The document discusses the materials used to teach kindergarten lessons on various topics. It considers factors like responding to learning aims, relating to the lesson plan, being age-appropriate, and relevant to the topic. Materials used included songs to greet and engage students, puppets to present topics and scaffold learning, pictures in books and posters to demonstrate concepts, toys to present vocabulary, stories and videos to teach lessons in an engaging way, and games to consolidate learning. The goal was to implement a variety of materials coherently to set contexts and achieve learning aims.

1. Materials for kindergarten
When I thought about the design and use of materials for my
lessons in kindergarten, I considered the following:
- The design, choice and use of materials have to respond
to the lesson learning aims;
- Materials should help the teacher to set a context and
relate the activities of the lesson plan;
- They have to be coherent with the children age, interests
and needs;
- They have to be related to the topic being learnt.
Taking this into account, and after analysing the institution
and the group where I had to teach, I planned my lessons
introducing the following materials to achieve the learning
aims:
Songs:
 Purpose: To greet the children at the beginning and the
end of the lessons. To ask the children if they were happy.
Below are the links to the songs used:

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdeB9kDT6uI
(Hello song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN1Cyr0ZK9M
(Hello song)

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=halLxsxCZbk
(If you are happy and you know it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfvAlmr5g0
(See you later alligator)

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PraN5ZoSjiY
(Bye, goodbye song)
 With the finger family song, in lesson N° 3, I wanted the
children to review and practise vocabulary about family
members. I used it to set a context for a guided drawing
activity which came next. To implement this last activity
I printed and gave the children small family members
pictures, like these:
Puppets:
 Bartolito: This puppet was our friend during all the
lessons. He helped me to greet the class, present the

5. topics, introduce activities and materials, and was a
useful resource to implement scaffolding strategies.
 Mr. Silence: Was other friend. He helped me to ask for
silence to the class.
 Family member puppets: Were useful visual aids to set
a context for lesson N° 1. With them, I presented family
members vocabulary and scaffolded children´s learning.

6. Pictures
 For lesson N° 1, I designed a short family book, to show
the children different kind of families and to produce on
them awareness of diversity in families.
Link to the book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FAcn0Ob1KJfaF5XmQ
Xjk3pzYQpudXGzD/view?usp=sharing
Posters
 In lesson N° 1, I used a poster to implement an activity
that consisted on printing fingers on the branches of a
tree, to represent the children as part of a family inside
the kindergarten.

7.  I lesson N° 4, I used a poster to give a closure to my
practicum lessons. Through the poster, I showed the
children the vocabulary, topics, songs, and stories
worked during the lessons. I divided the poster into four
sections: greetings, songs, stories and topics. The poster
helped me to make a final review of topics and vocabulary,
and to assess children´s learning and engagement with
the different activities and materials.
Toys:
 The use of toys was a useful resource to present
vocabulary about animals of the farm and to scaffold
children´s learning.

8. Stories
 One of the most engaging lessons was the second one,
where I worked with the video song “A walk around the
farm”. We sang it and then we dramatize it. For that aim,
the classroom was set like a farm and the children were
given cardboard binoculars to look at the animals of the
farm.

9. You can watch the video song through this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwIOkOibTgM&list
=PLwNiV43yQ5JyRAR8adwbNCCyL-
UeD8jRZ&index=8&t=0s
 To continue talking about families and working with
vocabulary about animals, I choose to tell the story “The
three little pigs”. I found a video of the tale in the web
which was useful for my learning aims.
Link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSIXqg284h4

10. I also printed pictures to show the children specific
vocabulary of the story and to scaffold their learning.
After listening to the story, we dramatized it, using the
pictures, pig masks designed by me with goma eva, and
a plastic wolf mask.

11. The purpose was to give students the opportunity to
practise the new language; relate meaning with pictures,
gestures and movements, develop imagination, self-
confidence, listening, and coordination skills.
 In lesson N° 3, I worked with the finger family song. To
set a context to introduce the song, I created a short
story using Bartolito puppet, a farmyard toy, a picture
of a butterfly and a picture of a house.
Games
 To consolidate vocabulary about animals of the farm and
to develop cognitive skills, searching on the internet I
found a video game called “Wrong animals”. I included
it as an extra activity to be developed in lesson N° 2 or N°
3.
Link to the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vQfNi6i8E

12. This game may also be designed and implemented using
printed animals (cut into two pieces), glue, and a blank
cardboard to paste the animals once their parts are
correctly put together.