Unit Title: Cycle of Seasons: Harvest

Lesson Seed

Unit Title: Cycle of Seasons: Harvest
Grade Level: K
Lesson Seed: Week 4- Day 4
Essential Question: What is a seasonal cycle of apple trees?
Focus Question: How do people respond to the seasonal cycle?
Text/Resources
·  Apple Farmer Annie By Monica Wellington
·  Song: “4 Seasons in a Year”
·  Technology Connection: YouTube- Homemade Apple Cider Press http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3JtYX9Ig0&feature=related
·  STEM Connection – Digital Camera for Photos of Gear Designs/Toy Gears
·  Interactive chart for Shared Reading
Standard(s):
SHARED READING STANDARDS
Reading – Literature
RLK.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RLK.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g, storybooks, poems).
RLK.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between the illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story the illustration depicts)
RLK.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Reading Foundational Skills
RFK.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Speaking and Listening
SLK.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
a.  Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
b.  Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
STEM Connection
Reading-Literature
RLK.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Speaking and Listening
SLK.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
a.  Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
b.  Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
SLK.5 Add drawing or other visual displays to descriptions to provide additional detail.
Student Outcomes
·  Students will be able to read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. (RFK.4)
·  Students will be able to participate in conversations about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. (SLK.1)
·  Students will be able to actively engage in group reading experiences with purpose and understanding. (RLK.10)
·  Students will be able to with prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. (RLK.2)
·  Students will be able to recognize different types of texts, distinguishing songs, poems, and stories. (RLK.5)
·  Students will be able to with prompting and support, describe the relationship between the illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story the illustration depicts) (RLK.7)
·  Students will be able to with prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (RLK.1)
·  Student will be able to add drawing or other visual displays to descriptions to provide additional detail. (SLK.5)
Sample Activities: Week 4, Day 4 – Lesson Seed
Shared Reading
Sing the song about the seasons “4 Seasons in a Year”. Reread interactive chart and review over for shared reading. Reinforce foundational skills. Revisit the text Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington to discuss how the illustrations contribute to the meaning of the story. Discuss how the reader knows that Annie finds satisfaction in her work. (May need to go over meaning of satisfaction)
STEM Connection:
Identify Annie’s problem: (she must remove the skin from the apples). Then, identify the tools that Annie uses: (review what tools means & discuss the knife and a peeler). Next, introduce more efficient peeling methods using technology: (rotary peeler/corer). Finally, introduce and demonstrate engineering design-(how gears work together to make things move): (cut, peel,core). Students will then be extending engineering design with using toy gears. Have students work in small groups to construct gear designs using the toy. Take digital photos of gear designs. Could also use Flip video recorder to record groups working together.
Technology Connection
YouTube- Homemade Apple Cider Press http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3JtYX9Ig0&feature=related

R/ELA.MSDE 8/5/12