The Metamorphosis of Piglets is a painting by British illustrator Ben Cote, who shows the psychological process of pig's self-exploration with cheerful and bright colors. The animals in the painting are very human and their behaviors are extremely exaggerated. The whole story is absurd and full of childlike interest.

One day, a little pig suddenly felt bored and bored when he was a pig and wanted to experience the life of other animals. It is full of strange imaginations, imitating giraffes, zebras and other animals in various ways. But unfortunately, all these measures ended in farce. Just when the pig was almost crushed by a series of failures, it was inspired by another pig and found the fun that really belongs to the pig.

The picture book The Metamorphosis of Piglets conveys a philosophy to children with imaginative storylines and exaggerated and interesting animal expressions-to be the happiest person. In the process of following pigs into giraffes, zebras, elephants, kangaroos, parrots and so on. Children themselves understand that pigs are the happiest thing, and at the same time they will vaguely understand that being happy is the happiest thing. This picture book can help children build up self-awareness and understand their own values and happiness, which is also the cornerstone for children to build up self-confidence and self-esteem. Children need such picture book stories to guide them to explore and build themselves.

[teaching object]

The second-grade students know themselves in the third unit of the first volume of the second grade of primary school Chinese. Learning this picture book is a further exploration of "I".

[Teaching preparation]

PPT courseware and drawing books

[Teaching objectives]

1. In the process of listening to the story carefully, you can understand the basic content of the story, feel the vivid and interesting plot of the story, and tell your general feelings after listening to the story.

2. Read the picture book story further, and feel the cuteness and rich imagination of the pig through thinking imagination, dialogue practice and role performance, and initially feel the happiness of the pig.

3. In the process of blank imagination and story continuation, I feel the beauty of imagination and the happiness of reading through writing and drawing, and further feel the happiness of being myself.

4. Enrich children's understanding of the storyline of picture books by speaking in class and telling graffiti works. While children enjoy being themselves, they also enjoy the fun of picture books and stories.

[Teaching Emphasis and Difficulties]

Teaching emphasis: Teachers guide students to fully perceive stories, feel the absurdity and interest of stories in listening, reading, drawing and speaking, and finally realize the happiness of pigs.

Difficulties in teaching: I can find my happiness as a pig and feel my happiness when I finally lose confidence with the help of a series of interesting pig deformation stories.

[Teaching process]

First, observe the cover and guess the plot.

1. Teacher: Students, the teacher brought a very interesting picture book today. Look at the contents on the cover. (hide picture book title)

Children will be deeply attracted by pigs with feathers on their covers. It looks like a pig, but it has two wings tied to it, doing the action of spreading its wings and flying. How happy you look at the pig's face! Contrary to the pig's happiness, children will notice a bird flying in the upper left corner of the pig. Why does it open its mouth wide and look scared? The cover alone has filled the children with interest and can't wait to see what happened.

2. Observe the cover, and students can fully discuss what they see.

3. The teacher's camera shows the title of the picture book: The Metamorphosis of Piglets.

This is a picture book written and drawn by British illustrator Ben Cote. This story is very interesting. Let's open the books together, walk into the stories and see what interesting stories have happened to the piglets.

Design intention: The cover of a picture book can convey a lot of interesting information. Teachers consciously guide students to learn to observe the cover and guess the story, which is helpful to stimulate children's reading interest and cultivate their imagination.

Second, listen completely and feel the story is lively and interesting.

1. The courseware shows a passage of Jin Bo on the title page of the picture book:

Piggy, piggy, always feel unhappy,

Dressed as a giraffe, dressed as a zebra,

Dress up as a parrot for a while ...

But in the end, I still want to be a happy pig.

Piglet learned: Being yourself is the happiest.

Why, ask piggy!

Students read together and start the journey of picture books with repetitive, rhythmic and childlike language.

2. The teacher slowly plays the picture book courseware and tells it in vivid and infectious language. While listening to stories, students learn to observe the illustrations in picture books with their own eyes.

Try not to interrupt between teachers, give children time and space, let children completely immerse themselves in the story, let children give full play to their imagination, and integrate the teacher's language, illustrations in picture books and flexible pictures imagined in their own minds.

After the teacher tells the story, give the child a few minutes to recall, and then let the child talk about his feelings after listening to the story.

Design intention: Recently, I have been reading a series of books about picture books by Song Juzhi, and I increasingly agree that picture books are books for children. When children listen with their ears and look at illustrations with their eyes, they will present their own story scrolls in their minds. Teachers must be aware of this, calm down, give children room for imagination and thinking, and never use all kinds of useless questions to kill children's interest in reading.

Third, read and act out the story.

1. The teacher leads the students into the story again. The teacher reads, while the children listen, they think: How is the pig deformed? What is the result after each deformation?

2. Teachers guide students to review the plot:

At first, the pig wants to be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

The teacher's camera shows: So, being yourself is the happiest in the world. Read this sentence together.

3. Teachers guide children to feel the cuteness and cleverness of pigs, affirm the Excellence of pigs, and point out in time that pigs are great pigs and the happiest.

4. Let the children talk about their own advantages, and the teacher also talks about their own advantages, affirming and encouraging the children, so that the children can understand that being themselves is the best and being themselves is the happiest.

5. After the students roughly sort out the story and feel the content of the story, the teacher leads the students to read aloud in different roles. The teacher plays the pig first, plus exaggerated movements and expressions, and reads the excitement of the pig before each deformation and the frustration and courage after the failure of deformation. The children play zebra, elephant, kangaroo, parrot, monkey and another pig. Teachers can teach children how to read the tone of the role first, and then let them try to read it.

6. Let the children play different roles by adding tone and action. You can perform in groups first, and then perform in the whole class. Children laugh in interesting performances, feel the joy of pig transformation in laughter and finally find their own happiness. Through reading and action, children can deeply realize that they are the happiest.

Design intention: This story is very philosophical. How to guide children to realize that they are the happiest, the premise is to be familiar with the story, and in repeated reading performances, they feel that pigs rolling in the mire are the happiest. Then think about it in connection with your own life. Do you usually feel unhappy like a pig and want to become other people or animals, and guide your children to discover the advantages and happiness in their lives and gradually understand that they are the happiest?

Fourth, write, draw and speak, and improve the ability of expression.

(A) classroom painting

1. Students, will piggy be bored again one day? What can it do to make itself happier? Use your imagination boldly, try to speak first, then write, and draw with the strokes in your hand.

2. Have you ever imagined your own transformation? If you reinvent yourself, what do you want to be? What interesting things will happen? The teacher believes that your transformation must be more interesting! Let's talk about it first, and then write and draw!

Extracurricular development

1. Go home and tell your parents about your graffiti. They will certainly like your imaginative and creative works and your infectious stories. You will like the interesting story of pigs changing together.

Try to act out the story with your parents or friends. You can make your own props and turn into the person or animal you want to turn into. Performing with props will definitely be more interesting.

3. This cute little pig experienced an interesting story of metamorphosis, and finally found that being a little pig is the happiest and being himself the happiest. There are actually other small animals. They didn't know who they were at first, and slowly found the happiness of being themselves. I recommend reading the picture books Harry's Bigfoot and I don't know who I am.

Design intent:

1. The first drawing assignment is to let children give full play to their imagination and continue to make up stories. This ending is open, and children can imagine it at will.

2. The second painting assignment is to let children contact their real life and have rich imagination. Children will imagine themselves as the protagonist of the story, carry out unconstrained imagination, and improve their expressiveness by talking, writing and drawing.

3. Extended homework after class not only takes into account the parent-child interaction between children and parents, * * * uses life to read * * * to write * * * to enhance the harmony between parents and children, so that children love reading from the heart, but also takes into account the picture book stories with similar themes, which is of great help to the establishment of children's self-awareness.