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Content Area or Developmental Focus: Language Arts

Age/Grade of Children: 3-4 Years Old
Length of Lesson: 15 minutes
Goal
Objective
Standards Included

The purpose of this lesson is to assess language arts abilities.

The objective is for the children to be able to identify letters with their sound.
Standards are the knowledge or skills that students will be expected to
demonstrate. For ages 3-4 the standard is to be able to identify 6 or more
letters. I would like to include in that statement that children identify 6 or more
letters with their sounds. I teach letters with their sounds in my classroom to
make the transition to pre reading easier.

Materials
Introduction

Foam alphabet letters A-Z, alphabet tracing pages.

We will start by singing the alphabet, saying the sound each of our names
starts with, with guidance if needed. I will split the class into two groups with
half of the letters each. Children will be encouraged to guess letters and
sounds, with guidance towards the answers. What do we think Zzzzz says?
Once the children are separated into groups and interested one group will
identify the letters and sounds of the foam letters and the other group will
practice tracing letters on their tracing page. We will use uppercase and
lowercase ns for tracing this week. Students will have five minutes at each
station and with a five minute intro that gives us a short, concise lesson that
will hold their interest.
Often children who are three may be unable or even unwilling to trace letters
well. Children with physical disabilities may not be able to grasp a pencil or
crayon as well. Children will be encouraged to try, or to simply color their
page while the teacher repeats what n sounds like.
The lead teacher will be at the tracing table and the assistant teacher will be
with the foam letters group. The lead teacher will ask the children while they
work what each letter says and have a checklist with each childs name. Next
to each childs name the teacher will identify which letters they know.

Lesson Development:

Differentiation

Assessment
(Practice/ Checking for
Understanding)

Closing

We will sing our alphabet song again as transition into our next activity.

Lesson Plan Template

Developed by Kristina Bodamer and Jennifer Zaur, Full-Time Faculty, College of Education, ECE/CD Department

Content Area or Developmental Focus: Psychomotor Skills

Age/Grade of Children: 3-4 years old
Length of Lesson:
Goal

Assess catching and throwing abilities.

Objective

The objective is to have all of the children comfortable catching and throwing
a ball.

Standards Included
Standards for 3 and 4 year olds include being able to catch a large ball, and
throw a ball overheard.

Materials
Soft balls of various sizes, from baseball size to beach ball size. Paper shapes
and tape.

Introduction

I would have this activity outside in a grassy area, I would let the kids run and
kick and throw for a few minutes upon coming outside before giving
instruction, to get their wiggles out.

Lesson Development

I would have one station where children can throw their ball at paper shapes
taped to the outside of the building. One station where we can play hot potato,
tossing the ball around in a circle. One station with the children playing catch
with a teacher.
Children with physical disabilities or vision impairment may have trouble with
this activity. Balls can also be played with while seated, rolled around slowly,
or simply held.
The station with one teacher playing catch with one student will be rotating,
each student will be assessment via this game. The teacher will throw the ball
softly to the child, see if they can catch it. The child then can throw the ball
back to the teacher overhead. The teacher can make note of each childs ability.

Differentiation

Assessment
(Practice/ Checking for
Understanding)

Closing
Children love to clean up when it is fun, so we will crazy clean and run to
clean up all the balls and bring them to the teacher as transition to our next
activity.
Developed by Kristina Bodamer and Jennifer Zaur, Full-Time Faculty, College of Education, ECE/CD Department

Developed by Kristina Bodamer and Jennifer Zaur, Full-Time Faculty, College of Education, ECE/CD Department