Lessons+from+Wednesday

Please post your lessons here (put your initials or first names so we know who you are)! Thanks! Great, great lessons in class!!! ~ Jess

Sarah, Kara and Lisa (ladies: please embellish this, it's kind of bare-bones. -Lisa) Lesson plan incorporating the book “The Very Lonely Firefly” by Eric Carle Age level: K-1. - Begin with an aloud reading of the storybook. Elicit ideas of the "powerful" words from the story as you read. (linguistic, naturalist) - Review the song “This Little Light of Mine.” Using the words that the students picked out from the story, rewrite verses of the song (a sort of ‘fill in the blank’ game: “This glowing light of mine” and then “This little candle of mine” etc.). Use a sentence frame to appeal to logically oriented students. (linguistic, logical, musical) - Visual art project: students could make paper versions of the lamp, candle, etc. (different textures, reflective/non-reflective papers) (spatial, intrapersonal) - Performance: singing the story and holding up their projects at moments in the song when their object is named. (musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal)

I notice that there are some other classroom ideas on Eric Carle's site [] -Lisa

"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" Lesson Outline Amy, Chris, Michele (team, please add/make any changes you wish!) Middle School ELA - Begin by asking students to journal about their favorite season: What is your favorite season? Why? What are some things you like to do in that season? Describe some season using the five senses. Students will be put into small groups based on their favorite season. - Ask for a volunteer to read Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" - In small groups, students make meaning of the poem. Ask students to look for sensory imagery in the poem, things that relate to all 5 senses - While students work, play Vivaldi's Four Seasons in the background - After disussing the poem, students will either work in their season groups or by themselves (they choose) to write a poem about their season - Students can either act out the poem or create a visual image of their poem as well - Students will also discuss how Vivaldi's portrayal of the seasons helps their interpretation.

"This Jazz Man" by [|Karen Ehrhard]t (Catie and Wayne)

1. Teacher reads aloud "This Jazz Man" using voice changes and body movements. Students will pick up the pattern and will sing/dance along. 2. Students create their own "Knick-knack-paddy-whack" poems/rhymes, noting words and movements to represent sounds. 3. Students create illustrations to accompany their poems.