What´s the weather like?

- What are you doing?

- What´s your favorite…?

- I like/ I don´t like…

- Bye, enjoy your journey…..and so on…

He was very, very sad.

Suddenly, behind a big rock, he found lots of fish that looked like him.

Fishy ,The clever fish

- Hello, Can I help with you?

- Oh, no. We can´t play because there is a very big, black and

- fierce fish that want to eat us, we are afraid. They cried

- Oh, I have an idea, said Fishy. Let´s swim together. I know how:

you come here, you there, you on the left, you on the

right…….and Fishy ordered all the fish.

Now, we look like a very big and colorful fish and I will be the

eye…

Finally , the big, black ,fierce and hungry fish appeared and when he saw the

big colorful fish swam away as fast as he could.

- Hooray, hooray.

All the fish were very happy. They swam and swam and play and

play with no fear.

Milagros Ares Diez

CP Pio del Río Hortega, Portillo (Valladolid)

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish

Fishy ,The clever fish