FE3 Learning Plans
Lesson 1: Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
In this lesson, the students will be learning about the important theme of self-love through the picture book, Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho. Throughout the semester, the students have been doing reading response writing in their copybooks. This lesson is intended to build on their reading responses and explore the theme of self-love. This lesson helps students recognize the main message of books.
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By the end of the lesson, both grade 3 and 4 students will have successfully written a reading response on a worksheet answering the question “What do you love most about yourself?”. Using only the story and the class discussions to answer the question.
Lesson 2: Descriptive Writing
At the end of their story writing project, the students will be creating their own narrative story. In this lesson, the students will be learning about the importance of descriptive writing and how it contributes to the overall story by making it more interesting. This is building on their knowledge of the six story elements (character, setting, problem/solution, plot, theme, genre) and applying this writing technique while creating their rough draft later on. This will be useful when they are writing their rough draft of their own stories. They will use their knowledge of describing throughout the writing process in order to make their stories interesting and unique.
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By the end of the lesson, both grade 3 and 4 students will have successfully completed the descriptive writing worksheet describing in detail how to draw a snowman in 8-10 steps. They will use the interactive class demonstration, activity, and presentation to complete the worksheet.
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Lesson 3: Setting
At the end of their story writing project, the students will be creating their own narrative story. In this lesson, the students will be learning about the importance of setting and how it contributes to the overall story. This is building on their knowledge of character/characterization from last class. This will be useful when they are brainstorming ideas for their own stories. They will use their knowledge about setting and implement it into their writing.
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By the end of the lesson, grade 3 and 4 students, in groups, will have written the time, place and adjectives that describe the setting in the picture book Last Stop of Market Street in their reading response journals. Using only the class presentation and activities.
Lesson 4: Math Bingo
This lesson is intended to reinforce the topic of angles and lines. As well as to review polygons before the next lesson. The students have just learned/reviewed angles (acute, obtuse, right) and lines (parallel and perpendicular). The students will be learning/reviewing the properties of polygons in the next lesson and so I will do a quick review of them to get them ready for the next lesson and upcoming math test.
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By the end of the lesson, both grade 3 and 4 students will have successfully played a bingo game individually with the correct angles, lines and polygons on their bingo board using the information from the Pear Deck class review presentation on angles, lines and properties of polygons.
Lesson 5: Problem and Solution
At the end of their story writing project, the students will be creating their own narrative story. In this lesson, the students will be learning about the importance of problem and solution and how it contributes to the overall story. This is building on their knowledge of characters and setting from the previous classes. This will be useful when they are brainstorming ideas for their own stories. They will use their knowledge about problem and solution and implement it into their own writing. As the students will have learned character, setting and problem and solution (after this lesson), we will create a Halloween story as a class using these three story elements as practice for writing their own stories later on.
By the end of the lesson, grade 3 and 4 students, in partners, will underline the problem in red and the solution in blue within the short story provided. They will only use the class presentation and activities to carry out the activity.
