Lesson Plan : New Years
Teacher Name: | Stacey Allen |
Grade: | Grade 1 |
Subject: | Interdisciplinary |
Topic: | New Year's Day - Traditions |
Content: | celebrate, calendar, Rome, festivals, restaurants, hotels, city squares, floats, bowls, wealth, New Year's Resolution |
Goals: | Tsw understand how many people celebrate New Year's Day. Tsw appreciate the significance of New Year's Day. |
Objectives: | Tsw order the months of the year. |
Materials: | calendar, pattern pg. 247, white c. paper, glue, glitter, star stickers, scissors, hole punchers, staplers, elastic cord or yarn, chart paper, teacher made worksheet "Months" |
Introduction: | Introduce today's lesson using the choral chant, "The Twelve Months of the Year" MDays 237 |
Development: | Explain the meaning of New Year's Day by sharing concept information. |
Practice: | Have the students discriminate between the old year and new year by listing events from each on chart paper "Old Year-New Year" MDays pg. 238. |
Accommodations: | Auditory - Choral Chant Early finishers - Go to learning centers Slow Workers - Extra time Tactile - make hat Visual - Chart |
Checking For Understanding: | Students will write in their journals "New Years Day is when........... He/she will write/dictate the end of the sentence. |
Closure: | Review the months of the year, and have a volunteer tell when New Year's takes place. |
Evaluation: | Check each journal entry using the following rubric 2 points - Explained at least one event that takes place during New Years. 2 points - Illustrated story to match text. 2 points - Was able to read own story aloud. |
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