Lesson Seed

Unit Title:Coming Full Circle with Cycles
Grade Level:K
Lesson Seed:Week 1- Day 1
Essential Question:What is a cycle?
Focus Question:How do we see and experience cycles in our everyday lives?
Text/Resources
  • The House in the Night By Susan Marie Swanson
  • Song: Hush Little Baby
  • Interactive Read Aloud- What is a Cycle? By Lisa Trumbauer
  • Technology Connection: You-Tube Circle Game by Joni Mitchell –
OR
  • Lyrics for Circle Game Song-
  • Class Concept Web

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.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Reading Foundational Skills
RFK.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
  1. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
  2. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
  3. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
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.
  1. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions.
  2. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
Language
LK.1 Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.
  1. Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
INTERACTIVE READ-ALOUD STANDARDS
Reading – Information
RIK.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RIK.10 Actively engage in group reading activities 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.
SHARED WRITING STANDARDS
Writing
WK.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects
WK.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
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.
Student Outcomes
  • Students will be able to recognize different types of texts, distinguishing songs, poems, and stories. (RLK.5)
  • Students will be able to follow words from left to right, top to bottom. (RFK.1.a)
  • Students will be able to recognize that spoken words can be represented in written language. (RFK.1.b)
  • Students will be able to understand that words are separated by spaces in print. (RFK.1.c)
  • 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 toproduce and expand sentences in shared language activities. (LK.1.f)
  • Students will be able to answer key details about a text. (RIK.1)
  • Students will be able to actively engage in group reading experiences with purpose and understanding. (RIK.10)
  • Students will be able to participate in shared writing. (WK.7)

Sample Activities: Week 1, Day 1 – Lesson Seed
Shared Reading
Introduce song Hush Little Baby. Introduce and read The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson. (Revisit text to sequentially identify what the girl experiences in the night (beginning with Sun in Moon) in order to create an interactive chart for shared reading.
Interactive Read-Aloud:
What Is a Cycle? by Lisa Trumbauer
Conduct a discussion by recalling examples of cycles from the text.
Shared Writing
Formative assessment:
As a class, create a concept web about cycles, using picture-word cards.
Technology Connection:
Lyrics Passed out to Students or Displayed
You-Tube: Circle Game by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell
The Circle Game
Hits (1996)
Yesterday, a child came out to wander
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful, when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
And the season's they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the circle game
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like "when you're older" must appease him
And promises of "someday" make up his dreams
And the season's they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the circle game
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town
And they tell him, "take your time, it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circle's down
And the season's they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the circle game
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
They'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams, and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the season's they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the circle game
**Prepare for small group/guided reading instruction by selecting appropriate text and materials. Make connections to the concept of Cycle wherever possible.

R/ELA.MSDE 8/5/2012