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Lesson Plan

Lesson Topic: The Seasons of Arnolds Apple Tree

Grade:

Date: 10/4/16

LESSON OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to answer questions and provide key details about the literature
provided. Students will be able to recognize key sight words that have been introduced previously. Students will
be able to identify and describe patterns or sequencing in the text. Also students will be able to demonstrate
knowledge and skills to recognize key points within the text. Students will be able to apply prior skills and
knowledge as well as knowledge from the text to complete classroom activities.
State Standard:
RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, setting, and major events in the story.
RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts.
RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in the text.
RF.K.2a Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds: Recognize and produce rhyming
words.
RF.K.2e Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Instruction:
Students are introduced to the new day of the week.
Students are asked for the correct day, with
prompting and support recite the name of the prior
day, and predict the next day.
To recall the prior days learning and activities,
students are asked questions during their morning
message that will promote further learning on the
subject while activating prior knowledge. Questions
will also include newly introduced sight words, and
key details of the days upcoming lesson.
After phonemic awareness and word lessons,
students are instructed to sit on the carpet for group
reading. Students are introduced to the four seasons,
and the life cycle of an apple tree. Students are also
introduced to a variety of ways apples can be eaten.
For the apple lesson, students have been working on
a project of what ripe and rotten apples look like.
Discussions take place about why the apple has
turned rotten and why the apples still on trees stay
ripe.
Sequencing is reviewed and practiced at this time.
Questions are prompted at the end of the literature
reading.
After story is read, the students are sent to their
seats for an individual project on apples. This
project is also from the reading from the day prior.

QUESTIONS / PROMPTS:
Today is _______
Can an apple tree grow in the winter?
How many seasons are there, and what are their names?

For each activity, after students have been given


instruction, students are to proceed with completing the
task. Continuous monitoring and roaming of the room is
done.
For station one, the students are knowledgeable with the
CD player to play the audio book. Students are given a
worksheet that gives them a place to draw their favorite
part of the story.
Station two, the students are shown what sentence they are
to complete on the worksheet. The directions are repeated
for all students. I can see an apple tree. Students are told
to cut and paste the words to
Station three is phonics/word games.
Station four is a review of Arnolds Apple Tree, and the
poem of the four season. The poem is in the correct order
of the seasons, and the students must correct it.

Group activity:
A variety of apples have been brought in by the
class and are cut at the end of the week. The
students learn there are thousands of types of
apples, but they will be learning about three. The
students will be doing a taste test and answering the
question Why do they taste different? Does it
matter where they grow that causes them to look
and taste different?

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