Title: Circle Time

Date: Daily

Time: 15mins

Background Information:
9 students 4 girls/5 boys, 8 physical disabilities, all developmental disabilities
Curriculum Expectations:
- Each student have their own IEP goals
- Common goals: use switch to provide greeting, provide a yes response, making choices
between two, provide eye contact with interacting, responding to name, tolerating full
support, fine motor skills as independently as possible, use step by step switch
Materials:
- Knee patch + glove
Promethean board + flipchart
- Props _ concrete objects for thematic song
Mirror
- Step by step switch
Large Canada flag, 9 small flags
- iPad with prologuo2go
Large Dice
- Accessible wind chimes and concert circle
Mental Set:
1. Use concrete circle, give to children who are blind to touch and hold, tell them its circle
time
2. Each child takes turns to pull string to ring wind chimes

Grouping:
Whole group with
assistance from adults
Assessment:
Diagnostic
Observation
Anecdotal notes
Interview
Inventories/surveys
Test/quiz
Questionnaires
KWL

Lesson:
Attendance
1. Choose a helper to help at the promethean board
2. Call out each students name, and put them in the right box on the board. Students use
mirror to look at reflection and give response when name is called.
Greetings
3. Say Good moring/afternoon to each student. They will use switch or iPad to respond.
4. Eleni shares about her evening using her switch.
5. Sing hello song. Choose 1 student to help roll the big dice.
Calendar and counting
6. Look at calendar for date. Ask 1 student to choose from concrete object. Tap on knees or
clap hands to count the days.
7. Ask What are we going to be doing today?. Each student takes turns to press 3 step
switch.
Anthem
8. Each student holds their own flag and teacher holds big flag to sing anthem
Theme Song
9. Students make choice between 2 objects to sing theme song (Old MacDonald)

Formative
Observation
Anecdotal notes
Work samples
Test/quiz
Checklist
Conference
Peer-assessment
Self-assessment

Summative
Portfolios
Unit test
Self-assessment
Peer-assessment
Final reflection
Speeches
Projects
Presentations
Reports,
oral/written

End
-

End circle saying Circle time is finished. Present

students with object of next activity.

Collaborative/social skill

Assessment:
- Communication matrix
- Brigance
Observations + anecdotal notes
Mult. Intelligences:

Purpose

Participating fully

Listening attentively

Linguistic

Mental Set

Expressing appreciation

Reflecting on experience

Logical/Mathematical

Sharing Purpose/Objectives

Valuing diversity

Thinking constructively

Spatial

Input

Making responsible decisions

Resolving conflict

Musical

Modeling

Solving problems creatively

Working on tasks together

Bodily/Kinesthetic

Check for Understanding

Assessing improvement

Celebrating achievement

Interpersonal

Guided Practice

Intrapersonal

Independent Practice

Naturalistic

Closure

Modifications:
Increase time, space, amount

Peer tutor/Partner

Decrease

Use manipulatives

Change

Include visuals

Scribe

Extend

Oral explanation

Provide instruction throughout

Other:

Personal Notes/Reminders/Homework/Other Considerations:

Face to face interactions

Augmented communication devices
Close proximity to teacher
Clear concise language
Comfortable seating options
Provide extra time to process
Concrete objects +photos