Lesson Plan : The soup Stone
Teacher Name: | E. S. |
Grade: | Kindergarten |
Subject: | Social Studies |
Topic: | Friendship, Sharing, Vegetables |
Content: | sharing, friendship vegetables cabbage broccoli onion stone hearth salted beef carrots potatoes green beans healthy food |
Goals: | Students will identify that sharing is a way to show you are a friend. Students will participate as buddies identifying the vegetables and reponding when asked. ESL students will be able to identify by name the vegetables we put in the pot for the class' stone soup Identify vegetables as a healthy, good for you food. Enjoy eating a healthy soup. Create a page to add to our class book identifing the vegetable they added to the pot: "I put in _______. I like to eat _______." |
Objectives: | Students will recall how the family acted as a friend to the soldier (by sharing their food, their barn) Students will recall the food added to the pot and offer the Spanish names for those foods. Students will practice the English names for the vegetables and identify the real vegetable and its drawn picture form. Students will play a concentration game matching up vegetable pictures and identifing them by English name Students will complete a written page identiying orally the name of their vegetable and copying the written name. Students will say, read "I put in _____. I like to eat _____." |
Materials: | Book - The Soup Stone by Van Rynbach Vegetable name & picture cards Vegetable concentration cards Real vegetables, photos of same vegetables soup pot, ladles, beef bouillion big brick (for the stone), small beef bouillion (for salted beef), chopped & nonchopped vegetables (cabbage, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, potatoes, green beans), water, bowls, spoons, |
Introduction: | Story, The Soup Stone Gathering of veges brought in by the class |
Development: | Discussion as the story progresses. Name each of the foods in Spanish and English. Match real vegetables with the pictures from the story. Match up cut vegetables with the uncut vegetables. Match up picture/word cards with the vegetables. Practice repeating, naming the vegetables with the cards while the soup is cooking. Compare how we are sharing food with the story and identify the underlying thread...friendship. |
Practice: | Students will buddy up with the picture/word card that matches what they put in the pot. I will hold up a vegetable (real), all will repeat the name of it. Then those who brought in that vegetable will hold up their picture/word card. Students will switch buddies to learn a new vegetable. Continue until all students have a chance to practice the names of all the vegetables. |
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Checking For Understanding: | Students will complete a scaffolded sentence by copying the name and picture of the vegetable they brought. Students will orally identify each of the vegetables brought with the picture/word cards. |
Closure: | Students will eat the soup, identifying the cooked vegetables as they find them in the soup. Students will thank each other for sharing their food and thank them for being a friend. |
Evaluation: | Students can name 3 - 5 vegetables in English. Students can identify 3 - 5 vegetables in the soup. Students can read back their sentences with the correct vegetable named. |
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