The Fourth Lesson Plan Template, Animals Mothers and Babies

Name: Nour Obaid The lesson theme: Farm Animals Date: October 15, 2017

Professional Development Plan

(What do YOU need to work on in order to grow professionally?)

Achieve classroom management

Use effective and useful teaching strategies.
Establish an appropriate routine for the preschoolers through my teaching sessions.
Create effective teaching lessons in short time that interest the preschoolers.

1. Choose and describe an aspect from a teaching competency that you need to work on (Goal):
To create transitions among the lesson parts.
To organize and make good flow for the lesson.
To achieve management by managing and using effective classroom strategies.

2. Describe what you will do to help achieve your goal (Strategies Used):
Create interesting transitions for children to keep the lesson in the flow.
Using appropriate classroom strategies to achieve management.

3. Describe how you can tell if youre achieving your goal (Evidence):
Using attractive management strategies to reinforce the positive behavior.

Grade Level: Subject: Learning Outcome (EYFS code and words):

Prekindergarten Science and

The EYFS Learning Outcomes:
English
Communication and language development:
(learning new ELG 01 Listening and attention:
Age: vocabulary, Preschoolers will listen to the short story,
which are Respond to what they hear with relevant comments,
Beginning of 3 and 4 years names of the questions or actions.
old. babies
animals). ELG 03 Speaking: preschoolers express their thoughts,
feelings in the circle time, doing the activities addition,
showing their work to the teacher and assistants.
Physical development:
ELG 04 Moving and handling: children will show good
control and co-ordination in the fine motor skill in all the
activities through painting by their hands and fingers,
matching, gluing also solving the puzzle.
Children will also use the gross motor skills in the role play
activity.
ELG 06 Self-confidence and self-awareness:
Children will feel confident speaking in a familiar group,
will talk about the animals they made in the art activity, the

Resources (what materials/equipment will Preparation (what do you need to make or check before
you and the students use? Be specific) class?)
Short story about the farm animals
and their babies (based on scenario
and idea of the Are You My Mother
story by P.D. Eastman).
Puppets for the short story, which
are:
o The farmer.
o The lost baby animals.
o The barn and the farm
animals (the mothers).
The six activities:
Important note: the preschoolers do not
ready yet for the differentiation activities
due they just started the last month, they
animals masks and their experiences in the various
activities. Also, they will say when they do or dont need
help or want to show their achievements.
The Lesson Outcomes:
Recognize the animals babies.
Attempt to name the animals babies.
Match animals mothers with their babies.
Doing the lesson activities.
Note: the learning outcomes may not be achieved from the first
lesson. It may need other lessons related to the same topic so, the
children can recognize the concept and especially the names of the
babies animals.
Designing the lessons activities.
Prepare the lesson and the materials.
Create also prepare the reward system.
Provide extra activities for the backup.
Key vocabulary:
Cow/ horse/ Duck/ sheep/ hen.
Calf/ foal/ duckling/ lamb/ chick
Farmer
Barn
Note: recognizing and naming the animals and the babies animals will
take several repetitions and other lessons to help children name and
differentiate between them.
 are very young, and they did learn only
limited concepts. Due to that there will
be three activities with the same level,
but with some differences in the forms
and levels if possible.

First, the whole class activities. These

activities will be implemented at the
activities period, then the other activities will
be implemented during playing in the areas
due to the short time and it is considered
before the lunch meal time.

Note: you can see the other activities used by

the children if they finished the two primary
activities. It may dived the children into
other groups to due the other activities.

The circle time activity:

Asking some children to participate
to put and match babies animals with
mothers in the barn.

The whole class activities:

Where is my baby gluing activity.

Mother and baby animal hand

print art activity.

The small groups activities:

These activities will be implemented for
the preschoolers who finished the first
main activities, and to check their
understanding the lesson concept, and
mental abilities with including fun
element.

Where is my mother activity (the

same idea of the first activity, but
with different way).

Animals puzzle to challenge

clever children (puzzle suit their
age and their cognitive level).
 The animals mothers and babies
masks for role play area.

The reward system, and stars

stickers.

Classroom rules.

Introduction (warmer activity + teacher active engagement)

Before start the lesson, I will do the daily routine with the children through listening to the Quran,
singing the national anthem, welcoming the children, singing few songs related to the theme, and
playing for one minute.

Then, we will start the circle time. the children will bring their chairs to set. In the last Wednesday I
tried to set in the floor and make a circle with them, but they could not understand and it was difficult
to organize them and keep them in their place.

I will try to keep the lesson short and attractive for them. First, I will introduce my self to them.
second, I will illustrate some basic classroom rules for the children to help reinforce the good
behavior in the class by showing the reward system. Then, I will engage the children through another
story, but with different concept.

Note: I use stories and puppets because my class seem to react positively with them.

The story will follow the scenario of Are You My Mother story? story. The story is about a farmer
who found lost baby animals and help them back to their mothers in the barn.

Before introducing and narrating the story, I will ask the children a question: Do animals have babies?
Then I will start the story.

The story is:

One day, there was a boy farmer who went back to his farm. On his way to the farm he heard a little,
light sound, sad voice. It was saying: Quack, Quack, Quack with sad tune. Who is this animal? Do
you know it children? It is a small duck! The boy farmer said: who are you? The duckling said: I am
a baby duck. The baby duck called a duckling. I am lost, I do not know where is my mother? The
little farmer decided to help the duckling to find its mother. Both of them went to the farm to search
for the mother. The little duckling open the first door and found a Cow! Is the cow the mother
of the duckling? No the duckling opened the other doors. It did not found his mother and said: the
Time: 15 min

cow is not my mother, the sheep is not my mother, the hen is not my mother, and the horse is not my
mother, who is my mother? In this point, I will close and cover all the animals who are not the mother
and leave the duck only open to let the children notice, think also try to answer the question. The
Whole

other baby animals will have the same script as the duckling.
Note: during the story, there will be some questions used to engaged the children during the lesson.

The children will participate in the story through answering, questioning or commenting. the circle
time activity will be choosing a baby animal without knowing who is it and match it with its mother.
In case the lesson take more time, we will implement the same learning outcome with different
activities in the activities period.

Independent Experience (small group activity 1):

The first activity will be the whole class activity. In this activity, I will assess the children
understanding to the lesson through the ability to match baby animals with their mothers. Children
will match and glue the baby farm animals with their mothers in the paper.

The activity picture:

Independent Experience (small group activity 2):

The second activity will be also a whole class activity. It will be an art activity. The children will use
their hands print to make mother and baby animal. The children will have the free choice to the
colors, animal, their designs to complete this activity. As a teacher I will provide five examples for
this activity for the five animals in the lesson. Children may have more animals to create with other
colors.
 The second activity picture:

Independent Experience (small group activity 3):

The third activity will be considered as the small groups activity because in this time children are
used to go to play in the corners and after a short of time start eating. In this activity, I will observe
childrens ability to solve the puzzles. The puzzles are simple, suit their intellectual abilities in
addition, it is about the animals. These puzzles are made from 3 to 4 or 5 big pieces so children will
not have impossible task to achieve. In this activity, each child will have an animal puzzle to solve
and during that I will see if the children can do it or not.

The third activity picture:

Independent Experience (small group activity 4):

The fourth activity will be considered as another small groups activity. This activity will have the
same idea of the first whole activity but with different form. In this activity, children will have two
put the mother and the baby in the barn by using big animals cards. This activity can be done on the
tables or in the science area. Better to teach children about then put it in the science area.

The fourth activity picture, the idea of it:

Independent Experience (small group activity 5):

The fifth activity is another groups activity. This activity will be used in the role play area. This
activity will carry the idea of the lesson. Children will identify the mother and the baby animals and
being asked about the lesson during this activity. To include some fun and suit Mohmmads active
spirit, I will ask children to wear the masks and sing the Old Macdonald Had a Farm song. In this
song when I say: Old Macdonald Had a cow, the child who wear the cow mask will say: Moo.
In addition, I will include the baby animals names to find and assess the children if they able to
distinguish or identify them. In case they could not, for instance, I will say: duckling, the baby duck.

The fifth activity picture, babies and mother animals masks:

 15 min If the children finish the activities early, they can go to play. Then, the go to eat the lunch meal, but
before that we will start cleaning and singing clean up.
Closing

Time:

Assessment:

I am going to assessment them through the activities, through observing them, and through the circle time
activity, which all of them represent the formative assessment form.

Lesson Plan Reflection

My Teaching Childrens Learning (use

assessments of LO)
What Went Well? In this lesson, the
The lesson, preschooler achieved
preschoolers were almost the learning
engaged through the outcomes and the
circle time lesson and main purpose of the
seemed to answer and lesson.
understand the topic
very well. Only a
small point to
highlight, the
preschoolers had a
difficulty to identify
the chick and mixed it
with the duckling as I
though previously.
Understanding the
lesson and identify
and match the baby
animals with their
mothers.
Doing the activities
and especially
enjoying putting the
animals masks also,
solving the puzzles.
EBI Even Better If Planning for
organizing and
dividing the activities
in the learners to
avoid the chois and
losing the control or
being lost.
Put the activities in
the tables and arrange
them.
Moving the children
between the activities
so they have an equal
chance to try all
activities.
Give equal chance for
doing the circle time
activity because they
are young,
Using assessment
chick list to assess and
focus on childrens
understanding more.
Next Steps
(Identify which lesson this will
be seen in) Arrange the activities.
Let the whole class
participate and try all
activities.
Using assessment
form to assess
childrens
understanding.