Educational activity around the short film Bottle
Maintain sustained attention during listening situations Produce clear statements
Bottle © Kirsten Lepore
TitleBottle
ThemeFriendship
Genre & keywordsNarrative, friendship, snowman, sandman, bottle in the sea sea, correspondence
Age (for film)3-11 years
Duration5 min 25 s
DirectorKirsten Lepore
MusicSans musique
ProductionKirsten Lepore (États-Unis, 2010)
Mobilize language in all its dimensions.
After the students have exchanged texts and drawings, you will be able to deepen the notion of messages to communicate and establish correspondence. How to discover and perhaps understand, love another person without meeting them?
With the neighboring class but why not also with another school, another city or another country?
This activity can be organized in several sessions.
Establish a correspondence (like between the two snowmen and sandmen in the film) with the medium-large class next to yours. Write a letter to the neighboring class. Lend and share a book or film that the children enjoyed. Create a drawn composition on the theme of this book. Write the letter in the form of a riddle (common collective writing orally) then, for example, copy words on glued strips of paper. Wait for a response from the neighboring class (who could send you a recipe that they liked to make, or a reading that they enjoyed...).
For more information on this activity and the use of films in school, Download Marjolaine Rouzeau's memoir...
Activity sheet written by: Marjolaine Rouzeau
