Lesson Title: Celebrating George State Standard: SC.

K-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the values that American democracy represents and upholds. Common Core Standard: W.K.2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Indicator(s): SC.K-3.3: Describe the actions of important figures that reflect the values of American democracy, including George Washington Learning Objectives: The student will be able to write an important fact about George Washington with an illustration to support it. Essential Questions: What is an important fact about George Washington? Materials: What resources and materials will be needed during the lesson? -Promethean Board -Flipchart -Crayons or Markers -Pencils -Write and draw activity sheet Activities/Procedures (Describe each step in a bulleted list format): How will you establish the behavioral expectations for students? The teacher will tell students that she has the same expectations for them as their teacher does. She will remind them of what the expectations are for carpet time. What is the hook? On the promethean board, the teacher will show a picture of her house. The teacher will tell the students that this is her house. This is where she lives, eats and spends time with her family. She will ask 3 students what they do at their house. She will uncover a

picture of the White House. She will tell the students: this is the White House. Does anyone know who lives here? The president does. Every American president has lived in the White House for 214 years. There was only one president who didnt liv e there and that was the first ever president. Does anyone know what his name was? George Washington was our first president. How will activate prior knowledge of the students about this topic? George Washington was our first president, but who is our president now? What does a president do? What content will you teach/explain? The teacher will say: George Washington was a very important president. There are some really important facts you need to know about him. George Washington was our countrys first president. George Washington is known as the Father of Our Country. Can someone explain why you think we call him that? George Washington was a general in the Revolutionary War. This means that he was in charge of a big group of soldiers during a war. Although he helped plan our nations capital and it was named after him, he never lived there. Our capital is called Washington DC. George Washingtons face is on the one dollar bill and the quarter. George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. If he was still alive he would be 282 years old! Questioning: How will you illustrate an important fact about George Washington? (Analysis) How will you write an important fact about George Washington? (Synthesis) Can anyone explain why we call George Washington The Father of our Country? (Evaluate) What are some things you do at your house? Who lives in the White House?

Does anyone already know who our first president was? George Washington was our first president, but who is our president now? What does a president do? Does anyone want to predict which president we are going to study next? Assessment: Activity: On a write and draw activity sheet, the students will write one important fact sentence about George Washington with a related illustration. How it will be recorded: A rating scale will be use. How to Re-teach: During centers, the teacher will make a KWL chart with the students. Then the teacher will read excerpts from the book Who Was George Washington? to the students. Then together they will complete the rest of the KWL chart. Closure: Boys and girls, today we learned some very important things about George Washington. Help me fill in these blanks with what youve learned. George Washington wa s the _______________ president. His face is on the _______________ and the __________________. Washington was a __________________ in the War. He is known as the _______________ of our country. Now on Thursday, were going to learn about another president . Does anyone want to predict who it might be? Visual learners: The students will see content presented on the Promethean board, the teacher will model the assessment activity. Auditory learners: The teacher will explain content and assessment activity verbally. Kinesthetic learners: The students will write and illustrate facts. ESOL: Accommodations will be made as needed. Gifted: The teacher will have students write and draw about what they would do as president if they finish early.

Physical disabilities: Accommodations will be made as needed. Cognitive disabilities: Accommodations will be made as needed. Integrated Curriculum: ELA was integrated into Social Studies.

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Reflection This lesson went really well. The students had some previous knowledge of George Washington so they were familiar with him. After emailing a few days prior, my cooperating teacher told me the night before I taught that most of the students had trouble writing sentences. I had to be flexible so I told the kids that I wanted them to try their very best to write a sentence. I modeled how to write one and also reviewed how to begin and end a sentence. Most of the kids actually made an attempt so I was proud of them. Most of them finished the activity while I was trying to help some of the students finish writing a sentence. If I could go back and do it again, I would have those who already finished read a browsing book or write a letter to George Washington. All in all I felt like it went smoothly and I felt accomplished.