Sandra+Hall

=Sandra Hall=

**Daily Lesson Game Plan ** This lesson is on Communication. In this lesson the students will discover the why it is important that we communicate. They will also learn about the many ways we communicate. The students will learn which special marks their fingers; hands and foot prints have that make them different from the others. ELAKR1 the student demonstrate knowledge of the concept of print. ELAKR5 The students acquire and read grade level word to communicate effectively. ELAKR6 The students gains meaning of orally presented text. ELAKW1 The student will begin to understand the principles of writing. ELAKW2The students begin to write in a variety of genres including narratives ELAKLSV1 The student use oral and visual skills to communicate. MKN1 Student connects numerals to the quantities they represent. MKM1 Students will group object according to common prosperities such as longer/shorter more/less MKD1 The students will pose information questions, collect data organize and display results using objects pictures and picture graphs. SKCS3 The students will use tool and instruments for observing, measuring and manipulating objects in scientific activities. SKL2 The students will compare similarities and differences in groups of organism Communication and collaboration Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making Technology operation and concepts Research and information fluency In this lesson the students will view finger, hand and foot prints of themselves, classmates and animals to discover that everyone has their own special prints. They will also learn that our prints are sometimes used to discover who we are, which way we were going and what we have touched. To begin the lesson and hook the students before they enter into the classroom prints will be place on the floor in the class (The prints will be stamped on the floor with paint that was left on the counter as if they got in the paint and made a mess all over the room). The door and the window will be open. The problem is who made these prints? Was it an animal or human? This problem is relevant to my students because it will inform them that everyone have their own special print including animals. The students will start their investigations by first making prints of the fingers and hands. We will discuss what we see on our hands. They will look closely under magnifying glasses to discover the differences by counting the lines, circles and swirls. They will compare their prints with their classmates and write similarities and differences. Next we will investigate animal foot prints by using technology. The students will give ideas of the animal they think come through the window and left the prints in the classroom. Each animal that the students suggested will be viewed and their paw prints will be observed. After the web search, each group of students will be given a copy of an animal’s prints that I have places around the room. Each group will have a different print. They will have to check each print to find the match. To assess the students they will have to tell the characteristic of their animal’s prints and which animal does it belong to. The students will also have to write a story about their animal and why they think they came into the classroom.
 * Lesson Title **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: Who made these prints?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grade level: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Kindergarten
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Subject area addressed: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Science, Math, and Language Arts
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GOALS ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lesson outcome: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Content Area Standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Language Arts **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Math **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Science **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ISTE-NETS-S **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lesson description: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ACTIONS ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Problem: Who made the prints animal or human? How do you know? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">DURING CLASS ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Instructional activities ** ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sandra,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I like how you are incorporating technology and using the internet to search for information with your students at the Kindergarten age. How often do you use technology with students at this age? I feel that it would be difficult to have online collaboration with these aged students. How do you approach this problem?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Thanks, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bryan

Hi Bryan,

I use technology with my students everyday. I do some calendar activities on my Promethean board. I also use my board for reading and math activities. The students have center time on the students computer daily and we go to the computer lab once a week for 45 minutes. It is difficult at the beginning. I approach this problem by modeling it over and over and over again. Above level students will get it. I will have to work more closely with the below level students because they are still working on their writing skills a lot.

Sandra

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18px;">Online Collaborative Lesson ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Daily Lesson Plan ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GOALS <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**ELAKR5** The students acquire and read grade level word to communicate effectively. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**ELAKR6** The students gains meaning of orally presented text. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**ELAKW1** The student will begin to understand the principles of writing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**ELAKW2**The students begin to write in a variety of genres including narratives <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**ELAKLSV1** The student use oral and visual <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**SCIENCE:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**SKL2** The students will compare similarities and differences in groups of organism kills to communicate. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Communication and collaboration <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Technology operation and concepts <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Research and information fluency <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">To begin this lesson and hook my students, we will first review want was found in the class when we returned from specials the day before. Next, I will read a story title “Whose Footprints Is That? (Animal Detectives). **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During Class ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10 minutes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20 minutes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Listen to the story “Whose Footprints Is That? (AnimalDetectives)”. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Make a chart of the animals we read about in the story. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Writing activity. The students will write sentences about the prints using describing words. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">story book chart paper, markers writing paper, pencils || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5 minutes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20minutes || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Day 2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Review previous day lesson and writing. Discuss what will we need to ask someone if we wanted help finding out who made the prints. (Many of the sentences will be the same). I will make a chart of the sentences that we will use. We will chose four to five to post. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The students will be introduced to our class blog sight. (I would explain that we can get help finding out what made the foot prints by writing note and sentences about it to other classes. I would also explain that all notes, letters and sentences are not written on paper that we sometimes use the technology or the internet to communicate and write feeling and information on). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">(Prior to me showing the student the page the teacher that I am working with will post a blog asking about the animal’s prints that are in her room. I will have done the same for her class to also get them interested.) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Until the students get to the independent writing/typing the students will dictate their response to the blog as I type. I will allow the students to sound out the words to help with the spelling. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students writing journals. Chart paper, markers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Promethean Board, Kidblog website. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20 minutes || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Day 3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Review previous lesson. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Today we will return back to the blog to check the responses of the other class. The student will begin checking the response to see if the tracks are the same. (Some will be). ||  ||
 * Week 6 Online Collaboration**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lesson Title **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: Who Made the Foot Print**?**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grade Level **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: Kindergarten
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Subject Areas Addressed: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> ELA, Science
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lesson Outcome: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The students will learn to collaborate and communicate by writing simple questions and answer through a classroom blog using phonetically spelled words. They will learn that we can use technology to ask for help when we are in search of something and to community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Content Standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ELAKR1 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> the student demonstrate knowledge of the concept of print.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Math **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">MKD1 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The students will pose information questions, collect data organize and display results using objects pictures and picture graphs.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ISTE-NETS-S **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lesson Description: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this lesson the student will become detectives by communicate with students in another class to find out if the prints in their class are the same as the prints in ours. I will do this by asking questions and describing the prints that were left in the class. I will lead the discussion by asking the students questions about how the prints look including how big, small and how many finger or toes it has.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Before the lesson: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I have set up a class blog page through Kidblog.org. I will collaborate with another kindergarten teacher in my building who will also share in the “who done it” activity. After the initial finding of the prints, it will be announced that something left prints in another classroom also.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ACTIONS: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Time ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Instructional Activities ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Materials and Resources ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10 minutes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">15 minutes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5 minute

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">For my kindergarten students the assessment for blogging will be on going as we continue to collaborate with the other class. I will assess them on their writing as I begin to allow them to type in their own response.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sandra, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I like how you are using online collaboration to help teach your students to write, especially at teh Kindergarten age. I am a little confused as to what students will be including on the blog under the instructional activities section of your lesson. Will students be rewriting or rewording the questions they were writing from the day before?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Thanks, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bryan

Hi Bryan,

Thank you for your response. My kindergarten students will actually be coping the questions from the day before. Some of the students I have can write the sentences without coping them but a few will have to copy them.

Sandra