SPINDERELLA– SYNOPSIS & TEACHER’S NOTES
SYNOPSIS Spinderella is a modern musical version of Cinderella. Cindy lives with her sister Becky. Becky is very bossy and makes Cindy do all the housework. Cindy has always dreamed of being a famous pop star, and singing on TV. Her sister Becky is going to sing on the The Karaoke TV Show, even though she is a terrible singer. Cindy would love to go too but Becky won’t let her. Just as she thinks there is no hope her fairy godfather “The Karaoke King” appears and, by magic she is transformed, and taken to the TV studio. It looks like her dreams might come true. On the show both sisters sing. Becky is terrible and Cindy wins the competition, then, the clock strikes 12 and the magic no longer works. Cindy has to run home. The next day there is a knock at the door. It’s DJ Dave looking for the girl who won the competition. Will he find her? Will Cindy become a famous pop star? AIM To become familiar with the characters of the play.
WORKSHEET 1 WORKSHEET 1 – PART 1- Explain that the play is version of “Cinderella”. They can look at the pictures of the two sisters and make sentences about them using the information in the pictures. WORKSHEET 1 – PART 2- Get the children to look at the story board, which explains the first part of the play. They should match the sentences (A-C) with the pictures (1-4). ANSWER: 1) B, 2) D, 3) C, 4) A.
TRACK 17 THE CLEANING SONG
TRACK 17 - THE CLEANING SONG WORKSHEET 2 The children need to write the times correctly under the clocks. Then, you can cut up the words in APPENDIX 1 and hand out a set to each group or table. See if they can rearrange the words to form sentences which describe the housework pictures. Then listen to the song, fill in the gaps and sing-a –long!
AIM To learn The Cleaning Song.
AIM To revise knowledge of food words and understand the concept of a balanced diet.
WORKSHEET 3 Get the children to colour in the fruit and vegetables, using the correct colours. (N.B some can be more than one colour). Then write the names in colour groups. ANSWER: GREEN- pepper, broccoli, pear, apple ORANGE- orange, carrot RED – tomato, apple, pepper YELLOW – banana. You can talk about what they think of fruit and vegetables, which are their favourites, which ones don’t they like, how often do they eat them etc Now have a look at the food pyramid. Explain that food is separated into 6 groups and that the drawing is a pyramid because it’s good to eat lots of the food at the bottom and very little of the food at the top. Get them to fill in the correct number for each food group. ANSWER: a) 4, b) 2, c) 6, d) 1, e) 5, f) 3
TRACK 18 – GIVE ME FIVE
WORKSHEET 4 Get the children to have a look at what Cindy and Becky have eaten during the day. Ask them if they think the sisters have healthy or unhealthy diets, why? Talk about why it is important to have a healthy diet. What can/can’t you do if you are healthy/unhealthy? In pairs, the children can make a similar chart with everything they have eaten that day. Afterwards they can decide if they think they have a healthy diet, and if not what they can do the change it. You could develop this in to a bigger project if you have time. The food pyramid suggests that we eat 5 servings of fruit and vegetables everyday. Again, if you have time you can get the children to design “5 A-Day “ logos and display them to encourage the school to eat more fruit and vegetables.
TRACK 19 – CINDY’S INTERVIEW
AIM Study of the sisters’ diets, learn the “Give me 5 Five Song” and listen to an interview between DJ Dave and Cindy.
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