Professional Practice 2

Lesson Plan What can we see in the day time?

Learning Development Area: Year level: Kindy
Communicating
Active learning Learning Area:
Wellbeing Literacy and Numeracy
Connectedness
Identity Implementation Date:
Context for learning: Monday 6th November
Routines & transitions and
Real-life engagements Tuesday 7th November
Play
Duration:
Whole class 10 minutes
Activity 10 minutes

Does this build on prior experiences?

Students have real life experiences with the daytime
Relates to the space theme and the weather theme that will be introduced this week in the
classroom

Interests of the children?

Students will be familiar and eager to share their ideas about the day time
Students would find the YouTube song fun and enjoyable
Students will enjoy the hands on activity of making a poster

WA Kindergarten Curriculum:
Connecting and Contributing
Work with others to develop skills for communication and inquiry about themselves and
their world
o Develop inquiry and communications skills
Show respect for the environment
o Explore natural and constructed environments
Learning and Thinking
Develop a range of skills and processes for learning and thinking
o Develop problem solving, investigation and inquiry strategies
Engage in and extend numeracy in personally meaningful ways
o Develop knowledge of measurement and geometry
o Develop knowledge of statistics and probability
Communicating -
Interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
o Build aural and oral language
o Convey and construct messages for a range of purposes in a variety of contexts
Express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
o View and create with media

EYLF:
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
Outcome 5:Children are effective communicators
Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
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NQS:
1 Educational program and practice
3 Physical environment
5 Relationships with children

What is the focus?

Communication interaction to convey messages and make meaning
Connecting inquiry about their world and transferring knowledge
Learning area - Literacy and numeracy - Learning and discussing what can be seen and done
in the day time

About what am I being intentional?

Introducing the topic of day and night but breaking it up and teaching about one concept at a
time
Creating a poster to consolidate learning and make meaning through a range of media
Creating a poster of the day time will be used to compare to when we do the night time
lesson

Will I observe/record information?

Students will create a poster of what they can see in the day after the whole class lesson
Checklist will be used to record language used by students while making poster

Guiding Behaviour:
Class discussion will allow for ideas to be shared with peer support
Follow behaviour plan for specific students as required (timer and cards for R)
Modelling and showing example to the students for them to see what they are expected to do
Cuing with parallel acknowledgement
Wait and pause for responses and desired behaviour remind if needed
Remind class to make good choices on the mat so that they can hear and see what is going
on
Remind about whole body listening legs crossed, hands in lap, ears turned on and eyes
looking

Resources:
Lesson: Activity:
YouTube clip Whats in the Sky? retrieved Assessment checklist
from: Blue paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNsXGB Cut outs of the sun, clouds and raindrops
3Sp94 Strips of coloured paper
Whiteboard, different coloured markers Yellow crepe paper squares
Laminated pictures, magnets Cotton balls
Glue
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Differentiation strategies:
Introduction of lesson with YouTube clip used to engage and introduce the topic that is
visually appealing and enjoyable for all students
Different text types will be used to cater to the various learning styles of the students
Scaffolding of lesson to introduce concept and showing different examples relating to the
real world and what we can see
Modelling how to make the day time poster
Assisting the students when making the poster as needed. Ensure they have input into how
they would like to make their creation.

Introduction: Whole class -

(5 minutes) Transition to mat everybody stand up - breathing in/out
x 2 everyone needs to sit down using whole body
listening as I am about to show you a video clip.

Show YouTube clip

Body: Class discussion

Can you tell me some objects that we can see in the day
(10 minutes) time?
Remind students to put hand up
Pick students who put their hand up
Write on the whiteboard draw pictures and use
laminated pictures (sun, sky, rainbow, cloud, rain drops)
What types of things can we do in the day time?
Prompt and encourage different students to answer
At the end of the mat session inform students that they
will be making a poster to show what they can see in the
day

Conclusion: Activity 2/3 students at a time

(10 minutes) Create a daytime poster displaying what we can see in the
day
Students will glue cut-outs (sun, clouds and raindrops)
and strips of paper onto blue card
They will glue cotton balls onto clouds and scrunched up
paper onto sun
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Evaluation:
The lesson went really well the students loved the YouTube song and asked for me to play it
again. The song also related well to what I was trying to focus on teaching and peaked the
students interest.
Most of the students enjoyed the activity and there was opportunities to make the posters
unique as the students chose how they wanted it to look.

As there was only a few students at a time completing the poster there was ample time to
record the language used and answers given from question asked into the assessment
checklist

Reflection:
Next time I would be more selective of which students to pick at the same time. Some
students needed minimal help while others had to be guided, refocused and prompted at
each stage. I could either have 2 higher ability at the same time, 1 lower ability at a time or 1
higher/lower ability at a time.

Notes:
Follow up lesson at the end of the day show poster and get students to answer questions
and discuss what they have learnt

Poster will be kept to compare what we can see in the day and night time also will be
glued into students scrapbook portfolio
Resources

Youtube clip Whats in the sky?

What can you see in the day laminated pictures

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Example of poster the students will be creating about the day time
Assessment checklist

Writing name and drawing yourself Assessment

Group: Date:
Writing Drawing Assisted

Students name Yes No Yes No