Lesson Plan : Mother's Day Card
Teacher Name: | Miss Owens |
Grade: | Grade 1 |
Subject: | Arts and Crafts |
Topic: | Sequencing and following multi-step directions. |
Content: | Fine motor skills; Gross motor skills; following directions; vocabulary; language arts; American Sign Language |
Goals: | The student will follow multi-step directions and sequence the steps in arts and craft activity during lesson. |
Objectives: | The student will follow multi-step directions while producing a Mother's Day Card. The students will use their fine motor skills to trace, cut, glue, and write on their card. Sequencing is another area that the students will focus on. |
Materials: | construction paper; pencils; scissors; glue; heart tracer; markers |
Introduction: | Introduce the activity by discussing Mother's Day. Introduce American Sign Language and discuss the many ways that people communicate. |
Development: | Show the students an example of the Mother's day card (with the heart shape glued on the front with the cut-out of a hand glued on the heart). The therapist/teacher will discuss the steps in making a card and allow the students to sequence these steps. |
Practice: | We will review the sequence of steps needed to make the Mother's Day card. With the help of the teacher/therapist, the students will begin to trace the necessary shapes and cut them out to glue them on to another sample card. As a group we will write a sample message in the card. |
Accommodations: | Allow students to work in small groups; provide big grip pencils/markers. |
Checking For Understanding: | Teacher/Therapist will facilitate questions about the steps that they took to make the card and ask questions about the purpose of the card. |
Closure: | Discuss the many ways that we are able to thank our mothers. Also talk about the many reasons that our Mothers are so wonderful. |
Evaluation: | Checklist of the steps needed to create card. |
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