Lesson Seed Week 1 Days 1-2

Unit Title: Caring About Myself and Others
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Essential Question: How do I learn about myself and others?
Focus Question: How do people age, grow, and change over time?
Text/Resources:
Song: Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Song: Growing
Text: Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Poem: I Look in the Mirror
Interactive Activity: Say and Touch
Poem: My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson from A Child’s Garden of Verses
Standards:
RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems)
RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a)Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
b)Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
c)Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
RF.K.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
L.K.1 Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.
Student Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to recognize different types of texts, distinguishing songs, poems, and stories.
  • Students will engage in group reading experiences with purpose and understanding.
  • Students will follow words from left to right, top to bottom.
  • Students will recognize that spoken words can be represented in written language.
  • Students will read emergent-reader text during shared reading of poems.
  • Students will participate in conversations about kindergarten topics and texts.
  • Students will answer questions about key details in a text.
  • Students demonstrate understanding of the names for parts of the body.
  • Students will write and illustrate a language experience story.

Sample Activities:
Day 1
  • Sing song using video, Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
  • Students participate in shared reading of poem, I Look in the Mirror by Helen H. Moore. Reinforce foundational skills during shared reading.
  • Students arrange sight words (I, see, a) to make a sentence (as the teacher scribes) to include on a predictable chart. Students read predictable chart.
  • Introduce and read the text, Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr. Display a full body silhouette. Draw in parts and label during interactive read aloud. (Take observational notes to formatively assess student level of understanding)
  • Students work in pairs to outline and label silhouettes of their partner. Display class silhouettes.
  • Contact parents and give students assignment to gather photographs of student as babies/preschool and current pictures for a gallery display at the end of the week.
Day 2
  • Sing songGrowing using video (Engaging chorus will be easy for students to pick up and sing along.).
  • Students participate in shared reading of Say and Touch interactive chart. Students act out parts.
  • Introduce poem My Shadow. Read the poem. Ask students questions such as:
When do you see your shadow?
What happens to the shadow when you turn out the light?
  • Model reciting poem, have children chorally recite the poem.
  • Demonstrate using light to make shadows.
  • Take a walk outside in sunlight to have students make shadows as a reflection of their bodies.
  • Class writes a language experience story on what their shadows could do. Students draw pictures of themselves and their shadows to add to class story.
Physical Education Connection
  • Students use activity poem Stand on one Foot to exercise and rhyme about things they can do. Have students add additional actions.

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