LA 9 : DIY Woodpecker Mask

Lesson : Language Arts
Year : 4

This lesson was conducted during my second phase of practicum. Instead of teaching my students on how to recite the poem given, I adapted it to become a song. So, the students could practice and performed with the woodpecker masks they have created.

Sample of Woodpecker Mask

The above text can be found from the Anthology of Poems for Year 4, 5 and 6 book (below)

How to Make A Woodpecker Mask?

What do you need?

Thick paper (I used black paper for the eye mask and yellow paper for the beak), cellophane tape, string.

How to Do it?

1. Print the template given above on a white paper..
2. Trace the template on black paper (if you use black paper). If you used other colours, you may just print it out. Do the same thing for the beak.
3. Fold the dashed line on the beak, and make sure it turned out to fit the eye mask.
4. Place the beak in the middle of the eye mask and tape it.
5. Punch holes on the left and the right side of the mask, then tie strings into both of the holes.
6. Tadaa! Done! You can just do it in your own way if you think my way is way to hard to be followed. :D

Using this poem, I adapted it into a song based on the Baa Baa Black Sheep tune. Just simply find the instrumental on YouTube to conduct this lesson in your class. 

Thanks for reading! :)