RU Teacher Education Lesson Plan Format

Candidate Name: Krista Cowan Date: January 29, 2017 Grade

Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Title/Topic: Morning Meeting

Standards: English K.1) The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral
language b) Participate in a variety of oral language activities including choral and
echo speaking and recitation of short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with
repeated word order patterns.

Science K.7) The student will recognize a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and will
determine the value of a collection of pennies and/or nickels whose total value is 10
cents or less.

Science K.9) The student will investigate and understand that there are simple
repeating patterns in his/her daily life. Key concepts include: a) weather
observations.

Specific Observable Objective(s): I can tell what the date will be tomorrow.
I can tell how much quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies are worth.
I can tell what the weather is like today.

Essential Vocabulary: Calendar a tool to measure days, weeks, and months

Weather sunny, cloudy, hot, cold, etc.

Assessment: I will assess the students using formative assessments by asking

questions and listening for correct answers. I will also keep note of students who
need more instruction in certain aspects of the morning meeting.

Student Considerations: For a student who has trouble paying attention, I will
make sure he/she sits near the front so that I can keep him/her on task.

Instructional Resources, Materials, and Technology:

Calendar with date cards
Weather wheel
Coins
Coin song poster
Day of the week cards
Attendance card with sticky notes
Dry erase board with marker

PROCEDURES:

The Beginning (a.k.a. Anticipatory Set): (2 minutes)

 To begin my morning meeting, I will call the students over to the carpet and
have them sit so that everyone can see me. I will then tell the students that
we are going to start the morning meeting.

The Middle: (10 minutes)

I will start off the morning meeting with calendar time. I will choose one
student to come up and stand in front of the calendar. Then, I will say to the
students, Yesterday was January 29th, so today is January The students will
say 30th, and the student helper will place the 30 card on the calendar. Next,
I will ask the students, If yesterday was Sunday, what is today? When the
students say, Monday, I will ask, What is tomorrow? The students will then
answer, Tuesday. After calendar time, I will ask the student helper to check
the weather and then I will turn the arrows on the weather wheel to the
correct places. Next, I will sing the counting coins song with the students and
ask the students questions like, Five pennies equals one what? and, How
many quarters does it take to make a dollar? After that, I will tell the students
that we have 20 students in class and zero are absent, so we have 20
students present. Lastly, I will write the sentence for the day on the dry erase
board and ask the students which punctuation (period or exclamation point) to
use at the end of my sentence.

The End (a.k.a. Closing): (5 minutes)

To conclude the morning meeting, I will have one student do his/her show and
tell. After show and tell, I will tell the students which classrooms to go to for
centers.

Teacher Reflection on Practice (following the lesson):

1. What evidence did you collect to show your students attained todays
objective(s)? Please explain how you know which students did and did not
master your objectives. Use formative assessment data to support your claims
regarding the portion of students who did and did not master the learning
objective(s).
The students mastered all three objectives listed. They could tell what the
next day would be, tell how much each coin was worth, and tell what the
weather was like.

2. Based on the result of your assessment, what will you do tomorrow? Can you
go ahead as planned or will you need to reteach concepts from todays
lesson? (Explain how you will reteach and/or connect and feed forward.)
I will continue to do morning meeting in the same way.

3. If you have to teach this lesson again, what might you do the same and what
might you do differently?
I lead morning meeting every day. The students are now writing the sentence
of the day instead of me, but they seem to have forgotten how much each
coin is worth.