Lesson Plan # 1 

Lesson Title:  Friend Pictures
Time Block:  Choice
Age Group:  1-3
Group Size:  4
Curriculum Area:  Language Arts
Strategies:  Questioning
Why?  This lesson allows students to match pictures with the names and faces of their friends.

Objectives:
1.  To promote language development by naming the friends they see on the wall.
2.  To enhance matching skills by finding the picture when given a friends name.
3.  To incorporate technology by using pictures from a digital camera.
4.  To enhance children's awareness of self and others by finding their picture on the wall.

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks.
Early Childhood Standards of Quality

• ECSQ Standard F.2:  Criterion F.2.2: 

Learning Outcome 5:,9, 10 
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Standard 3


Materials:
Digital Camera
Computer and printer to print pictures
Laminated pictures of each child with Velcro on the back
A strip of velcro on the wall to hold each picture

Procedure:
1.  Place a picture of each child on the wall.
2.  Encourage children to find pictures of themselves and their friends.

• Show me where your picture is
• Can you find Sean's picture?
• Who do you see in this picture
• Hold up a picture and ask if that child is here today.


Lesson Closure:
Encourage children to put the pictures back on the wall for theIr other friends.
 
 


 

Lesson Plan # 2


Lesson Title:  Revisiting Opening Eggs Using an Activity Board
Time Block:  Choice
Age Group:  1-3
Group Size: 4
Strategies:  Questioning
Why?  This lesson allows children to revisit a previous activity by looking at pictures and words on an activity board.

Objectives:
1. To encourage group discussion by talking about what they see on the activity board.
2.  To provoke problem solving skills by talking about different ways to open the eggs.
3.  To increase language by giving words to describe the actions and discoveries that were taking place.
4.  To promote awareness of technology by using pictures from a digital camera to revisit a previous activity.

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality

• ECSQ F.4 

Criterion F.4.2 
Learning Outcome 2 
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Language Arts Standard 3,  6, 7, 9, 11, 12
Science Standards I
Materials
Digital Camera
Computer and Printer
Activity Board with words and pictures of children's activity

Procedure:
1.  Invite children to come and talk about the activity board.
2.  Ask children about what they see in the pictures.

• Who do you see in this picture?
• What is she trying to do?
• How did she open the egg?
• What is he using to open the egg?
• What is inside of the egg?
• What color is it?
• What is on the outside of the egg?  Is it hard or soft?
• Did Ella and Elise open the egg the same way or different ways?

  Lesson Closure:
          Encourage children to make another choice when finished.

 
• Because of the children's different learning styles, a variety of mediums enhance each child's strength and encourages interaction.

Lesson Title:  Friends Book
Time Block:  Group
Age Group:  1-3
Group Size:  Whole Class
Curriculum Area:  Language Arts
Strategies:  Questioning and Prediction
Why?  This lesson gives the children the opportunity to see  pictures of their friends and make associations with those pictures.

Objectives:
1.  To enhance group participation by naming the friend shown in the picture.
2.  To promote listening skills by hearing and responding to the book during group time.
3.  To introduce technology by using the digital camera to take pictures of the children.
4.  To enhance self esteem by finding their own picture.
5.  To promote literature by recognizing the first letter of their own name and others.

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality

• ECSQ F.1

Criterion F.1.2 
Learning Outcome 4, 8, 9
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Standard 5, 9, 10
Materials:
Digital camera to take pictures of each child
Computer and printer to print out the pictures
"Friends" book  (Each page has a picture of a child and the words "Friends, Friends, What Do You Hear?  I Hear (name) Talking To Me."

Procedure:
1.  Sing the "Friends" song.
2.  Introduce the "Friends" book to the children.
3.  Read the book, allowing the children to name which friend is in the picture.

Lesson Closure:
Sing "The Wheels on the Bus" and send children three at a time to put their carpets away and wash their hands for snack.

Lesson Plan # 4

Lesson Title:  Revisiting Opening Eggs
Time Block:  Choice
Age Group:  1-3 
Group Size:  Class
Source:  Self
Curriculum Area:  Language Arts
Strategies:  Questioning, Problem Solving
Why?  This lesson allows the children to revisit a previous activity by watching a tape of their activity on the monitor.

Objectives:
1.  To encourage group discussion by talking about what they see in the video.
2.  To provoke problem solving skills by talking about different ways to open the eggs.
3.  To increase language by giving words to describe the actions that were taking place.
4.  To promote awareness of technology by using the monitor and VCR to watch a playback of a previous activity and video taping the group discussion. 

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmark
Early Childhood Standards of Quality

• ECSQ F.4                                                                                                      F.4.2

Learning Outcome 10
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Language Arts Standard 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12
Science Standard 1


Materials:
Monitor and VCR
Video Camera and blank tape
Tape of egg opening activity

Procedure:
1.  Set up the monitor and VCR, making sure  the tape of the activity is ready to play.
2.  Invite the children to the activity.
3.  Begin playing the tape for the children.
4.  Using the video camera, video the children watching the activity.
5.  Ask the children:

•  How did Michael open the egg?
•  How is Elise opening the egg?
•  What happened to the egg when she pushed on it?
•  What is Ella using to open the egg?
• How else could you open the egg?


Lesson Closure:
When children are finished watching the video, encourage them to make another choice.

Lesson Plan # 5

Lesson Title:  Animals
Time Block:  Choice
Age Group:  1-3
Group size:  Whole Class
Curriculum Area:  Language Arts, Science
Strategies:  Questioning
Why?  This lesson gives children the opportunity to name animals and their sounds using an overhead projector.

Objectives:
1. To enhance vocabulary by naming the animals and the sounds they make.
2. To promote group discussion by talking about the animals they see on the wall.
3. To create realistic sized animals by using the overhead projector to project pictures on the wall.

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality

• ECSQ Standard F.2                                                               
• Criterion F.2.2

Learning Outcome 7, 10
Michigan Curriculum Framework
Language Arts Standard 3, 4, 6
Mathematics Standards I, II
Materials:
Computer, Internet and printer
Pictures of different animals on overhead transparencies
Overhead projector
White sheet to hang on wall

Procedure:
1. Create animal pictures from the Internet.
2. Print pictures onto transparencies.
3. Set up overhead projector and sheet covering the wall.
4. Invite children to the activity.
5. Put up pictures of the animals on the overhead.

•  What animal do you see?
•  What sound does it make?
• What color is it?
6. Continue to go through the rest of the animals, encouraging the children to talk about the animals.

Lesson Closure:
 Encourage children to make another choice.
 

Developmental Checklist

The checklist assists the college students, parents and my self in observing children's strengths and areas in which to focus and grow.  We can look at all domains of each child and focus on individual needs.

 
 

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality
      ECSQ Standard E.1
      ECSQ Standard G.4
 

Multicultural Experiences

We invited parents to come into the classroom to read, play a game or interact with the children in some way to display their own individual culture.  A few parents signed up to assist the children in listening to different languages and customs. 

Objectives:

1. To enhance the children's listening skills by exposing them to languages and sounds which are unfamiliar.
2. To encourage the children to repeat new words by saying the words myself given to us by the parents
3. To expose the children to language, pictures, dress and music by inviting the parents to share their own culture
 

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality
  ECSQ Standard D.3
  Criterion D.3.1
  ECSQ Standard F.3 
  Criterion F.3.2
Michigan Framework Curriculum
  English Language Arts 
  Standard 1, 4
 
 

Parent Education

A. Curriculum Web
This information informs parents about the different types of lessons we plan for the children.  This is one way we communicate our planned activities.


 
 

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality
  ECSQ Standard D.3
  Criterion D.3.2
  ECSQ Standard D.6
  Criterion D.6.1

B. Parent Letter


 
 

Michigan Content Standards and Benchmarks
Early Childhood Standards of Quality
   ECSQ Standard D.3
   Criterion D.3.2
 
 

Documentation Panels

The documentation panels allow the children to view themselves and their friends and teachers interacting together.  It also gives the parents opportunity to see the progress that has been made throughout the semester.  The experience of collaborating together of student teacher and mentor teacher is good opportunity for the student to learn from the teacher in planning, observing children's interests, and then displaying the learning experience.