TEAM Lesson Plan
Teacher: Carol Smallwood
Class:
Kindergarten
Subject: Library
Date: Week 36 – May 14 - 18 - K
LESSON OVERVIEW
Time: 11:10-11:55
All books are due back this
week!
Friday’s class will get last
week’s lesson (silver bells)
Summary of the task, challenge, investigation, career-related scenario, problem, or
community link.
The students will review their final nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary”. The students will review the new words
and rhyming words in the rhyme. The students will learn about the parts of a flower and each part does. The students
will label each part of a sunflower and add sunflower seeds to their picture. The students will listen to a story “Sunflower
House” by Eve Bunting. The students will create their own itsy bitsy book about Mary, Mary Quite Contrary.
STANDARDS
Identify what you want to teach. Reference State, Common Core, ACT College
Readiness Standards and/or State Competencies.
RL.K.5 – recognize common types of texts (eg. story books, poems, etc.)
RL.K.10 – actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
L.K.4 – Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten
reading and content
GLE 0007.4.1 - Observe how plants and animals change as they grow.
OBJECTIVE
Clear, Specific, and Measurable – NOT ACTIVITIES
Student-Friendly
The student will review our nursery rhyme
The student will learn about the parts of a flower
The student will label the parts of a flower
The student will create a mini-book based on our nursery rhyme
LEADERSHIP CONNECTION
7 Habits
ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
Students show evidence of proficiency through a variety of assessments.
Aligned with the Lesson Objective
Formative/Summative
Performance-Based/Rubric
Formal/Informal
Assessment is informal. I will assess students as we learn about the parts of the flower by questioning and labeling
correctly.
MATERIALS
Aligned with the Lesson Objective
Rigorous & Relevant
Nursery rhyme sentence strips
Book: Sunflower House by Eve Bunting
Itsy Bitsy book
Sunflower Parts labeling sheet
Sunflower seeds
Glue / crayons
Scissors
ACTIVATING STRATEGY
Motivator/Hook
An Essential Question encourages students to put forth more effort when faced with
a complex, open-ended, challenging, meaningful and authentic questions.
Begin by reviewing our nursery rhyme “Mary, Mary Quite Contrary”
INSTRUCTION
Welcome to the library.
Step-by-Step Procedures-Sequence
Discover/Explain – Direct Instruction
Modeling Expectations – “I Do”
Questioning/Encourages Higher Order Thinking
Grouping Strategies
Differentiated Instructional Strategies to Provide Intervention & Extension
Begin by reviewing our nursery rhyme “Mary, Mary Quite Contrary”. Go over what contrary means (stubborn, wants
their own way, wants the opposite of what you want), what silver bells and cockle shells mean (what the flowers look
like – show the fake flowers and shells) and pretty maids (flowers just as pretty as pretty girls in the garden).
Ask a few questions about flowers “What do flowers need?” “What else grows in a garden?”
Discuss the parts of a plant – draw an example on the white board. Talk about each part:
1. Root - holds the plant in the ground and absorbs water and nutrients from the soil.
2. Stem - carries the water and nutrients to the rest of the plant. It also helps support it and direct the leaves towards
the sunlight for them to produce the food source for the plant.
3. Leaves - make food for the plant
4. Flowers - make the seeds to make new flowers
5. Seeds – drop from the flower to make new flowers
6. Petals – attracts insects to the flower for pollination
Show students the sunflower paper. Explain that they will correctly label each part of the plant. Then they will color the
sunflower. Last, they will glue sunflower seeds in to the middle of the flower (where the seeds are).
After this, move the rug. Read and discuss “Sunflower House” by Eve Bunting. Discuss the “house”. Ask students if they
would like to play in a sunflower house. What games could they play? How did the little boy gather the seeds in the fall?
Can you think of anything else that grows tall that you could make into a house?
Move back to the table. Make the little Mary Mary Quite Contrary books. Have kids color first. Then go over the parts of
the book to explain to them how to put the book together. Have them cut each page out and put together in the right
order. Marcia and I will go around and staple them together.
If we still have more time, read another fun book on the rug.
GUIDED & INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
“We Do”-“You Do”
Encourage Higher Order Thinking & Problem Solving
Relevance
Differentiated Strategies for Practice to Provide Intervention & Extension
Students will review their nursery rhyme. Students learn and label the parts of a flower.
CLOSURE
Reflection/Wrap-Up
Summarizing, Reminding, Reflecting, Restating, Connecting
At the end of class, recite the nursery rhyme as they line up.
CROSS-CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS
Language arts