Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN Subject: English

Trainee: Fatima Topic or Theme: Weather and climate

Mohammed Hassan

Class: KG2 Date & Duration: 4\3\2019 – 44 min

Trainee Personal Goals

I am working on:

1- I want to ask more open-ended questions in my lessons

2- I want to be more strong and confident to manage student’s behaviour in the classroom
by using different strategies
3- I want to improve my planning for differentiated activities,

Lesson Focus

Understand the concept of weather

Lesson Outcomes

Students will be able to:

- Identify kinds of weather (snowy, rainy, cloudy, sunny, windy)

Links to Prior Learning

Ask them about the weather and day, because always in the morning circle the teacher ask them about
the weather and day

21st Century Skills

critical thinking

social skills

creativity

Key vocabulary

Sunny, snowy, cloudy, rainy, windy

Possible problems for learners Solutions to possible problems

Identify all the kinds of weather Involve different types of activities

Resources/equipment needed

Flashcards (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, foggy ,windy)

- Weather Report story

- Winter tree on blue paper (6 students)
- Cupcake paper cut into 2 pieces
- Paint (blue and white)
- Ear cleaner
- Cotton balls
- Glue
- Sun cut out
- Weather
- weather board game
- sorting activity (different pictures that represent the different kind of weathers, worksheet
include table of the 5 types of weather) laminated

TASKS/ACTIVITIES
Resources
Introduction
& Time
Story , Students will: Teacher will:
flashcards
Take the class outside to observe the
Follow the teacher outside weather. Ask them what they see? How
do they feel? Hot, cold? And finally ask
15 min Participate with the teacher them what the weather is today?
Observe the weather
Take the students back to the classroom
and discus words to describe it, make a
note of weather words on the
whiteboard or use flashcards

Before reading the story, she will ask the

children some questions about the story
cover:

- What do you see on the cover?

 - What do you think the story will be
about?
Actively respond with the teacher
While reading the story, the teacher will
skim through the book looking at the
photographs and decide what kind of
weather is pictured in each one.

Point out to each weather words such as

sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy, windy, and
foggy.

While reading the story or after reading the

story the teacher while have a discussion
with the students about
- What kinds of clothes are
appropriate for different kinds of
weather?
- Ask children what they like to do in
different weather?
- Ask students if they can find the
same weather they saw outside this
morning?
- Choose their favourite kind of
weather? why
- What happens in each weather?
Etc.

Resources
Main activities
& Time
happy and sad Students will: Teacher will:
earth sorting - Follow the teacher
activity instructions - Play with the students Simple
- Throw the dice board game for revising weather
worksheet \
- Name the type of weather vocabulary. Students name the
pictures about
that they land on, and go up type of weather that they land
reducing and the rainbows and down the on, and go up the rainbows and
wasting lightning bolts. down the lightning bolts.
- Answer the teacher - She will ask some questions
questions about the weather etc.
10 min

- Display the weather poster, ask

- Students will match the the students to match the symbol
symbol to the weather type to the weather type
Differentiation activities (low) – 15 min

Teacher will:

Explain the activities before they go into groups and show them an example of the activity.

Guide them in the groups and help them if they need.

Students will:

(Snowy tree activity) – students will use the ear cleaner and white paint to paint some snowy
“leaves” all over the tree.

(Rainy sky activity) students will glue the cupcake paper on the paper as the umbrella and will
draw the umbrella stick using colours, then they will use the ear cleaner, blue paint to draw the
rain.

(Cloudy sky activity) students will glue the cotton balls on a blue paper and then add the sun.

Differentiation activities ( High )

Students will sort the clothes and other objects that represents the weather to the weather type

For example they will match the sunglass to the sunny weather

Resources
& Time Plenary/Conclusion

5 min Students will Teacher will

- Answer the teacher questions - Ask students what they learned

- Display their work and talk today?
about it - Invite students to display their
work to the class

Homework -

Assessment Asking questions

Strategies: - What are the different types of weather?
- What do we wear in the sunny, rainy, snowy weather?
- Ask children what they like to do in different weather?
-
high level critical thinking questions
- Why we don’t have snow In UAE?
☐ Observation ☐ Student self- ☐ Oral questioning ☐ Peer assessment
assessment

☐ Quiz ☐ Student presentation ☐ Written work and ☐ Verbal feedback

feedback

Reflection: