Natural Approach

Lesson Plan

July 7, 2009
Grade: Kindergarten
Theme: Animal from the Ocean
Phase: Conceptualization

Objective: Through today’s class and intervening activities, the students will identify some animals that live in the ocean. The students will recognize basis sight vocabulary from the story.

Standard #1: Oral Communication
The students listen to and use language effectively to interact verbally/non verbally in different learning strategies and critical thinking skills.
Expectations: Listens to a story, nursery rhyme, poem or song and uses pictures, drawing and /or language to express feeling, ideas, needs and values.
Skills: Respond to simple commands. Uses word phrases and/or sentences that talk about pictures that Identify animals from the ocean.

Standard #3: Reading Comprehension
The student demonstrates confidence, independence and flexibility in the strategies use of reading skills, critical thinking and the conventions of language for reading a range of simple to complex texts.
Expectations: Uses context clues and illustrations to identify details and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Skills: Recognizes basic sight vocabulary, related to animals.

Activities:
· Initial: Routine Activities. Respond to simple commands. Uses words phrases and/or sentences to talk about pictures. Identifies animals.
· Development: Introduce vocabulary, theme, concept, or new skill. Teacher reads “ocean Friends”. Oral discussions Observe pictures to express their knowledge. Color pictures. Tracing practice exercise.
· Closing: Hand-out, worksheet.

Homework:
Make a “mini-book”