This is a two-week lesson: part one is about sheep and their fleeces, and how a fleece becomes yarn. Part two will be about what we do with yarn (specifically knitting, since this librarian and her assistant love to knit!)
KINDERGARTEN LESSON PLAN Week
of December 3
SHEEP
THIS WEEK’S TEKS:
1 a, b, f, g Print
Awareness
2
b, c, e, i Rhymes &
Phonological Awareness
3
a Phonics
4
a, b Prediction &
Reading Strategies
6
a, c Story Elements,
sensory details
7 Poetry
8
a, b Retell Stories,
Story Elements
9 Author’s Purpose
10
b, c, d Predict, Evaluate
& Retell Stories
18
a Oral &
Written Conventions
19
a Generate
Questions
20
a Whole Group
Research
21
a, b Library Procedures
RC(fig19)
a,b,d,f,e Read Assorted
Literature, Generate Questions,
Whole
Group Research, Predictions/Inference,
Pair
Fiction & Non-Fiction, Retell and Summarize Stories
Reading
Comprehension
n/a Book Selection
Intent: This is a 2-week lesson.
First week focuses on sheep and fleece and how you get a fleece to
become yarn. Second week will be all
about what to do with that yarn – weaving and knitting and crochet. ‘Tis the season of cold weather, so stories
about knitting, yarn, sweaters and mittens will be most appropriate!
1. INTRODUCTION
a.
a. Welcome
Song: Welcome to the Library (To “London
Bridge is Falling Down.”)
Welcome to the library, library,
library.
Welcome to the library, please come
inside and read.
We’re glad to have you here today, here
today, here today.
We’re glad to have you here today,
today’s a special day.
b.
Finger
Play: Five Little Peas
5 little peas in a pea-pod pressed (fist)
One grew, two grew, and so did the rest (raise fingers individually)
They grew and grew and did not stop (cup hands, start expanding)
Until
one day, they all went POP! (expanding… on POP, clap hands, throw out arms)
c. Set Library Behavioral
Expectations: (reinforce / commend
examples )
ii. Graphic CHAMPS reminder (weeks 4-) https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B3dpaiUKs9aAMHVaT2otdC1Kb1U
d.
Mystery Bag: three items, a sheep
puppet, some roving, and a spindle.
e.
Word of the Week: (Forms a cornerstone of the
lesson, aids in understanding and connecting text themes)
i.
English Wool
ii.
Spanish la Lana (LAH-nah)
iii.
ASL
(American Sign Language.) Sign language is a real language where people
use their hands to communicate. Here is the sign for sheep. Hold your left arm up, and you’re your right
hand into a letter “v.” You’re your
right hand is the scissors, and the left hand is the sheep. Pretend to cut its fleece.
f.
Intent
& Agenda: Today
we’re going to learn all about sheep.
It’s almost winter now, and getting cold outside. The hair on the sheep, called its fleece or
wool, is used to make hats, mittens, sweaters and blankets. We’re going to listen to some stories and
sing songs about sheep today, then we’re going to watch a video about how a
sheep’s hairy coat, its fleece, is made into yarn! At the end of class today, I’m going to show
you how you can make yarn out of sheep’s wool with this spindle.
2. Story #1: Woolbur by Leslie Helakoski (Harper Collins, 2008) or Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn about
Wool by Terri Sloat, (Dorington Kinserly, 2001).
a.
Pre-reading: Action on the front of the book: what’s going on?
b.
READ: note rhyme and
rhythm in this picture book.
c.
Reflection: What were the steps to make sheep’s fleece into sweaters?
d.
Extension Activity: “The Lamb Went” (by Storytime Katie)
The lamb went
around the cow in the corn (trace circle in palm)
Under the
haystack (go under the hand)
Up the hill
and down the hill (go up the arm and down the arm)
Over the
fence (go above the hand)
Through the
door (slide hands and clap)
And back in
time to meet the teacher!! (trace circle in palm)
e. Jokes:
a.
Why couldn’t
the lamb play at recess? He was being
baaaa-d.
b.
Where does a
sheep go for a haircut? The baa-baa
shop.
c.
What do you
call a dancing sheep? A baa-lerina.
3. POEM: Mother Goose’s Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Baa,
baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes,
sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for
my master, one for my dame, one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
4.1 RESOURCE #2: (Reading
Rainbow, “Let’s Spin Wool”, accessed from Discovery Streaming)
a.
Pre-reading So, we just read a book about what it
takes to make a sheep’s fleece turn into wool for yarn. Let’s see that happen on video now, and check
to make sure we understand each of the steps.
- INVESTIGATE Resource
4.2 Video clip: Shaun the Sheep
“Fleeced” (Running Time 5 minutes)
Shaun
and his flock get sheared, in a comic version of what we discovered today. So sue me for having a little fun right before holiday break!
5. ACTIVITY
a.
Spindle and loom
demonstrations:
Fortunately, I have a drop spindle and a
loom! Students will see how the drop
spindle works in a demonstration, then get to use the loom with their choice of
yarn to create a class project. “Drop
Spindle Demonstration” gets you plenty of hits on YouTube: here’s one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjoFt4-02A4. If you don’t have a loom of your own (mine is
a 12x18 Harris Loom I found at thrift store years ago) you can make one: making
your own spindle with a CD and a little metal hook is another project you could
try.
6. Check out books
7. Conclusion
a. Circle:
i. review intent: sheep give us
wool, which we can make into all sorts of things.
ii. word of week in English,
Spanish, and ASL.
iii. closing song
(Open shut them open shut them raise your hands up high.
Open, shut them, open shut them wave and say good bye.)
b.
Pet the Puppet (The lamb!)
c.
Line Up By… Every week, we line up according to different criteria, makes
kids pay attention, work on grouping, differentiating among options. (People
wearing sweaters! Then people wearing
scarves or other knitted/woolen items!)
d.
High Five the Word of the Week FLEECE
Additional
Resources:
·
Shaun the Sheep “Fleeced” (Season 1)
·
Shaun the Sheep “We Wish Ewe A Merry Christmas”
(Season 3)
· Woolbur by Leslie Helakoski
Counting Ovejas by Sarah Weeks
·
Hide and Sheep by Andrea Beatty
·
Charlie Needs a Cloak Tomie de Paola (book or video
on Discovery Streaming)
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