Lesson Plan : Getting to Know Mr. Groundhog
Teacher Name: | J. Beattie |
Grade: | Preschool |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Groundhog Day Book: "Go to Sleep, Groundhog!" by Judy Cox (fiction) |
Content: | Students will be exposed to such concepts as a) animals that hibernate in winter (Science 4 NYS Standard) b) positional words: under/over/on (Math 3 NYS Standard) c) US holidays through the calendar year (Social Studies 1 NYS Standard) Vocabulary: hibernate, superstitions, shadow, burrow |
Goals: | a) to attend to a fictional story about a US holiday (Groundhog Day) b) to identify two animals from the text that hibernate in winter (bear, groundhog) c) to identify positional words over, under, on from pictures in the text. |
Objectives: | a) Students will look at/listen to teacher as she reads the story. b) Students will touch pictures with maximal assistance in the text of animals that hibernate |
Materials: | book, puppets: witch; turkey; santa; groundhog; bells; timer; calendar |
Introduction: | a) introduce groundhog puppet and say we are going to read a story about Groundhog's Day, Feb. 2nd. b) sing a short song "The Groundhog's Shadow" (Mailbox magazine, Feb. 2009 isssue) with groundhog puppet to introduce concepts of hibernation, shadows, superstitins |
Development: | a) Use puppets during the reading of the story |
Practice: | a) Encourage students to hold puppets, bells during the story |
Accommodations: | a) Group 1: Students will use eye-gaze, switches to make a response. b) Group 2: Students will manipulate objects for response. c) Group 3: Students will allow materials to be presented to them for touch response (tactile defensiveness). |
Checking For Understanding: | ELA 1: students will attend to a fictional story for information about a topic (teacher observation) Sci 4: students will participate in identifying hibernating animals (teacher observation) Math 3: students will participate in identifying positional words under/over/on (student work) Soc.St 1: students will particiapte in identifying US holidays throughout the calendar year (teacher observation) |
Closure: | a) At the end of the week, students will re-tell the story in a skit form using puppets. Maximal assistance and assistive devices. b) Students will choose if it is FACT or OPINION: Can groundhogs predict the weather (ELA 1 NYS Standard) |
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