Amelia Wills
Lesson Plan
Date: Subject:
Nov. 20th, 2018 Literacy and Art
Lesson Objectives:
• Students will demonstrate
attentive listening and
focus while story is being
read
• Students will recall events
that happened in the
storybook read to them
• Students will use fine motor
skills to glue and decorate
their art project
• Students will demonstrate
artistic expression through
designing and decorating
their art project
Lesson Topic:
The Very Hungry Bear
GLO and SLO:
The child listens, speaks, reads, writes,
views and represents to comprehend and
respond personally and critically to
oral, print and other media texts. (P.
11-12)
• understands that print and books are
organized in predictable ways.
• begins to use language prediction
skills when stories are read aloud
• asks questions and makes comments
during listening and reading
activities
• recalls events and characters in
familiar stories read aloud by others
• identifies and generates rhyming
words in oral language
• participates in shared listening,
reading and viewing experiences,
using oral, print and other media
texts from a variety of cultural
traditions and genres, such as
picture books, fairy tales, rhymes,
stories, photographs, illustrations
and video programs
• listens and views attentively
• develops a sense of story through
reading, listening and viewing
experiences
The child develops positive relationships
with others. (P. 28)
• demonstrates a positive, caring
attitude toward others; e.g.,
expresses and accepts encouragement
and demonstrates fair play
The child develops fine motor and
perceptual motor skills through
participation in a variety of activities.
(P. 30)
 • develops perceptual–motor skills
through activities involving eye–hand
coordination; e.g., looking at
picture books, stringing beads,
cutting, pasting, drawing and collage
work.

The child explores self-expression

through creative thought and through
language, art, movement, music and drama
(P. 32)

• explores and expresses ideas,

Introduction:
• Have students sitting on the carpeta variety of forms;
quietly
• Introduce book “The Very Hungry • experiments with a variety of art
Bear”
• Ask to raise hands to answer
questions
• Ask students what the two different
kinds of bears on the cover are
Body:
• Read the “Very Hungry Bear” to
students
• Talk about what the cartoon bears
are doing that real bears do not do
(ie. Fishing, living in igloos)
• Talk about sharing in book (Grizzly
Bear shares his home… Polar Bear
shares his food)
• Ask to predict what’s going to
happen next throughout reading
• After reading book talk about the
differences between the two bears
(colour, where they live)
• Show pictures of what actual polar
bears and brown/grizzly bears look
like
• Introduce Craft, show examples
Assessment:
perceptions, feelings and thoughts in
• Check e.g.,
for prior art, music,
knowledge by
drama and movement
engaging them in discussion
materials to create two- and three-
dimensional forms
Assessment:
• Observing students for
attentive listening
• Ask discussion questions
throughout book to check for
focus and engagement,
identifying rhyming words,
and understanding of
sequencing
• Ask questions after book to
check for ability to recall
what was read to them
• Observe students while they
are decorating and gluing to
check for fine motor skills
and proper pencil grip.

Day One of Craft

• Once at stations, call a few people
to my table at a time, give
instructions: step 1) put name on
sheet 2) Choose which bear 3) Cover
student’s hand in paint and place on
blue paper.

Day Two of Craft

 • Pull students to centre during
playtime in groups of 4 or 5 to have
them decorate their hand print into
bears and glue cotton balls or twigs
and rocks

Closure: Assessment:
• Closure will be done on day two • Engage students in discussion
while they are wrapping up their to check for students ability
craft to recall what happened in
• Ask where each of the bear lives the story the day before and
Learning Resources/Materials:
• Do you think polar bears and grizzly what we had previously
• “The
bears are Very
friends in real
Hungry Bear”life?
Book discussed.
• Ask
• Books
students to photos
with clean upofafter they
real-life polar bears and grizzly bears
are finished and to put their new
• Example craft
bear friends away
• Blue Paper
• White and brown paint
• Twigs and rocks
• Cotton balls
• Black marker
• Glue