Ashley Hunsinger
AITC Lesson Plan #2
Title: Introduction to Farm Animals (this will be the first lesson of a week long unit on farm animals)
Audience: Pre-K
Duration: 25 mins.
Objectives:
Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the types of animals that live on a farm by holding up the correct colored stick at least 75% of the time.
Process Skills:
Classifying
Communicating
Standards:
#6 – Progresses in abilities to initiate and respond appropriately in conversation and discussions with peers and adults.
#15 – Shows growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of fiction and nonfiction books and poetry.
#52 – Expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe, and discuss the natural world, materials, living things, and natural processes.
#56 – Participates with increasing interest and enjoyment in a variety of music activities, including listening, singing, finger plays, games, and performances.
#95 – Shows increasing levels of proficiency, control and balance in walking, climbing, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching and galloping.
Materials: toy farm animals, toy animals that do not live on a farm, “Cock a Moo Moo” book, green and red sticks (enough for each child to have one of each color), brown paper bag
Anticipatory Set:
After the students have a seat on the carpet, teacher will tell students that she is going to pretend to be an animal and they must try to guess what animal she is. First, the teacher will act out the animals without making any noise. If the students can’t guess, then the teacher will give another hint by making the sound of the animal. Teacher will pretend to be a horse, pig, cow, sheep, and chicken.
Procedures:
1) Teacher will introduce the farm animals by holding small toy animals up one at a time. The teacher will tell the children the name of each animal and we will discuss some things we notice about the animal (how it looks, how many legs, etc.).
2) Teacher will read “Cock a Moo Moo” to children. While reading we will discuss what the problem is in the story, and will discuss the correct sound that each animal should make.
3) As a group, we will sing “Old McDonald Had a Farm.” Teacher will call on children to say an animal and we will fill in the song in this manner. This will allow students to think about what animals live on a farm and what sounds those animals make.
4) Next, each child will be instructed to think of a farm animal that they would like to pretend to be. We will form a circle and have an animal parade. While walking around the circle, the children will pretend to be the animal they’ve chosen.
5) After the parade the children will return to the carpet to have a seat.
Assessment/ Closure:
While sitting on the carpet, each child will be given two popsicle sticks. One stick has a green circle at the top, and the other has a red circle at the top. The teacher will randomly pull out a toy animal from a brown paper bag. If that animal lives on a farm the children will be instructed to hold up their green stick. However, if that animal does not live on a farm, then the children should hold up their red stick. The teacher will observe which children seem to have a basic understanding of which animals live on a farm and which do not.