We are going to give a
feedback on the story Mesoke and her new friends,
the link of the story is here.
We first thought about language. We have to say, it was a good choice
to use different voices for the different parts of the story, but it
was a bit hard to differentiate them, and it was hard to understand
the girls at some moments because they didn't always articulate.
There is one vocabulary point: they talked about the swallow by
saying “she”, but they should have used “it” because it is an
animal.
Secondly, the technique. We really liked the fact that the drawings
were simple but easy to understand apart from the background: as the
trees didn't really change, we had trouble finding out Mesoke was
actually moving forward into the forest. Besides, we don't really see
the smile of the girl which makes her look a bit scary sometimes but
it is more a detail.
And finally, the pedagogy. It was well presented and easy to
understand. The only thing we could say about it is that the actions
were sometimes not really logic, but otherwise it was very well done.
The activities were really well chosen! They were clear, simple and
went well with the story. The only comment we could make was about
the presentation of the second one: the aim was to match pictures and
sentences but they were both listed horizontally.
As a conclusion, we can say that what we liked most about the story
were the drawings thanks to they're originality (the teepees were
very well done!) and the activities were appropriate. Thanks to this
story we learnt that a swallow was an hirondelle.
The only blame we can make is about the logic of the story: the
background that doesn't really change and the reason why some animals
couldn't help Mesoke (why did the mouse need to swim?)
