Seaside special three: a sandcastle building poem and performance

Encourage the children to take an imaginative look at sandcastles !

The child who built this sandcastle on a Welsh beach at Easter most certainly had used their imagination ...and it captured mine as a I walked by.

You require  simple skeleton sentences (see below in French and Spanish).

Allow the children to determine the missing words in the gaps (quantity? colours? size) as they read the poem skeleton with you. 

Il y a .............pâtés

Il y a un…………..fossé

Il y a un  ........... pont

Il y a  ..............  tours

Il y a ……………drapeaux

Et voilà un château de sable fantastique!



Hay.........tartas de arena
Hay un foso
Hay un puente
Hay.........torres
Hay .........banderas
¡Y aquí está un fantástico castillo de arena!

Practise the poem with the class. 

Now send them a way in groups of four to create a visual performance of the spoken poem that builds  the sandcastle as they imagine it. 

For example you may have children making sand pies and counting etc, you may have children depicting the moat a water running past with their hands as the moving water, you may have children who pretend to ride on horse- back over the bridge etc. They can decide , the important element is that they are being creative with the target language in the way they use the language to design their castle in their imaginations and then generate a spoken performance of their group’s sandcastle for the class.