Lesson Plan for Patterns

Lesson Plan for Class II

1. Main Course Book 2

Lesson 1: A and Z

Class II

Before commencing the lesson, it is very important to develop curiosity in the children; curiosity to know how you are going to start the lesson, what new things you will introduce while doing it, where the discussions will take place (you do not always have to study in the class room), what activities will be conducted and where the children can go (an outing or a picnic).

Learning Outcome / At the end of this lesson, the children should have made new friends, bonded well and should be comfortable with their peers. As this lesson is about two friends, a poem about friends or friendship can be done with the students. It should have plenty of actions and movement. The poem will work as an icebreaker and will help in bonding the children. This is important, as it is a fresh class for them, new peers and a new teacher.
Extra Poems /

As this story is in a comic form, you can scan all the pictures, if possible a larger size. Paste on a chart paper and cut out. You can laminate them if you want or cover with a plastic sheet. Punch holes on the side and tie them together with a colourful ribbon. Your personal storybook is ready! Introduction of the story in this form will enhance the attention span and concentration level of the children.
Let the girls colour facemasks of Anupama, the boys of Zubin and as a bonus, let all the children colour masks of a tiger. This can be given for homework or can be done in the art class. Tie an elastic string at the back of the mask so that the children can wear them. Your characters of the play are ready. Enacting a play not only builds interest in a child, it also enhances his/her concentration, attention span, liking for a subject or lesson, chromatic sense, awareness, thinking capacity, broadens his/her outlook etc.
Give the children a xeroxed copy of a tiger and let them colour it.
Game: Make a large picture of a tiger on a chart paper and put it up on the board, at a height the child can easily reach. Give him/her a tail with a small tape at the end. Blind fold a child and ask him/her to stick the tail on the animal.
Worksheets: ‘Cross the animals that do not live in the zoo’, ‘Colour the wild animals’, ‘Circle the animals you can keep at home’, ‘Draw/Circle the things you can take to school’.

Reading
2 days / Break the ice first. Talk to the children about a forest, wild and common/pet animals. A walk around the school compound will help them see some of the common animals like squirrel, cat, dog and may be some birds. Talk about how dangerous it would be to take a tiger to school or even try talking to him. For homework, you could ask them to list out the animals they can see around their homes or the pet animals they have at home.
Later, an outing to the zoo would be a good idea!! Then read the lesson, first from the booklet you have made, then from the textbook.
Subsequently, ask the children to read, maybe in a play form. Let the children wear the facemasks and say their dialogues.
The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.
Word Fun
Question Answers
1 day / A: Group activity: Staple together 5-6 white chart papers lengthwise (number of papers will depend on the number of children you have in your class). Let the children make a forest. Discuss with them which medium they would like to use for this activity. Let them decide. You can give them the options of crayons, paints, paper or leaf collage. A town could be made in the same manner. This project can be done during art class. Display this on the soft board.
B: Let the children make the word picture list on individual pieces of paper. Punch them together to make their vocabulary book. Pictures and words can be added as you go along the lessons. This can be given as homework.
C: Let the children enact the action words.
D: First orally then let them write the question answers.
Listen and Talk
Write Other Things
1 day / A: Here the children should learn to be punctual. Develop in them the habit of always being on time and the harm that being late can cause. You as their teacher must set a perfect example.
B: Use masks or clothes to depict a tiger and Anjali Aunty. This activity will develop their communication skills.
C: Let the children stand in a line. Talk about the position of the children – who is in front of child ‘A’ and who is behind child ‘A’. Singing a song would be an excellent idea. It will not only grow interest in the child but will also make him/her comprehend and remember the meaning of ‘behind’ and ‘in front of’.

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2. Main Course Book 2

Lesson 6: No, Thank You

Class II

Learning Outcome / When this lesson ends, you should have developed in the children the will to try every fruit and vegetable, irrespective of the fact that he/she has tried eating it earlier and not liked it. Our taste buds differ from time to time and from age to age. To be healthy and wise, all fruits and vegetables should be eaten. The children should understand that they must ‘try’ just everything in life, not only food. They will also enhance their manners and the use of polite words like please, thank you etc.
Extra Poems / Fruits
Mangoes, apples, grapes and pears,
Oranges, papaya and strawberry
I like their jam and their juice

They make me strong and healthy

Healthy food
Beans, carrots, raw mangoes,
Cucumber, radish, tomatoes,
Peas, onions and potatoes,
They all keep me on my toes,
When they are fresh from garden and groves.
What is illness, no one knows!
Optional
Project work /
Material Required /

Ask the children to draw/paste pictures of fruits and vegetables they like and dislike on A4 paper. This can be given as homework. Tie a string on one side of the classroom and staple all the sheets. No child’s work should be left out. They all have put in their best.
Bring some fruits or vegetables that can be eaten raw. Cut them and serve to the children to taste. You could make fruit or vegetable salad/chaat.
On a chart paper make a pictograph of the food which the children in the class enjoy eating. Put up the chart on the class flannel/soft board.
Worksheets: ‘Circle fruits’, ‘Circle vegetables’, ‘Colour the vegetables we can eat raw’, ‘Colour the fruits which are yellow in colour’, ‘Colour the vegetables that are green’, ‘Colour the leafy vegetables’

Reading
2 days / Before beginning the lesson, it is very important to break the ice or have a little discussion with the children to develop inquisitiveness and interest in them. Talk to them about their likes and dislikes specially regarding food.
Read the lesson to them, explaining what vitamins and minerals we get from the fruits and vegetables and how they help us in becoming strong and healthy. Talk of getting immunity from them – an apple a day keeps the doctor away; green leafy vegetables giving us iron, etc.
Let the children take turns to read the chapter.
The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.
Word Fun
Question Answers
1 day / A: The children can draw the food that they are writing in their notebooks. This can be given as homework.
B: Add these words and meanings to the picture vocabulary book. Draw wherever you can. This can be given as homework.
A and B: Discuss answers to all the questions and the fill in the blanks and then ask them to write.
Write Other Things
Listen and Talk
What else? / A: This exercise can be done in the book itself.
B: As the children write the colour, ask them to make a small square with the crayons. This exercise can be given as homework.
C: Complete this in the book for homework.

Let the children talk to their family and friends and make a pictograph with the list of food that they collect. This can be given as homework.

This interesting graph can be made on a chart paper and put up in class.

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3. Main Course Book 2

Lesson 9: The Colours of Rangpuri

Class II

Learning Outcome / The children should be able to comprehend the importance of colours in our lives. Without colour things would look dull and drab. Colour gives us happiness and makes life look bright and gay. To be cheerful, we should always have plenty of colours around us. Stress on unity and group work. When we work together, we can achieve just anything. The children will also know the various mediums of colours that can be used.
Extra Poems / Mixing Colours
Mix, mix and mix the colours,
Shake, shake and shake the colours,
What have we got now…,

Ah! New and different colours!!

Mix red and yellow to get orange,
Yellow and blue if you want green,
Lots of paint and lots of tricks,
So much fun you’ve never seen.
Red and green will give you brown,
But red and blue makes violet,
Pretty pink with white and red,
For gray it’s black and white!
Optional
Project work /
Material Required /

With the help of watercolours, show the children how we obtain a new and different colour. You can do some experiments as well. Take any two colours, ask the children to guess which colour they should make and then mix.
On paper, let the children depict the new colour that immerges when two colours are mixed. This activity can be conducted in pairs. Make pairs by drawing chits.
A box of 48 shades of crayons will make it easy for you to show the different shades to the children.
For homework you can give a xeroxed picture of a village and ask the children to make it colourful. Following day, discuss the difference between the xeroxed and colourful picture. Display the coloured pictures of the entire class on the soft board or the string, along with one xeroxed colourless picture.
Worksheets: Give xeroxed copies of various things/objects/fruits/vegetables etc and ask the children to colour with whichever colour they think appropriate. Hang all the pictures on a string or paste in a scrapbook.

Reading
2 days / Depicting of new colours can work as a team building activity before starting the chapter. It will develop curiosity and interest in the children.
Let one child start reading; change after each paragraph. Explain the different shades while reading, e.g. emerald is a shade of green. Show the colours from the crayon box. Talk about the mixing colours activity. Broaden this concept in the children. Also imbibe in them that certain objects have specific colours like sun is golden yellow, moon silvery white, fresh leaves are green etc. Talk about how dull, drab and colourless life would be without colours.
Question the children about mixing of colours to see if they have understood.
The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.
Let’s Talk About
Word Fun
Question Answers
1 day / Why did Rangpuri loose its colours? What would you do to bring the colour back? As there is no specific reason given in the book, so this is an open-ended question. Make it a brain storming session where the children can come up with various ideas as to what must have happened and how they can help. Encourage each child to give a different reason.
While doing this activity, along with the name of the colour, make a little circle of that particular colour. This can be given as homework.
Do them orally in class and then give as homework.
Listen and Talk
Write Other Things
What else
1 day / Let the children play this game in pairs. Add some more sentences ‘Toss the ball’, ‘dash till the gate’ etc. Then encourage the children to make their own sentences.
Give all the three exercises for homework. Discuss slogans at first in class.
Make picture collage. This can be done as a group activity.

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4. Main Course Book 2

Lesson 10: Poetry: My Park

Class II

Learning Outcome
/ This will build an ownership feeling in the children. They will learn to look after their own and other peoples belongings. The children will develop the habit of keeping the environment neat and clean.
Optional
Project work /
Material Required /

Group activity: Join 5-6 chart papers lengthwise and let the children make a park doing collage with different material like leaves, crepe paper, ice cream sticks, buttons etc.
Ask them to make a sign for their park. Encourage them to write something new and innovative.
Worksheets: ‘Draw the things you see at a park’, ‘Complete the picture’ (Give an incomplete picture of the park and let the children draw), ‘Draw the thing you like best in your park’. Xerox a picture of a dirty park. Ask the children to ‘Cross whatever is wrong in the picture’.

Reading
2 days / Take the children for a walk in the school garden. Ask them to pick up any dirt/pieces of paper/leaves etc. they see lying around.
Then the teacher can read the poem to the children with zest and expression. Explain the poem building an ownership feeling in the children. Ask the child:

Who is narrating the poem?
Is the child happy to read instructions in a park?
Does he/she know that a park should be kept neat and clean?
Does he/she litter paper/pencil shavings etc around, at home or at school?
Is spitting a neat/clean habit?

Inculcate neat clean habits in the children.
Ask the children to recite the poem with passion, gusto and liveliness. Emphasize on body language and facial expression. The learning outcome of the poetry should be clear to them.

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5. The Storyteller 2

Lesson 3: Guess What?

Class II

Learning Outcome
/ The children should know that gossiping, telling tales, adding or deleting from an incident or story is a very wrong practice. They should always say the truth, in exactly the same manner as it was told or happened. Inculcate in them the habit of honesty and the harm telling wrong tales can cause.
Optional
Project work /
Material Required /

Group activity: Divide the children into 4-5 groups. Give them cardboard, cello tape, adhesive, paper, scissors etc. Ask them to make a birdhouse. Hang them on different trees in the school compound. Keep some grains in them and look out for birds.
Go for a walk around the school compound and observe the birds you see. Discuss their colour, size, shape and the sound they make. Draw them.
Game: Play Chinese whisper with the children. Let them sit in a circle. Say a short sentence in the ear of the child on your right. Continue in this manner and let the last child say it aloud. Discuss the change or difference that has come about in the sentence.

Reading
Writing
2 days / The walk around the school will work here as a team building activity. The teacher should then read the lesson to the children and discuss/explain it. Let the children read it for homework.
The next day the children can act it out. Ask them to observe the change in the sentences regarding Ritu’s birdhouse. Let them write all the sentences to observe the change better.
The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.
Ask the children to write five reasons why they should be honest, always tell the truth and never add or delete from an incident or story.

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Lesson Plan for Patterns

1. Main Course Book 2

My Friends

They make me strong and healthy

Ah! New and different colours!!