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The Little Animals Activity Centre Lesson Plan

By Michelle Williamson

Introduction

Grade: Kindergarten

Subject: Literacy

Lesson: Sequencing part of a story

Time: 45 minutes

This lesson is designed for a Kindergarten class. The main focus is to develop reading skills and comprehension using sequencing and retell. The website, The Little Animals Activity Centre, will be used with the whole class to listen to an interactive story. This lesson fits into a unit on sequencing and retell. The literature used focuses on the theme of bugs and insects. For the purpose of this lesson, The Story Bear character will be used to read The Butterfly Trail.

Brief overview of Website

The website is run by the BBC schools division and has many useful resources. The Little Animals Activity Centre has many interactive characters that represent different subjects. It is aimed at 4 to 7 year olds. Teachers can incorporate many of these activities to support learning in Literacy, Math, Art and Music for grades Kindergarten through Second. For this lesson, The Story Bear character will be used. This character has 3 different interactive stories that involve the other animal characters from the website. Teachers can choose to have the sound on or off. The sound will be on during this lesson to develop student listening skills.

Story Bear - Reading and Listening

Count Hoot – Math

Digby Mole – Spelling and Rhyming

Mickey Maker – Art and Design

Foxy Dancer – Music and Rhymes

Puzzlesnuff – Gallery of various fun activities

Lesson Objectives – Students will be able:

• To develop listening skills

• To understand that sequencing means remembering events from a story in order
• To be able to sequence the objects from Digby’s backpack using the pictures
• To cut and paste the objects into the correct order that Digby Mole found them

Instructional Materials

• Data projector, Smartboard, computer and speakers
• Internet access for http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml
• Copies of worksheet for cut and paste activity
• Glue, scissors, paper, pencils
• Click and Drag activity on Smartboard
• Worksheet for Cut and Paste Activity

Lesson Sequence

Initiation: 10-15mins – Whole Group

Begin with all students on the rug in front of the Smartboard. Start with questioning and finding out students’ prior knowledge. What does the word sequence mean? Discuss what sequencing is and how we use it every day. Explain that when good readers read a story they are able to retell the story to someone. In order to do this they sequence the events that happen in the story from beginning to end.

Explain that today we are going to listen to the story The Butterfly Trail on the Smartboard. Tell the students to listen carefully especially when Digby Mole has to find all the things he has lost. Today we are going to sequence this part of a story.

Students listen to the story. As they listen, have children come up to the Smartboard to click on the interactive parts. Ensure that questioning is apparent throughout such as what does Digby pack in his backpack? Why does his rucksack get lighter? How will Digby find his way home? What does he find first? Next? Last?

** If students are too disruptive in coming up to the Smartboard to click on the objects, have them raise their hand to tell you verbally and the teacher can click on it.

Development: 5-10mins – Whole Group

Display the click and drag activity on the Smartboard. (Link)

If I wanted to tell my friend which things Digby Mole found using the correct sequence, which object would I put in the backpack first? Ask for student responses, how do you know which object was first? What came next? What helped you to remember the sequence?

As you discuss each object in the correct order, have a student come up to the board and drag the object next to the backpack starting at the top. Make sure that the first object is at the top and the rest are sequenced below to give students the visual understanding of first to last.

Learning Activity: 15-20mins – Individual

Explain to students that they are going to cut and paste Digby’s objects into the correct sequence. Think about what he found first just like we did together on the Smartboard. Students carry out activity.

Student Differentiation:

Less able Guidance from teacher Give 2 objects already pasted onto the paper to prompt correct sequence Support with questioning during activity

Core Can work independently on cutting and pasting sequence Students will be able to cut and paste objects in correct order

Extension Ask qs – how did you know what object came next? What were you thinking? Students can cut and paste animals in correct order and then label them Predict what might happen next in story?

Closure: 5mins – Whole Group

Once students have completed the cut and paste activity, come together on the rug. What is sequencing? Who can tell us? Why do good readers want to sequence a story? Who can tell me the correct sequence in which Digby found his things? What other things do we sequence?

Assessment:

The assessment criteria for this lesson is

• Are students able to recall the objects from the story?
• Can students answer questions about the story to demonstrate listening skills?
• Are students able to cut and paste the objects in sequence?
• Do students understand what sequencing is?

The teacher will monitor and observe students during whole group activities with effective questioning. In addition, students can be questioned about their work during the cut and paste activity.

Completion of the cut and paste activity will indicate if students are able to meet the objective of sequencing part of a story.

Links:

Click and Drag For Smartboard

Worksheet for Cut and Paste

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