During my time in the Grove City Early Education Center, I designed a lesson plan on the season of spring. I had to choose a story that met the theme and then design two centers that reinforced the story, as well as incorporated the theme of spring into the activities. During my planning and preparation for this lesson, I made sure all of my activities tied together and met the learning objectives I decided to teach upon.
I began by reading the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. I made sure to emphasize the different stages the seed goes through in order to become a flower. After reading the story the class split up into two groups. One group played a flower color hop game. Different colored flower construction paper cut outs were placed on the floor. Students had to follow the teachers directions and do that action to the colored flower the teacher called. For example, the teacher would say, "Fly like a butterfly to a purple flower!" This practiced color recognition skills, as well as got students up and moving, while also incorporating the spring theme into the activity. The other group made plastic bag sprout houses that would eventually grow lima bean sprouts. Student got to decorate their own paper sprout house and assemble the bean into the plastic bag with a wet paper towel. Students were able to take these home to observe their growth with their parents.
Overall, the lesson went really well. I believe a lot of this was due to preparation and thought out planning on my part prior to teaching the lesson. If the activities had had nothing to do with what was discussed while reading the story, the students would not have gained as much knowledge about flowers growing in the spring. If our instruction is not cohesive, students will just be doing activities and not gleaning anything knowledge from the topics being presented to them.
I began by reading the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. I made sure to emphasize the different stages the seed goes through in order to become a flower. After reading the story the class split up into two groups. One group played a flower color hop game. Different colored flower construction paper cut outs were placed on the floor. Students had to follow the teachers directions and do that action to the colored flower the teacher called. For example, the teacher would say, "Fly like a butterfly to a purple flower!" This practiced color recognition skills, as well as got students up and moving, while also incorporating the spring theme into the activity. The other group made plastic bag sprout houses that would eventually grow lima bean sprouts. Student got to decorate their own paper sprout house and assemble the bean into the plastic bag with a wet paper towel. Students were able to take these home to observe their growth with their parents.
Overall, the lesson went really well. I believe a lot of this was due to preparation and thought out planning on my part prior to teaching the lesson. If the activities had had nothing to do with what was discussed while reading the story, the students would not have gained as much knowledge about flowers growing in the spring. If our instruction is not cohesive, students will just be doing activities and not gleaning anything knowledge from the topics being presented to them.
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