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Early Childhood Education

Name: Peyton Bernard Lesson Title: Fishing Color and Counting Recognition
Date: April 11, 2017 Grade Level: Pre-Kindergarten
Standards/Guidelines: Cognitive Skills: Symbolic Thought: Participate cooperatively in complex pretend play, involving assigned roles and an overall plan.
Number Sense: Number Sense and Counting: Understand that the last number spoken tells the number of objects counted.
Algebra: Group and Categorize: Sort and classify objects by one or more attributes (e.g., size, number)
Algebra: Patterning: Recognize, duplicate and extend simple patterns using attributes such as color, shape or size.
Science Inquiry & Application: Inquiry: Describe, compare, sort, classify, and order.
Motor Development: Small Muscle: Touch, Grasp, Reach, & Manipulate: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate
objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Students have had the book Swimmy by: Leo Lionni
Students have watched a video about schooling fish & then moved around the classroom as a group of schooling fish
Students drew pictures of their classroom fish in their fish journal
Students were introduced to books about fish body parts labeling them as a class and discussing how they help
fish swim
Students were given pictures of fish to label and added to their fish journal

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Assessed Instructional Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
Objective(s): The student will be to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and Colors: Blue
able to... skill?) Yellow
Orange
Engage with their peers in the Take pictures and use a checklist Red
fishing game taking turns and As evidence to determine if the students have met the Green
being aware of what is asked of objectives, the educator should take pictures throughout Purple
them the activity, create a checklist to document throughout the Numbers: One Ten
process which students are mastering and which students Fishing
Count and recall how many fish seem to be struggling with the concepts. And at the end of Fishing Pole Magnet on the end
they have caught the lesson, review what has been documented throughout Pond
the activity.
Sort and discuss what color fish Procedural steps:
they have caught and catch a fish Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
of similar attributes your evidence into a class or group view? This is not how Students will be split into two groups to allow more room
to display childrens work) around the pond and more sharing of the fishing pole.
Describe, Sort, and Order what Once split into groups, the first group will gather around the
type/color of fish they have caught Use the checklist to observe and look at the whole group pond
in the pond -Identify through a checklist which students have grasped The students will be instructed to tell the teacher what color
and understand the difference between colors and are fish they are going to be catching out of the pond
Use fine motor skills to manipulate able to count with limited mistakes Once the student has told the teacher, he/she is to use
the fishing pool and connect the his/her fine motor skill to catch a fish
magnets to catch the correct fish Magnets will be glued to the fish, and another magnet will be
on the end of the fishing line allowing for the students to
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Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Plan

carefully lower the fishing line into the pond and catch a fish
One Assessed Developmental Analysis: (What have you learned about your students?
Skill: (Social, Emotional, Physical, How will this inform future instruction?) For more advanced students they can complete a
Language, or Cognitive) worksheet having columns with each color of fish, and
After this lesson, an educator should have a good idea of students will add a fish to each column of the color of fish
Physical: The mastery of using his/her students knowledge and understanding of basic they have caught from the pond.
fine motor skills to steady the colors and counting, along with basic fine motor skills
fishing pole, allowing for the For future instruction, the educator can incorporate these Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
students to catch the correct fish. words (colors and counting) into daily discussion or materials.)
questions for those that may be struggling. Along with -Fishing pools
Safety Considerations: incorporating activities that may encourage the use of fine -Tub
Teachers should be aware of how motor skills. -Cut out paper fish variety of colors
many fishing pools are being used For those that are more advanced, the educator could have -Worksheet for students to document what color fish they
and what students are handling the student answer questions on a worksheet, or have have caught and how many
them. them fill out a basic graph to show how many of each color
fish they have caught.
For those struggling, the teacher could have them work Adult Roles:
with a partner to catch the fish they are wanting, or repeat Adults should supervise the student to oversee that they are
the color of the fish once they have caught it. sharing the fishing pools.
For those with special needs, the teacher could have them Seeing as no water is being used, the tub filled with fish
reach into the pond and grab the fish that they have said should not be a safety concern.
they are going to catch

Resources & Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUKJjVXT0Ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LABzJxCg8
https://www.amazon.com/One-Fish-Two-Blue-Book/dp/0375834974
https://delightfulchildrensbooks.com/2011/11/08/fish/