Giraffes Can't Dance Project: Resources to Enhance Children's Learning

This project focuses on enhancing children's understanding and enjoyment of the story "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Guy Parker-Rees, targeting children aged 5-10 years. It explores intentional teaching methods to explain the title, author, illustrator, and blurb of the book. The project details the use of giraffe and monkey props, finger puppets, and string puppets to increase children's involvement and comprehension. Picture collections are used to visually represent the story's key events, such as Gerald's dreams of dancing and his eventual success with encouragement from his friend monkey. The project also covers setting up a conducive learning environment, utilizing resources for sustained engagement, identifying areas of development in students, and reflecting on ways to improve the activity. A reflective journal documents the process of consulting with children, acknowledging their uniqueness, and encouraging their efforts to enhance future teaching practices. Desklib provides resources for students, including past papers and solved assignments.

Project Two – Resources
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Project Two – Resources.............................................................................................................1
Project Two......................................................................................................................................3
1. Within using the Intentional Teaching, describing and documenting ways in which support
to the children’s understanding of the following can be done.....................................................4
2. Listing and describing the props or puppets that can be use to enhance the children’s
understanding, enjoyment and learning of this story...................................................................5
3. Two resources which will be used for demonstrating the understanding of story..................8
4. incorporating story and resources into the program..............................................................14
5. Reflective Journal..................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
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Project Two
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(Source- Giraffes Can't Dance, 2020)
The book which has been selected for undertaking the current project is “Giraffes can’t dance”.
The author of the books is Guy Parker-Rees and selected age group of the children is 5-10 years
of age. The story revolves around the Giraffe whose name is Gerald who does not want anything
expect dancing. Gerald has thin knees and thin legs and therefore, it is hard to dance. Gerald is
upset as other animals can dance and enjoy the dancing. Gerald gets encouraging word from an
unlikely friend who is monkey and finally Gerald become able to dance (Giraffes Can't Dance,
2020). The story is about the encouragement and dedication which provide lesson to the children.
Also, the main character of the story is interesting which creates the interest level in children.
1. Within using the Intentional Teaching, describing and documenting ways in which support to
the children’s understanding of the following can be done
Intentional teaching has been determined as the teaching method that means working with
having an objective in the mind (Högberg and Gärdenfors, 2021). In order to engage the children
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in classroom the ideas, strengths and needs it is important to encourage children so, they can
develop high order thinking skills and this has been determined as the part of intentional
teaching. Within using the intentional teaching approach following elements will be explained to
the children.
Title
The title of the book is “Giraffe can’t dance “. In order to support the understanding of
the story it is important to analyse the title to the children. Now, for analysing the title to the
children, Picture of the Giraffe will be used so, children can become aware about the major
character around which story is revolving.
Author
The picture of the author is being shown to the children so, they can become aware who
has written the story. The objective behind this is to support the understanding of the children
Illustrator
Illustrator understanding can be promoted within using the flyers, magazines and
animations
Blurb
The scene from the book will take and mysterious plot will be created (whether the
giraffe can dance or not) and feedback of the children will be taken at the end whether they liked
the mystery or not.
2. Listing and describing the props or puppets that can be use to enhance the children’s
understanding, enjoyment and learning of this story
Props and puppets can lead to increase the involvement of the children in the classroom
and they will become more attainable. The learning in the children can be easily promoted within
using the props and puppets for describing the “Giraffes Can’t Dance” story.
Props which will be used
Giraffe props
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The prop of giraffe will be use in order to create about the major understanding related to the
main character. This helps in increasing the interest level of the student. This Giraffe will be
denoted as Gerald.
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This prop is depicting that Giraffe can dance. In order to explain the end of the story this prop
will be used. Also, within showing this prop it will be asked to student that, what they can
identify from this (Sabariah, Santosa and Ferdiana, 2019). The answer from the students helps in
knowing that, whether they get to know about the end or not. Along with this, attentiveness of
the students can be determined.
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Monkey props
This prop will be used for analysing the role of the Giraffe friend. While showing this prop to
student it will be said to the students that he is the friend of Giraffe and then children will
identify the name of the friend. In this manner, the understanding of the children will be
promoted and their interest will be monitored.
Puppets which will be used
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Finger puppets
These are the puppets that can be easily controlled by the fingers and will be easy to use.
Therefore, analysing the story and creating an effective understanding of the story these puppets
will be used. It will lead to increase the excitement level of the students.
String puppets
These puppets will be used in order to show Giraffe while dancing. With the help of
string it becomes easy to show the dancing movement of the Giraffe. Also, children will become
happy when they will see giraffe while dancing at the end. Also, the conversation between
monkey and Giraffe will be show with the help of string puppets.
3. Two resources which will be used for demonstrating the understanding of story
Picture collection
The collection of the pictures that has been presented below will be used for the children in order
to analyse the story. In starting it will be shown that giraffe is dreaming about dancing. Also,
pictures of all the animals will be shown for creating the understanding about the animals in
children. However, giraffe is not able to dance therefore, he only dreams about it (Tetourová and
et.al., 2020). Another pictures shows conversation with the monkey in which monkey motivates
the giraffe and finally giraffe become able to dance. After this incident monkey and giraffe
becomes best friends. At the end, Giraffe is happy as he can finally dance. The collection of the
pictures which will be used is presented below-
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