1. The princesse with a little pea It's a very popular story written by the danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was published for the first time in 1835. In a very faraway kingdom, a prince wanted to find a « real princess ». A lot ofprincesses were presented to him but none had the qualities he was looking for. One stormy night, a princess arrives at the castle and asks for hospitality. The queen accepts and prepares a very special bed for the princess : under 20 matresses and 20 pillows, she puts a little pea. The next morning, when the queen asks the princess how she slept, this one complains on the hardness of the bed and thebruises she got all over her body. Only a real princess could have such a delicate body. The prince and the princess get married and the little pea is conserved in the royal museum.

2. First presentation of the story 1- With the group class, first presentation of the cover : children discuss, imagine what the story is about 2- Each page is discovered the same way 3-The text is read and the different hypothesis are justified or not 4- An oral summary is given to the children and we tell them the title.

3. Second presentation We question the children : what is this story talking about ? Page by page, children explain the story and the teacher reads again the text to validate or not what the chidren remember.

4. Third presentation in small group : Making of a book Identity : Material : pictograms and a big paper board The informations : - the main caracter : a princess - physical caracteristics : a crown, a wet dress, a beautiful dress -mental caracteristics : smiley, lover -the other caracters : the prince, the queen, the king - the place of the story : the castle - The magical element : the small pea

5. Identity card : the princess and the little pea

6. Main goal : Discovery of language Instruction : observe the group's ID of the book and make your own. Individual work. Material: virgin individual IDs and pictograms

7. Maingoal : discover the world First activity with the class group : -The illustrations of the book are all mixed up on the blackboard The children are sitting on the benches in front of the board. « Look at the illustrations, what is it ? » The children answer that they are from « The princess and the little pea » and that they are all mixed up. « You are going to help me to put them in the right order. » One by one, each child takes a picture and put it at the right place. The teacher validates and reads the story again.

8. Second activity in small groups Group of 6 children - material :6 pictures have been chosen from the book They are all mixed up on the blackboard. The group will have to put them back in the right order even though there are missing ones. - The story telling permits to validate the group'swork.

9. Third activity : individual Material: numbered timeline and 6 pictures - individually and by himself, the child puts the pictures in chronological order from 1 to 6 -the teacher validates the child's work. The book can be used to help.

10. Handwriting: the matresses Material: A3 white paper with a green round sticker at the bottom (the little pea) - different colored inks Instruction : Start at the bottom left and draw a mattress and avoid the little pea. Continue a second one with a different color on top of the first one and so on. The child glues a princess on top of the higher matress.

11. Handriting : second work Material : paper sheet with a princess seated on a bed Instruction : observe each pattern and do it all over the mattress. Choose a new color for each pattern.

12. Numbers We played at the « Mattress' game » when entering in class.

13. Feeling, imaginating, creating : We've learned a song

14. Physical activity Place : sport room Material : small green balls, boxes Main goal : fill up its team's box with most of the green balls ORGANISATION: - 2 teams sitted in front of each other A box filled with green balls in the middle of the two first children and an empty one between the two last children. At the starting signal, the first child of each team takes a green ball and pass it to the second child, all the way to the last one who puts the ball in the empty box. They continue until the first box is empty. Children have to be careful not to take two balls at the same time or to loose the ball. We count which team has the more balls, that's the winner.

15. Physical activity : Place : sport room Material : small green balls and rackets Main goal : keep the green ball on whatever part of the body is carrying it Instruction : « At my signal,you put the green ball where I tell you to, you travel around the room without losing it. » - in your hand straighten in front of you - on the top of your hand - on your head - stick in your neck - on your racket - bouncing on your racket...

16. Physical activity Place : sport room Material : small green balls and rackets, benches, boxes Goal : get rid of the small green balls ;bring back the green ball and keep them safe First step : Warm up One big box in the middle of the sport room, containing different size of balls : two children must empty the box by throwing the balls every where in the room, and the other ones must catch them and throw them back in the big box. At the signal, everybody stops and children count the number of balls in the box.

17. Second step : 4 children with rackets in a centered area containig a box. In the box, small green balls. The other children are outside the area. The 4 children inside the area must throw away with their racket the green balls contained in the box. The outside children must catch the balls and throw them back in the box without entering the area. Ifthe ball is thrown back in the box, the inside children can't throw it back. If the ball is thrown in the area but outside the box, the ball can be thrown back outside. After 5minutes, the game stops and children count the balls thrown back in the box and the ones outside the area.

18. Language : the litterary notebook - Each child chooses one book's illustration and reproduces it with color pens. - After the drawing, the child explains what he draw and at what time of the story it took place.