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Sierra Nevada College Elementary Lesson Plan Sample: 1 Topics and Texts With Peers and Adults in Small and Larger Groups

This lesson plan sample is for a 1st grade language arts class. The lesson focuses on teaching students about the 5 senses as they relate to winter. Students will read a winter poem aloud and discuss how it describes the 5 senses. They will then work as a class to generate ideas for how each sense is experienced in winter, which will be posted as a reference. Students will individually complete a worksheet where they provide 3 examples for each sense pertaining to winter and draw a picture for each. If finished, students can write about a personal winter experience in their journals. The lesson aims to help students categorize and observe the 5 senses as they relate to winter and show their understanding through writing.

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Sierra Nevada College Elementary Lesson Plan Sample: 1 Topics and Texts With Peers and Adults in Small and Larger Groups

This lesson plan sample is for a 1st grade language arts class. The lesson focuses on teaching students about the 5 senses as they relate to winter. Students will read a winter poem aloud and discuss how it describes the 5 senses. They will then work as a class to generate ideas for how each sense is experienced in winter, which will be posted as a reference. Students will individually complete a worksheet where they provide 3 examples for each sense pertaining to winter and draw a picture for each. If finished, students can write about a personal winter experience in their journals. The lesson aims to help students categorize and observe the 5 senses as they relate to winter and show their understanding through writing.

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Sierra Nevada College Elementary Lesson Plan Sample

Teacher
Candidate:
Grade/Subject:
Lesson
Content:
SNC
Supervisor:

Jeanna Lanza
1st grade
Language Arts
Scoti Grower

Lead
Teacher:
District:
School:

Marnie Anderson

Time
Allotted:

60 Min.

TTUSD
Tahoe Lake Elementary

Materials, including technology:

Poster, worksheets, pens, paper, pencil, poem.


Standard(s), including literacy for all content areas and/or SMP

RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or
appeal to the senses.
W.1.3 Write narratives in which they recount two or 3 events. More appropriately
sequenced events include some details regarding what happened, use temporal
words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade
1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
L.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.

How will learning be assessed at the end of the unit/learning cycle (summative):

Students will have the chance to share descriptions of their 5 senses to their
shoulder partners. The teacher will observe conversations to check for
understandings. Students will also need to have their journal checked for correct
use of general grammatical practices.
Objective(s): high cognitive demand for diverse learners

Cognitive Level (DOK or


Blooms)

1. I can categorize the 5 senses when pertaining to


winter.

DOK

2. I can make observations of the 5 senses.

DOK

3. I can show what I learned through my writing.

DOK 2

4. I can connect my past knowledge about the 5 senses


and relate them to winter.

DOK 4

Connections to past learning or experience, building background

Sierra Nevada College Elementary Lesson Plan Sample


Students will have the opportunity to discuss with their partner which of the 5 sense
they feel in winter and provide examples for each. Teacher will implement the
winter poem and suggest some ideas that the students may have come across in
their daily lives.
Essential Vocabulary

Definitions

Smell

A way of perceiving things with your nose.

Taste

A way of perceiving
sensation of flavor.
A way of perceiving
A way of perceiving
A way of perceiving

Sight
Hearing
Touch

something through the


something with your eyes.
something with you ears.
something with your hands.

Strategy for teaching new vocabulary

Vocabulary will be taught through a whole class discussion as well has a poems and
a brainstorm poster.
Sequence and Scope of Instruction (include
instructional strategies, questions, opportunities
for meaning making through discourse and other
engagement strategies, formative assessments,
opportunities for metacognition, grouping,
differentiation and transitions)

Instructional Strategy

Estimate
d time

Read the poem out loud, whole class. Teacher


will discuss the different aspects of the
senses that are described throughout the
poem. All students will receive a copy of the
poem to place in their poetry folder. Students
will be asked to highlight short o words, as
well as circle sight words and underline
spelling words.

Winter Poem

5 Min

As a whole class teacher will prompt students


to brainstorm what winter, looks like, feels
like, smells like, tastes like, and hears like.
Teacher will prompt students to recall the
poem and other aspects of their classroom to
help them describe the 5 senses of winter.
Teacher will work with students to generate a
poster with ideas for each sense. This poster
will assist students in their writing about
winter and the 5 senses. Brainstorming
poster will be posted in the classroom for
reference. Students will also be encouraged
to use the winter word wall.

Brainstorm 5 Sense of
Winter

10 Min

Students will be provided with a winter

Winter 5 senses writing

15 Min

Sierra Nevada College Elementary Lesson Plan Sample


themed, 5 senses worksheet. Students will be
asked to provide three examples for each
sense pertaining to winter. Students will also
need to draw one picture in each presented
area for each sense.
10 Min
If the students finish the winter 5 senses
writing, students will have the opportunity to
write about a time they have experienced
their 5 senses in winter

Journal

Language Arts packet

Elf Packet

15 Min

Closure : specific activity to review content

Students will write in their journals about a specific time they experienced in the
winter.
Teacher Candidate Reflection on the lesson (after delivery)

[Type text]
SNC: April 3, 2014

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