Calendar Lesson Plan

Name: Lanie Hesse

Mentor: Amber Johnson
Liaison: Rhonda Clark
Subject/Grade: Calendar & Language/Pre-k
Time: 45 minutes- it may not go this long
Date: February 16, 2015
Objectives:
Calendar:
The students will be able to observe how sentences are written through repeating what the
teacher says and watching what she writes on the board.
The students will be able to match and associate the letters with their sounds through songs and
flash cards.
The students will be able to identify words that begin with each letter of the alphabet through
songs and movements.
The students will be able to count to 100 while pointing to each number on the 100s chart and
count to 100 through a song.
The students will be able to recognize and model an A-B-C pattern through the use of
shapes/colors while the teacher is helping them and putting what the students are telling her to
put on the board.
The students will be able to model a pattern while repeating what a song has them do (Tooty
Ta).
The students will be able to describe what the weather is like outside by looking out the window.
The students will be able to get fit through the song Get fit to 100.
The students will be able to recognize the months of the year and days of the week and how
many are in each through reciting each the months of the year and days of the week and song.
Language Arts:
The student is able to recite the sound that letter S makes.
The student is able to trace the upper and lower case letters correctly without guidance.

Material/Resources/Equipment Needed:
Calendar:
Promethean Board/ Pen
Calendar Program
Dry erase board dry erase markers
Pointer
Flash cards (alphabet, numbers/shapes, picture/letter/word/sentence, and color cards)
Songs:
- Hello Friends
-12 Months!
-How Many Days are in a Week?
-Get Fit to 100

-Number Word Rap

-Learnin My Letters
-Alphardy
-Tooty Ta
-Shake Break
-A-Z Phonics Song
-Vowel Sound Samba
Language:
-Silly Snake song/book
-Mr. Pencil DVD (show on promethean board)
-Ss Tracer page
Anticipatory Set: Sing Hello Friends when everybody is at the carpet ready to go. This song
is to signal when calendar is beginning.
Instructional Delivery: I will be teaching in front of the class while the students are on the
carpet in a whole group. Calendar will consist of singing together, students helping me count,
assisting at the board, telling me what the weather is, repeating words that I say or flash cards
that I say, and telling me answers to questions that I have. Language Arts consists of
Reading/Singing letter S song. We will watch Mr. Pencil and then discuss the tracing activity that
needs to be done.
Calendar:
After we sing our introductory song I will call on a student to come up and participate in the
interactive calendar.
We will then move on to talking about the months of the year. (What are they called? How many
are there?)
Sing the song 12 Months!
Move on to discuss the Days of the Week (What are these? How many are there?)
Sing the song How Many Days are in a Week?
Put the correct day on the month September (students need to help me count through today. We
will have to fill in the weekend days too.
Write on the board the correct date and the objective for the week (students repeat what I say as I
write the date and objective.)
Time for singing: (some songs require sitting and others students will have to stand so they can
move around).
-Get Fit to 100
-Number Word Rap
-Learnin My Letters
-Alphardy
-Tooty Ta
-Shake Break

 Rhyming word of the day. Have students help you sound out word of the day. Call on students to
give you rhyming words. If needed go down alphabet to help come up with words or give slight
hints along the way.
On the 100s chart I will have a helper come up and help me and the class count 1-100, then
down from 10 (Say Blast Off! after one), by 5s to 100, and by 10s to 100. (Have students tell
me what to count by until all are chosen)
Choose two different shapes to create an A-B-C pattern. (Allow students to tell me what comes
next. Ask students how we label this type of pattern.) Label pattern. Say pattern by shapes,
colors, and letters.
Choose a student to go check the weather in the window. The rest of the students and I sing
What will the weather be then she/he said
Go through each to make sure student made the right choice and color in the next square
available on that section. (Discuss how many days in February have we had that are sunny, rainy,
and so forth.)
Choose another helper to help you point to the alphabet as we sing the A-Z Phonics Song.
After A-Z song discuss Vowels and sing the Vowel Sound Samba
For Todays News choose children that have been quiet to tell you any news that they have (it
can be whatever they want).
Time for our flash cards: (Students repeat after you say whats on each card)
-Alphabet
-Numbers/Shapes
-Colors
-Color/Number Words
Language:
Introduce the letter Ss by making the sound /s/ and referring to saying we said we were learning
about it at calendar.
Read/Sing the song Silly Snake using big book.
After singing it, watch Mr. Pencil and sing song with DVD one more time.
Watch Mr. Pencil write both upper and lower case letters.
Write Ss on board one more time for everyone to see how to write them all week.
Introduce tracer page. Show how to be nice and neat.
Call students up one at a time to give you the sound letter S makes one last time.
Have them go to their seats to get started.
Once they finish give them a sticker on the page and have them turn it into their mailboxes.
They then need to go to their carpet spot to wait for the next lesson.
Check for Understanding: Ask students many questions throughout so that you can see if they
understand whats going.
Example Questions:
-

What are these called?

How many are there?

What comes after a sentence?

What comes next in the pattern?
What sound does the letter make?
And any other questions that come up.

If students seem confused about something take time to review or go over what the confusion is
about.
Guided Practice:
I am going to guide students through the whole calendar. They give me the answers while I am
guiding them through the calendar. They assist me, repeat what I write, do the flash cards with
me (this is all a guided process). Read/Sing Silly Snake and Watching Mr. Pencil.
Independent Practice:
Students will be given a tracer page that they have to independently trace the Ss and color the
pictures that are given.
Closure:
Before I move on to the flash cards I will emphasize that we have made it to Mr. Robot and have
finished our calendar time. We will review what the today is and what we will be doing for that
day and for the rest of the week (our objectives). Closure would be practicing the /s/ as a ticket to
their seat to practice writing their Ss.