Learning Activity Plan for PreK-Grade 2

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Cooperating Teacher

Therese Snider
April, 2016

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lesson
This lesson is:

The Three Little Pigs

Cognitive Development, Social/Emotional Development, Language Development,
Fine Motor Skills

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Ready, Set, Go Program at Rutgers Church / Broadway Ave. New York, NY

3-4 year olds
Ms. Somer
Classroom Number
202

The teacher will read the story out loud of The Three Little Pigs. The students will
help build the three houses of the pigs and then act out the story as a class.
A review of a previous
lesson/activity
By reading The Three Little Pigs out loud and then acting out the story, the
children will remember parts of the story, and pretend to be characters of the
story. They will be able to show a wide variety of emotions when they act out
each character of the story.
15-20 minutes
After reading The Three Little Pigs and then acting it out as a class, the children
will be able to recognize different parts of a story, what a character is and what
emotions a character may have in a story
Domain II Social Emotional I.3 and I.4
Domain IV Cognitive B.5 E.3 F.2
Domain V Language C.5 E.4 H.7

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Language Objectives
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needed:
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childrens learning you will
use during the activity)
Technology inclusion (if
applicable)
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step)

Through this lesson, the children will be able to use vocabulary to express
emotion.

The Three Little Pigs big book

Paper sticks, paper straw, paper bricks
Butcher paper for pigs houses
Glue

none
We will put the book of The Three Little pigs in the Mystery Story Trunk. The
kids will pull it out and we will read it together as a read aloud.
1. We will read the story aloud
2. Discuss the story, the characters of the story and the emotions of the
characters. We will also discuss the vocabulary words: sticks, straw, bricks,
sneaky, frightened
3. Read the story again.
4. We will have already cut out straw, sticks, and bricks out of paper as
well as the frame work for each pigs house which will already be hanging in
three different sections of the room.
5. The students will each get a glue stick and glue the appropriate building
material with the appropriate pigs house.
6. After the houses are built the kids will pick out which character they want
to be and we will act out the story a few times.
After we act out the story several times, we will meet on the rug to discuss the
wolf and pigs feelings as well as which house they would build if they were one of

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the pigs.
Method of assessing
childrens
understanding of
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and/or worksheets you will
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activities

Pre-assessment
Assessment of Student
Assessment of
Before reading the
Learning
Childrens Language
books, we will ask the
We will observe each child
Learning
children if they know the
in their role during the
We will observe the
story of The Three Little
acting out of the story to
childrens vocabulary
Pigs and ask what they
see if they correctly
in acting out the story
think it will be about.
express the characters
as well as which new
After we read the story
emotions. We will also ask
vocabulary words they
we will ask how they
questions of what happens are able to recall
think the characters in
next and what was this
during circle time.
the story feel and ask
house built out of during
them to retell the story.
the acting out of the story.
Supporting children
Supporting English Language Learners
with identified delays
We will use a large book of The Three Little Pigs and
or disabilities
we will point to the pictures and repeat the words
For the children with
together as a class when pointing to the pictures.
delays, we will assist
Because the story repeats itself, the kids will all be
them during the gluing
repeating together as a class and this will help the
process and acting out
ELLs with their vocabulary. This is a very visual
the story. Throughout the lesson so this will be helpful to the ELLs as well.
activities, we will hold
their hands and guide
them physically and
verbally throughout the
lesson.
1. Create a picture graph or tally chart on which house the kids would pick to
build.

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2. Draw pictures of the story.

3. Create houses out of tooth picks, marshmallows, blocks, straws etc and
share our creations in circle time with the class.
The students will have read stories before and acted them out. Even though this
is a new story to them, it will be a concept they are not new to.

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of the learning activity