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Teacher: Brown Date: 2/6/17

School: Sanborn Grade Level:

K

Title: Community Helpers: Firefighters

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards

directly from the standard) Standard 1.2.e: Oral Expression and
Listening: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and
being read to, and responding to texts.

Standard 3.2.b: Writing: Demonstrate command of the conventions of

Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

Standard 4.2.b: Civics: Give examples of qualities of a good citizen

Understandings: (Big Ideas)

Being a helper in the community is important

Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of

instruction, select applicable questions from standard)

What does it mean to be a good listener?

Why is it important to help our community?

What qualities make people good citizens?

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)

Every student will be able to: (Create your own lesson objectives from the
standard, follow the ABCD format, using student voice)

1) I can: listen to the book and think of a fact that I learned about firefighters
that makes them unique, this means I am able to use my listening skills to
learn and remember something I heard from the book.

2) I can: express my ideas about what I learned about firefighters and write it in
sentence form on my paper, this means I am able to clearly state my ideas.

3) I can: explain why firefighters are important and helpful to our community,
this means I am able to see how individuals have unique talents and good
qualities to help them work with others in the community

List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with
each assessment)

Learning target #1: Using the can, are have chart I will be able to see that
students are able to express the ideas that they heard in the book that was read to

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them. This is important because students need to work on their skills of listening,
remembering what they heard, and turning it into a sentence.

Learning target #2: Writing checklist:

I wrote my name and printed letters

I used a resource

I stretched out words

I used finger spaces

I began my sentences with a capital letter

I used punctuations

Learning target #3: By creating a thank you letter students will note how
firefighters are important and helpful within the community. Students will tell me
what they would like to write. I will check for students understanding of how they
are helpful and important by observing their answers.

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Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and the Community Helpers: Firefighters
students to associate with the activity.
Think of the purpose as the mini-rationale
for what you are trying to accomplish
through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to 40 minutes
last and what materials will you need? Materials:
-2 pieces of chart paper
-The book Firefighters by Amanda Askew and Andrew Crowson
-Marker
-Writing paper with lines (one per student)

Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention.
These are actions and statements by the
teacher to relate the experiences of the
students to the objectives of the lesson,
To put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
We had firefighters visit us a few months ago which was a pretty
amazing experience, now we are going to think back to what we
learned when they were here. Can anyone tell me what he or she
remembers from when they were here?
I am going to begin with a book and maybe we will be able to learn
something new. While I am reading please make sure to use your best
listening ears and listen for any new information you might not know. If
you hear something put your thumb on your chest so you will be able to
remember it and tell me after.

Procedures Teacher Actions Student Actions

(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the
minute they arrive to the minute they
leave your classroom. Indicate the length
of each segment of the lesson. List actual
minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
Have students sit quietly with
controlled bodies.
Begin reading the book
Firefighters. If students raise
there hands while reading remind
them to keep their thumb on their
chest so they can remember what
they heard.
Students will control their bodies
and sit quietly on their rug spots.
Students will listen quietly to the
book and put their thumb on their
chest if they hear new information.
Students will go back to their seats
to write a fact they learned about
firefighters.

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-modeling If students need reminding to When students are done writing

-questioning strategies control their bodies while reading they will turn their work into the
-guided/unguided: remind them to do so. finished basket.
-whole-class practice After reading the book ask Students will go back to their rug
-group practice students for new information they spots with a controlled body.
-individual practice heard. Students will give information
-check for understanding Ask students to go to their seats to about what firefighters can, have,
-other write a fact they learned about and are to fill in the chart.
firefighters. Students will come up with ideas
When students are done writing on what to write on the thank you
have them turn their work in to the letter to the Longmont firefighters.
finished basket come back to their Once the letter is done students
rug spots. will get their jackets on and be
On chart paper create a can, are, ready for recess.
and have chart.
Have students tell you information
that firefighters can do.
Write each answer underneath
that column in the chart.
If students forget you can go back
to the book to re-read any
information that is important.
Get out a new piece of chart paper
and on the first line write Dear
Longmont Firefighters.
Explain to students that we are
writing a thank you letter to the
Longmont Firefighters to thank
them for helping our community.
Ask students for ideas on what to
write on the letter.
Once the letter is finish, have
students get their jackets on and
line up for recess.
Closure Now that we have written a thank you letter to the Longmont
Firefighters I will be sending it to them. Do you think they will be excited

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Differentiation
To modify: If the activity is too advanced
for a child, how will you modify it so that
they can be successful?
To extend: If the activity is too easy for a
child, how will you extend it to develop
their emerging skills?
Assessment
How will you know if students met the
learning targets? Write a description of
what you were looking for in each
assessment.
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to receive this letter? Do you think this letter will help them realize that
they are important and helpful to our community?
Modify: For E I will make sure there is a teacher working with him at his
desk when he is writing the fact about firefighters. For Je I will make
sure there is a teacher working with him at his desk when he is writing
the fact about firefighters.
Extend: For Na and Ma I will have them write me two sentences about
what they have learned about firefighters.
1) By using this chart I will be looking for students that are able to
remember what they heard and make sure they are able put that fact
under either the can, are, or have category. While picking which
category their information will go under I will also be able to ask the
student is this makes a firefighter a quality community helper.
2) I am looking for students to create a sentence that has an uppercase
letter at the beginning, a picture that matches the sentence, neat
handwriting, and words that make sense.
3) By creating a thank you letter students will note how firefighters are
important and helpful within the community. Students will tell me what
they would like to write. I will check for students understanding of how
they are helpful and important by observing their answers. I will be
checking to make sure that students know what makes a good citizen
and community helper.
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Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize

assessment data to justify your level of achievement)

Lesson objective #1 was achieved. By looking at the chart and

listening to students Ideas I was able to see that students understood what
makes a firefighter a community helper. A few students came up with ideas
that they were lifesavers and that they helped them feel safe. I think that
this showed that students felt as though firefighters have good qualities that
show they are a good citizen in our community.

Lesson objective #2 was achieved. After assessing the students

facts about firefighters I was able to see that students had good thoughtful
sentences. The sentences started with an uppercase letter and ended with a
period. If students did not have either of those I sent them back to their
tables so that they could fix it and try again.

Lesson objective #3 was achieved. Students were able to show

me that they could create ideas to write to the firefighters to thank them for
the work they do in our community. Even though this part of the lesson was
harder for some of the students I could tell that is really pushed their
thinking and they had good ideas on how firefighters show respect and good
citizenship to our community.

2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would

you make if you were to teach again?

If I were to teach this lesson again I would make sure to scaffold

better when writing the letter with my students. When students had a harder
time thinking of an idea of what to write I would go back to the book that we
read and re-read some parts to help them think of more ideas. I would also
show them an example letter so that they could see the format of how we
were going to write the letter.

3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice,

reteach content, etc.)

My next lesson is with our guest speaker. Since students know

how to write a thank you letter now we will have them write one each
guest speaker that we have come talk to our class. I hope that after
our next guest speaker students will be able to create their own thank
you letter to give to the next guest speaker. I will also ask students to

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think about how each guest speaker shows how they are a good citizen
within our community.

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