My lesson about raccoons would be for preschool aged children and would be mammal themed. First, I would begin the lesson by calling each individual child up and asking them to tell me all about this picture. They can tell me anything they want. For example, what the animal is doing, why he is doing it, and so on. I would allow their minds to be free and see what types of creative ideas they can come up with. I would then write down all of the students comments, along with a copy of the picture, and post them in the hall for all the parents to see just how creative their children can be. Then, I would continue the lesson by having a group discussion and asking the students to share what they thought about the picture. Then, I would introduce some fun facts about raccoons such as where they live, what they eat, when they sleep, where they are born, what color they are, and some dangers of the animal as well. I would then read a book about a raccoon called The Kissing Hand. Also, we would sing songs relating to raccoons by using puppets. Finally, I would end the lesson by having the students create a raccoon craft all of their own, as well as, working on an alphabet letter “R” worksheet. This would allow the kids to practice their fine motor skills by tracing the “R,” as well as their letter recognition skills. Overall, this would be a great lesson for preschool aged children because it allows them to show off their creativeness by verbal expression and also by creating a craft. Furthermore, it works on the students social skills because I have the children collaborating together by talking about the picture during the group discussion.
5 comments:
Kody,
Wow! After reading your lesson, just makes me want to go back and change mine to make it better. You included so much within your lesson and it is seriously a lesson that I would really use in the classroom. It is great that you included a way to hang up what the children said in the hallway so others can see their creativeness. As a parent I would love to see things like that, that my child had said about a specific thing. A lot of time we as teachers just send home things that they did etc. and I myself as well as other teachers I have observed don’t really take the time and tell parents things that their child think or say. I think it is great how you took one image and tied so many things into that one image, like reading a book, singing a song, working on a specific letter, doing a craft etc. Everything you choose to do is so creative and fun. I think children would really like this lesson because it involves so much and so many different things. If you were to have a child who is blind, how would you accommodate them in this lesson since it is all based around one picture? All of our lessons are based around pictures and as I was thinking about accommodations for children with disabilities I found it hard to think of ideas for children who may be blind or have other disabilities? What would you do for yours and do you have any suggestions for mine? Great great great lesson and ideas! I love them all!
-Kaitlyn Imbus
I think that your lesson plan is amazing!!! You did a great job incorporating mostly all the different multiple intelligences. I think your lesson plan is very clear and easy to follow. You have a lot of great activities planned for the theme that you picked! I think children would love to learn about raccoons because children are always so interested in new things especially animals!! I also think this lesson plan gets the children more engaged in what they are learning since you have so many different ways of presenting the children with information about raccoons. I think the mammal theme is an excellant choice and you can elaborate in so many different ways with it! I think that you have great ideas for the theme that you chose and it fits preschoolers very well. I think it is very age appropriate! Keep up the good work! :)
I love how you incorporated so many different elements into your lesson plan! It seems like you really have thought it out. Children love learning about animals so something like this is perfect! They probably have not learned much about racoons either prior to your lesson, so they will really enjoy it! Where did you get a picture like that? I think your students would like this lesson very much and learn a lot from it as well! Nice work!
I really enjoyed your lesson. It sounds like it would be so much fun for the children and really get them involved. I really like how you started your lesson with an open ended question. I think that is a great way to get the students thinking and curious about your lesson. I also thought it was great that you incorparated so many different learning styles into your lesson. Your lesson sounds like it would be one all of the children would enjoy and learn something from.
Your lesson idea is very creative! I love it! I think it's absolutely fabulous to let children be free and creative with their thinking. I'm sure it would be very neat to hear their responses to what they think is going on in the picture! Also, it's an interesting way of incorporating animals into the curriculum. I like how you took one simple image and developed so many opportunities for the children through it. I think your lesson is great! I'd definitely want to do it in my classroom!
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