Family
Lesson 1: My Mother
Circle Time:The teacher reads a book, Are You My Mother?, and it is written by P.D. Eastman.
She discusses the importance of mother in a family and in our lives as well. She also talks about the different elements of the story.
Listen to the teacher: The teacher makes an anchor chart of mother and baby animals by drawing pictures. She can take pictures and show them to the students. Students listen to the teacher carefully because it helps them to recognize and identify the names of both the baby and the mother animals by asking questions like, Whose bird are you?
Role Play in a Baby center: Students play different roles in this center. They bath, feed, and rock a baby. They have to follow a set of procedures properly …show more content…
She recalls the students knowledge by asking questions like “Whose Child am I?” and she responds, “I am my mother’s child,” “I am Tina’s little sister” and so on. She tells the students that they have to make a family tree in a small group. She models each and every step how to make the family tree, and the students listen to the directions carefully. In the end, the students compare and contrast their family trees with the teacher’s family tree which is displayed on the Smartboard as a whole …show more content…
After that, she reads a book aloud to the students, The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss, without reading the title because it helps the students to identify the title near the end of the story. And then, they compare their tiny seeds to the picture of the carrot in the book which is so big that must be transported in a wheelbarrow. The students feel delighted when the writer says “ a carrot came up” and the teacher shows the picture of the carrot top which is taller than the little boy.
Planting Carrot Seeds: The teacher demonstrates how to plant carrot seeds in multiple steps, and she tells the students that they have to follow the steps in a sequence when they are planting the seeds just like the little boy in the story followed the sequential steps in planting the carrot seed. Students predict which sets of seeds will grow faster after planting their carrot seeds. They also compare the growth of the tiny seeds to the fully grown carrots. The teacher encourages the students to take care of their plants by watering them every day, and the students listen to the directions