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ACTIVITY
FISHY, THE CLEVER FISH
This activity has been adapted for children of four and five years old.
About the story:
This story is an adaptation of the famous tale NADARIN The repetition and
colorful illustrations in NADARIN, make favorite of many children, even in
Spanish.. In my story, there are lots of colorful fish ; they meet sea animals
who help them to review some structures and the most important thing , they
are the characters in the story
We have lots of sea animal crafts made from card board. In this story, it is
possible change the animal or even the story.
In this section there are some simple ideas to go with the story. They can be
used in a number of ways:
 Simply print the black and white version of each page and allow the
children to color them.
 How much do they remember: provide the child with all the colors of
crayons they will need to color the fish and sea animals
 Colour recognition: For younger children, teacher may want to guide
them a bit more, focusing on colour recognition instead of memory.
Give them a variety of crayons and instruct them to colour.
 Flash cards are use in order to learn the vocabulary
 It is possible to use puppets
 The story has to be read lots of times before performing
 Each child will be a fish or a sea animal. It is very important to
provide enough pictures for all
As I said before, the teacher can adapt the story whenever he/she wants.

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THE STORY
Once upon a time, a very happy colorful fish family lived in the deep
blue sea. But one, a little black, called Fishy, was the fastest and the
cleverest of all.
- Hey, look at me; I am as fast as a train…hooray!
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- Where are you going so fast? Be careful, said the other fish
- I´m swimming, swimming and swimming.
One day a very big, fierce, black and hungry fish appeared.
- It´s dinner time. My stomach hurts, I´m very hungry and I want
to eat a fish burger.
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He opened his mouth and ate all the colorful fish, all but one, Fishy…
- Help, help, he cried…
Only Fishy could escape.
He swam and swam frightened, lonely and very, very sad…
But the ocean was full of beautiful secrets: Beautiful jellyfish , some
Golden fish, a sea horse, two eels and so on ……(the teacher can
imagine and ask question to the children):
- What´s your name?
- Nice to meet you
- What´s the weather like?
- What are you doing?
- What´s your favorite…?
- I like/ I don´t like…
- Bye, enjoy your journey…..and so on…
He was very, very sad.
Suddenly, behind a big rock, he found lots of fish that looked like him.

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- Hello, Can I help with you?
- Oh, no. We can´t play because there is a very big, black and
- fierce fish that want to eat us, we are afraid. They cried
- Oh, I have an idea, said Fishy. Let´s swim together. I know how:
you come here, you there, you on the left, you on the
right…….and Fishy ordered all the fish.
Now, we look like a very big and colorful fish and I will be the
eye…
Finally , the big, black ,fierce and hungry fish appeared and when he saw the
big colorful fish swam away as fast as he could.
- Hooray, hooray.
All the fish were very happy. They swam and swam and play and
play with no fear.
Milagros Ares Diez
CP Pio del Río Hortega, Portillo (Valladolid)

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