KG 1

WEEK SEVEN
 WEEKLY LESSON PLAN FOR

DATE: 14/10/2019 STRAND: ALL ABOUT ME

DAY: Monday
SUB STRAND: PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM
CLASS: KG1 HOME AND ROAD ACCIDENTS
CONTENT STANDARD: INDICATORS: K1.1.6.1.1 K1.1.6.1.3
K1.1.6.1 Demonstrate
understanding of measures to PERFORMANCE INDICATOR:
take to keep safe (from • Talk about possible accidents we can have at home and at
school and safety measures we can take to avoid them.
accidents, hurts, and harms).
• Listen to and respond to a read aloud text about keeping
safe in the environment.
CORE COMPETENCE: Communication and collaboration (CC) Personal Development and Leadership
(PL), Critical thinking and innovation (CI) Creativity.
KEY WORDS:

PHASE/DURATION LEARNERS ACTIVITIES RESOURCES

PHASE 1: STARTER Have learners to sing familiar songs and recite

10 rhymes they know.
MINS
(Preparing the Brain ROLL
for Learning) Everyday roll, everybody roll, everybody roll, roll,
roll.

LITTLE FINGER
Little finger, little finger where are you,
Here I am, here I am how do you do

Middle finger, middle finger where are you,

Here I am, here I am how do you do

Index finger, index finger where are you,

Here I am, here I am how do you do

Ring finger, ring finger where are you,

Here I am, here I am how do you do

Thumb finger, thumb finger where are you,

Here I am, here I am how do you do
PHASE 2: MAIN During the community circle time, when learners Poster/ cut out picture
40MINS sit in a semi-circle, introduce the sub-theme and depicting causes and
(New Learning have them talk about the possible home and/or prevention of
road accidents that occur. accidents. Cut out
Including
Assessment) shapes, big books,
counters, crayons
Put them in three smaller groups and ask them to
come up with practical examples of how such
accidents happen at home, at school, and on the
way to school.

Have them present their findings by role-playing

the various accidents and how to avoid them.

Have learners suggest safety measures we can

take to avoid such accidents

Teach the rhyme “if you see a traffic light, there

is something you should know, red means stop…”
and have learners recite it with you with actions

Using the KWL strategy as in the previous lesson,

let the Learners tell you what learners know
about the sub-theme, what they want to know,
before you read (the BIG BOOK) to them.

Let learners share what they have learnt about

safety measures we need to take to prevent
accidents (hurts, and harm from sharp objects,
electricity, boiling water, etc.).

Practice some safety measures of how to cross

the road, how to hold a knife.

Learners role play using these safety measures at

home.
(Reference: A big book on protection against
hurt, harms, sharp objects, strangers, electricity
and hot water.)

Take Learners out of the class to the field for a

stretch up.

Engage Learners to use any of the play toys

available.

Make a choice to use any of the learning centers

created
 Listen to a story on road accidents

Assessment: call out learners in turns and have

them talk about home accidents and how to
avoid them.
PHASE 3: Review lesson with Learners by singing songs in
REFLECTION 10MINS relation to it
(Learner and
Teacher)
DATE: 15/10/2019 STRAND: ALL ABOUT ME

DAY: Tuesday
SUB STRAND: PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM
CLASS: KG1 HOME AND ROAD ACCIDENTS
CONTENT STANDARD: INDICATORS: K1.1.6.1.2 K1.1.6.1.4
K1.1.6.1 Demonstrate
understanding of measures to PERFORMANCE INDICATOR:
take to keep safe (from • Learners can recognize that spoken words are represented in
accidents, hurts, and harms). written language in books.
• Learners can clap and count syllables in longer words

CORE COMPETENCE: Communication and collaboration (CC) Personal Development and Leadership
(PL), Critical thinking and innovation (CI) Creativity
KEY WORDS:

PHASE/DURATION LEARNERS ACTIVITIES RESOURCES

PHASE 1: STARTER 10 Have learners to sing familiar songs and recite rhymes
MINS they know.
(Preparing the Brain
for Learning) THE WHEELS ON THE BUS
The wheels on the bus goes round and round
Round and round; round and round
The wheels on the bus goes round and round All
through the town.

The dog on the bus goes woof, woof, woof

woof, woof, woof; woof, woof, woof The
dog on the bus goes woof, woof, woof All
day long.

(Continue with sounds made by familiar animals)

PHASE 2: MAIN Teacher and learners do a picture walk through the Poster/ cut out
40MINS Big book, page by page. picture depicting
(New Learning causes and
Including Ask learners to tell their story about the pictures. prevention of
Using LEA (Language Experience Approach) have accidents. Cut out
Assessment)
learners dictate their stories to you and write it down. shapes, big books,
counters, crayons
Read it and have learners echo you word by word.

Read the story to them and have learners compare

 their story to the author’s version to see if they are
similar or different.

Through art work, have learners indicate the part of

the story they liked most.

Introduce learners to reading longer words such as

objects (2 syllables), strangers (2 syllables), electricity
(5 syllables) and water (2 syllables), Traffic (2
syllables) etc.

Let them know that we break words according to the

syllables.

Practice clapping these words and counting the

number of syllables in them.

Have learners add the syllables in some selected

words e.g. water and understand (2 syllables + 3
syllables = 5 syllables).

Extend the activity to include other objects

Take Learners out of the class to the field for a stretch

up.

Engage Learners to use any of the play toys available.

Make a choice to use any of the learning centers

created

Listen to a story on road accidents

Assessment:
PHASE 3: Review lesson with Learners by singing songs in
REFLECTION 10MINS relation to it
(Learner and
Teacher)
DATE: 16/10/2019 STRAND: ALL ABOUT ME

DAY: Wednesday
SUB STRAND: PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM
CLASS: KG1 HOME AND ROAD ACCIDENTS
CONTENT STANDARD: INDICATORS: K1.1.6.1.5
K1.1.6.1 Demonstrate
understanding of measures to PERFORMANCE INDICATOR:
take to keep safe (from Learners can use vocabulary learnt to express and demonstrate how
accidents, hurts, and harms). to protect themselves from hurt, harm, strangers, sharp objects,
electricity and water.
CORE COMPETENCE: Communication and collaboration (CC) Personal Development and Leadership
(PL), Critical thinking and innovation (CI) Creativity
KEY WORDS:

PHASE/DURATION LEARNERS ACTIVITIES RESOURCES

PHASE 1: STARTER 10 Have learners to sing familiar songs and recite

MINS rhymes they know.
(Preparing the Brain
for Learning) ONE LITTLE FINGER
One little finger, One little finger Two
little fingers, tap, tap, tap!
Point to the ceiling, point to the floor, Put
them on your head, HEAD!

(continue by pointing to other parts of the body)

PHASE 2: MAIN In pairs, learners use words acquired from the Poster/ cut out picture
40MINS read-aloud text to teach each other how to avoid depicting causes and
(New Learning accidents occurring from fire, electricity, sharp prevention of
objects, crossing the road. E.g. Don’t go near, accidents. Cut out
Including
Assessment) shapes, big books,
Don’t touch electrical wires. Using “Show and counters, crayons
tell” have learners pick drawn cut out objects
that can cause accidents and tell how they can
keep safe from that object.

Have learners match objects with their related

accidents they can cause

Take Learners out of the class to the field for a

stretch up.

Engage Learners to use any of the play toys

available.

Make a choice to use any of the learning centers

created

Listen to a story on health and environment

Assessment:
PHASE 3: Review lesson with Learners by singing songs in
REFLECTION 10MINS relation to it
(Learner and
Teacher)
DATE: 17/10/2019 STRAND: ALL ABOUT ME

DAY: Thursday
SUB STRAND: PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM
CLASS: KG1 HOME AND ROAD ACCIDENTS
CONTENT STANDARD: INDICATORS: K1.1.6.1.6
K1.1.6.1 Demonstrate
understanding of measures to PERFORMANCE INDICATOR:
take to keep safe (from Learners can describe the attributes of 3-D objects and sort objects
accidents, hurts, and harms). into planes and 3-D objects.

CORE COMPETENCE: Communication and collaboration (CC) Personal Development and Leadership
(PL), Critical thinking and innovation (CI) Creativity
KEY WORDS:

PHASE/DURATION LEARNERS ACTIVITIES RESOURCES

PHASE 1: STARTER Have learners to sing familiar songs and recite

10 rhymes they know.
MINS
(Preparing the Brain FIVE LITTLE DUCKS
for Learning) Five little ducks went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mother duck said “quack, quack, quack” And
only four little ducks came back.

Four little ducks went out one day

Over the hills and far away
Mother duck said “quack, quack, quack” And
only three little ducks came back.

(continue until all the little ducks are exhausted)

PHASE 2: MAIN Revise the description of the attributes of 3-D Poster/ cut out picture
40MINS and call learners to show you show examples of depicting causes and
(New Learning 3-D objects in the classroom. prevention of
Including accidents. Cut out
Ask learners to sort the different objects they shapes, big books,
Assessment)
brought from home into planes and 3D objects counters, crayons
and bring other examples.

Have each child draw two 3D objects e.g. A Tin

and box. Learners review the definition of a 3-D
object.
 Teach learners to recite 3D rhymes.

3D SHAPES
3D Shapes are fat and flat

A cone is like a party hat

A sphere is like a bouncy ball

A prism is like a building tall

A cylinder is like a can of pop

A CUBE IS LIKE THE dice you drop

3D Shapes are here and there

3D Shapes are everywhere

Have learners to recite the rhymes in turns and

dance with actions

Take Learners out of the class to the field for a

stretch up.

Engage Learners to use any of the play toys

available.

Make a choice to use any of the learning centers

created

Listen to a story on protecting ourselves from

home and road accidents

Assessment:
PHASE 3: Review lesson with Learners by singing songs in
REFLECTION 10MINS relation to it
(Learner and
Teacher)
DATE: 18/10/2019 STRAND: ALL ABOUT ME

DAY: Friday
SUB STRAND: PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM
CLASS: KG1 HOME AND ROAD ACCIDENTS
CONTENT STANDARD: INDICATORS: K1.1.6.1.7
K1.1.6.1 Demonstrate
understanding of measures to PERFORMANCE INDICATOR:
take to keep safe (from Learners can draw and colour five harmful objects that can cause
accidents, hurts, and harms). accidents.

CORE COMPETENCE: Communication and collaboration (CC) Personal Development and Leadership
(PL), Critical thinking and innovation (CI) Creativity
KEY WORDS:

PHASE/DURATION LEARNERS ACTIVITIES RESOURCES

PHASE 1: STARTER 10 Have learners to sing familiar songs and recite

MINS rhymes they know.
(Preparing the Brain
for Learning) STAND UP FOR POSITION
Stand up for posi, posi, posi, position
To your right posi, posi, posi, position
To your left posi, posi, posi, position
To your back posi, posi, posi, position
To your front posi, posi, posi, position
To your all posi, posi, posi, posi, position
PHASE 2: MAIN Give learners an outline of harmful objects to Poster/ cut out picture
40MINS colour or (if you don’t have) ask learners to draw depicting causes and
(New Learning and colour harmful objects and situations around prevention of
their homes. E.g. knife, pointed stick, fire, a accidents. Cut out
Including
person crossing the road.
Assessment) shapes, big books,
counters, crayons
Have learners talk about their drawings.

Teach learners rhymes on protecting ourselves

from home and road accidents
IF YOU SEE THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS If
you see the traffic lights, there is something
you should know.
 Red means stop

Yellow means get ready

Green means go, go, go

and go

Have learners to recite the rhymes in turns and

dance with actions

Make a choice to use any of the learning centers

created

Listen to a story on protecting ourselves from

home and road accidents

Assessment: have learners to draw and colour

five harmful objects that can cause accidents
PHASE 3: Teacher sings songs and recite rhymes in relation Sea saw, mary go
REFLECTION 10MINS to the lesson with learners round, and other play
(Learner and toys
Take learners out to the field.
Teacher)
Guide them to swing the sea-saw, sit on the
mary-go-round etc.

Sing rhymes and songs with learners as they play