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Assignment 6.1 Signature Assignment Individual Lesson Plan

Lani Justo

Fresno Pacific University

Whale Time! Activity

National, State, or District Standard to be addressed: California Preschool Foundations Volume 3 - Life Sciences 2.0 Changes in Living Things

← 2.1 – Observe and explore growth and changes in humans, animals and plants and demonstrate an understanding that living things change over time in size and in other capacities as they grow.

Background Information: Children will need to recite and identify their alphabet. Children must know some site words.

Group: 10 Students, Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten (TK) level

Objective:

• Add the word “Whale” to their list of site words

← Child is able to listen to others

← Promotes active, verbal communication with peers

← Children will be able to familiarize themselves with whales through pictures and point out different types

← Makes predictions about the animal before finding factual information

← Promote literacy by sharing information with each other as a group (Carrero, 2015).

Materials:

• Large picture of Whale poster

← Different photos and pictures of whales (i.e. Beluga, Blue Whale, Humpback, Narwhal, Orca)

← Fun Fact sheet gathered to share with children

← Sharpie pen

← Whale coloring image with the letter “W” in uppercase and lowercase dots

← Dark colored or marine blue construction paper

← Chalk

.Procedure:

← Review - Children will need to know how to write their alphabet and be familiar with letter recognition.

← Overview - Children will see an outline of the whale poster and learn whale vocabulary words to associate with Whales. Recite vocabulary words can include: ocean, blue, blowhole, giant, mammal, blubber

← Presentation – Preparation: Using the sharpie pen, write fun factual whale facts using fun vocabulary to share with children on the back of the pictures of different types of whales.

← Make copies of whale coloring image printed on dark or marine blue construction paper for Art activity.

← Display Whale poster and introduce children by saying, “I would like to introduce to you the biggest animal and mammal in the world with pictures, sounds and wonderful information to share!”

← Show children poster of whale and point to the letter, “W”, ask them if they know what the sound “W” makes.

← When children answer with the correct sound, of “Wh” then point to the word, “Whale” ask them to repeat as you point to the word.

← Take the children on a visual whale-watching journey by showing them different types of whales.

← Read the fun facts on the back of the picture using fun vocabulary words to share with the children

← For example: “The Blue Whale is a GIANT animal and the biggest animal in the world!” while holding up a picture of the Blue Whale.

← After sharing the whale watching journey, transition into the Language Arts coloring activity

← Pass out copies of a whale coloring image printed on dark or marine blue construction paper

← Instead of crayons, have children trace and color the photo in chalk.

← While children color and trace over the whale image, write the letter “W” and the word “Whale” on the board and have them copy the word and the letter on their picture to encourage children to connect the image and the word together (Carrero, 2015).

Discussion Questions:

← Do you like whales?

← What are some of the physical things we know about whales?

← What are some of the sounds whales make?

← Where do whales live?

← How do we know the difference between a whale and a fish?

Evidence of Learning:

Objective has been met if children are able to identify the connections between the letters “W” with the word “Whale” and associate together. Evidence of learning is also met if child shows understanding of different characteristics of whales. Child can verbally compare the differences between this animal and other animals. Child is able to share the information they learn with each other. Children begin to ask more questions and are curious about learning more about this animal.

Next Steps:

← If children show evidence of meeting the objective, can connect the lesson details together, answer questions and respond to whole class difficulties. Student can share what they liked best about the lesson.

← If child did not show evidence of meeting the objective, I would reteach the lesson plan to them and work with the children who did not understand, engage them in identifying some things about whales that they have seen from the pictures and what they heard from their classmates to initiate conversation. If they need assistance with letter recognition, I would write the word “whale” on their picture and have them practice writing the word as well as the letter “W” in uppercase to reinforce letter recognition and associate the letter with the word “Whale.”

References

California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 3. (2012). History-Science, Social Science. Retrieved from

Carrero, K. (2015). Preschool Curriculum Learning. Retrieved from

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