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Valentine's Day & more planning for Brandon Brown

2/12/2015

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To celebrate Valentine's Day my classes created stories about...love! Don't worry, it's nothing mushy--just an innocent story about two boys liking a girl and trying to find her the perfect gift for Valentine's Day. To avoid any awkwardness in this story I chose a cast of either all boys or girls and used puppets. Let's be honest, the puppets are dopey, but that is perfect for this story. Embrace the dopey nature of the puppets! Describe how guapo/a they are and let the students have fun trying to pick up the objects in the story with the puppet's hands and mouth. Let your students play!
 
The story script includes fill in the blanks because each of my classes came up with their own story details. I am still continuing to backwards plan to read Brandon Brown quiere un perro in the spring, so this story introduced recoge and regresa to my students (both words appear throughout the novel).

The story focuses on the following structures:
  • recoge
  • regresa
  • le da
  • le gusta

Es el 14 de febrero, un día muy especial--es el día de San Valentín. Francine, Antonio y Carlos están en ________. Antonio ve a Francine...Antonio le gusta a Francine. Carlos ve a Francine...Carlos le gusta a Francine. ¡Antonio y Carlos les gusta a Francine! Antonio y Carlos buscan el regalo perfect para ella. Van a ________. En ________ Carlos busca el regalo perfecto. No recoge un libro, ¡Qué ridículo! No recoge un lápiz, ¡Qué ridículo! No recoge una pizza, ¡Qué ridículo! De repente, Carlos ve el regalo perfecto. Carlos recoge ________ (have students decide the gift or pull an item from the Caja mágica--the more ridiculous the better). Ahora Antonio busca el regalo perfecto. Antonio no recoge un crayón, ¡Qué ridículo! Antonio no recoge una planta, ¡Qué ridículo! De repente, Antonio ve el regalo perfecto. Antonio recoge ________. Antonio y Carlos regresan a ________. Carlos camina a Francine y le da el/la ________. Francine le dice "¡No me gusta!" Carlos está muy triste y llora. Antonio camina a Francine y le da el/la ________. Francine le dice "¡No me gusta!" Antonio está muy triste y llora. De repente, un chico muy guapo y importante llega. El chico se llama Umberto. Umberto ve a Francine...Umberto le gusta a Francine. Umberto busca el regalo perfecto. Umberto recoge ________. Umberto camina a Francine y le da el/la________. Francine le dice "¡Me gusta mucho!" Francine y Umberto corren a ________ y viven felices para siempre. ¡El fin!   
This story also gave my students a chance to practice the third person plural form of verbs. My 3rd and 4th graders can tell me that the 'n' means 'they'! 
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