TEDDY TALK
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES FOR BILINGUAL PUPILS
EAL Highland
Four Seasons: Un-Brella
Note: Pupils could look at Weather and Clothes subjects before looking at Four Seasons.
Activities
Materials
Language
Rules for good looking/listening/sitting
 Good looking card
 Good looking
Sit in semi-circle
 Good listening card
 Good listening
 Good sitting card
 Good sitting
 Where and Who Makaton
signs, if known
Hello Song
 Teddy
 Words of song
Pass the teddy to the child while saying the
 Names of children and
name
teachers
Sing hello song
 “How are you today?”
Ask “who” the child is going to choose next
 “I’m good” “I’m fine
thanks”
Name the Season
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/5  Which season is this?
Look at the flashcards and talk about the
321 Winter/Summer/ Spring /
four seasons – winter, spring, summer and 5330/sb5323.html#.VJQw1sgE
Autumn
autumn. Talk about types of weather in
 Sunny / snowy / rainy /
Flashcards below
each season and anything else - holiday,
windy
Christmas, Easter etc
Guess the Season
Flashcards below or other
 “It is sunny, cold, warm,
Turn the flashcards face down. Pick one up resources
windy, snowy”.
and look at it without anyone else seeing.
 “Is it winter/ summer/
Give clues like, “It is sunny” and ask the
spring / autumn?”
pupils to guess the season. Let one of the
 “Yes it is”, “No, it isn’t”.
pupils have a turn.
Read the story*
Un-Brella by Scott E Franson
Choose a story with the season (or one
season) in it eg Un-Brella by Scott E Franson
and read through discussing which season
it is and what the weather is like or what is
happening.
Goodbye Song
 Bag
Now it’s time to say goodbye (tune of
Mulberry Bush)
Give each child a flashcard/ season. Say
goodbye to each flashcard – child pops it in
the bag when they hear their season
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“What season is it?”
“What is the weather
like?”
“What clothes are the
characters wearing?”
Goodbye object
*Other stories to use for Four Seasons
Un-brella by Scott E. Franson (four seasons)
Snow! Snow! Snow! by Lee Harper (winter)
The Falling Flowers by Jennifer B. Reed (spring)
Miranda’s Beach Day by Holly Keller (summer)
Leaves by David Ezra Stein (autumn/spring)
flashcards