Donna Meehan
Learning Activity Title: Learning the ABC's Grade/Age Level: PreK-Kg Content Area: Language Arts Skills Focus: Letter Identification and using technology to publish written work. Time required: Weekly lesson, but can be ongoing throughout year.
Lesson Description: Children will be identifying alphabet letters through stories, songs, games and rhymes. They will be applying what they learned to activities on the computer. After group activities, there is time for small group and individual activities to help each child create their own individual stories on the computer. Social skills will increase due to collaborative efforts when working together and helping each other with their projects. Each child will create art to represent what they have written in their stories and we will combine them into individual books for our library center. They will gain technology skills and learn how the internet works with staff support. Children will have not time limit on this project and may add to it throughout the year. We will use binders so the children can add items as they create them. When children have completed their work, they can present it as a story to the class and either take it home or keep it in the classroom library.
Learning goals and objectives: Children will develop pre-reading skills familiarizing them with the alphabet, the sounds each letter makes, and familiar words or objects that they can relate to each letter. Children will type letters on Word becoming familiar with the computer. Cutting and gluing skills increasing fine motor skills will be assessed. Letter identification and formation skills will also be assessed. Children will join in group activities, but they can also learn and explore at their own rate.
Differentiation and Multiple Intelligiences: This lesson appeals to all learners because it has auditory and visual forms. This lesson can reach all intelligiences through the variety of songs, games, and activities that can be presented by extending each area of learning even bringing the naturalist into play by using environmental print and patterns.
Resources and Materials:
Microsoft Word, computer, printer
Kid Pix Art CD
Alphabet Action at Learningplanet.com
Alphabet Island
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom
Alphabet matching games
Alphabet letter mazes/puzzles
Using sand and shaving cream to practive writing letters
Alphabet Sounds - Book of songs
Glue, paper, magazines, scissors, paint, crayons, clay, sand and shaving cream, cotton balls.
Procedures:
Read the children the stories. When you are finished discuss the stories with them. Discuss that the letters all worked together in AlphabetIsland and they all ran up to the top of the coconut tree in Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom. Have the children work together to create a large coconut tree. They will cut out the letters from their name that they find in magazines or they can trace them and cut them out. Use brown and green paper to rip strips to make the coconut tree. Have the children glue the tree onto blue paper. Then they can sprinkle sand on the bottom of the page. The letters they cut out can be glued onto the paper as if climbing up the tree.
Children can use cotton balls to count with according to how many letters are in their name. They then place the correct number of coconuts (cottom balls) on the tree. Open Kid Pix and use it to create a design for the letters, print them out and have the children color them with crayons. Kid Pix can also be used to create art for the childrens stories.
Children will listen to CD while following along through the Alphabet Sounds book and singing along by hearing the repeating rhymes. They hear silly sentences while learning the alphabet. Children will use the Word document to type the letters they know and type the letters in their names and print them out. They children can cut these letters out and put them on the coconut tree instead of magazine letters or tracing.
For a art activity the children can use their hands dipped in paint to create the top of a tree and their forearms to make the tree trunk. When it dries they can glue colored ABC macaroni on the tree.
Children will go for a walk and search for letters in the environment. They will collect objects from nature to create a collage of letters made from sticks, leaves, acorns, etc.
Children should be more familiar with the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that each makes, which will prepare them for learning to read. The will become familiar with using the computer and internet with adult supervision. The will learn to work together sharing ideas and increase their listening skills.
Learning Activity
Title: Learning the ABC's
Grade/Age Level: PreK-Kg
Content Area: Language Arts
Skills Focus: Letter Identification and using technology to publish written work.
Time required: Weekly lesson, but can be ongoing throughout year.
Lesson Description: Children will be identifying alphabet letters through stories, songs, games and rhymes. They will be applying what they learned to activities on the computer. After group activities, there is time for small group and individual activities to help each child create their own individual stories on the computer. Social skills will increase due to collaborative efforts when working together and helping each other with their projects. Each child will create art to represent what they have written in their stories and we will combine them into individual books for our library center. They will gain technology skills and learn how the internet works with staff support. Children will have not time limit on this project and may add to it throughout the year. We will use binders so the children can add items as they create them. When children have completed their work, they can present it as a story to the class and either take it home or keep it in the classroom library.
Learning goals and objectives: Children will develop pre-reading skills familiarizing them with the alphabet, the sounds each letter makes, and familiar words or objects that they can relate to each letter. Children will type letters on Word becoming familiar with the computer. Cutting and gluing skills increasing fine motor skills will be assessed. Letter identification and formation skills will also be assessed. Children will join in group activities, but they can also learn and explore at their own rate.
Differentiation and Multiple Intelligiences: This lesson appeals to all learners because it has auditory and visual forms. This lesson can reach all intelligiences through the variety of songs, games, and activities that can be presented by extending each area of learning even bringing the naturalist into play by using environmental print and patterns.
Resources and Materials:
Microsoft Word, computer, printer
Kid Pix Art CD
Alphabet Action at Learningplanet.com
Alphabet Island
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom
Alphabet matching games
Alphabet letter mazes/puzzles
Using sand and shaving cream to practive writing letters
Alphabet Sounds - Book of songs
Glue, paper, magazines, scissors, paint, crayons, clay, sand and shaving cream, cotton balls.
Procedures:
Read the children the stories. When you are finished discuss the stories with them. Discuss that the letters all worked together in Alphabet Island and they all ran up to the top of the coconut tree in Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom. Have the children work together to create a large coconut tree. They will cut out the letters from their name that they find in magazines or they can trace them and cut them out. Use brown and green paper to rip strips to make the coconut tree. Have the children glue the tree onto blue paper. Then they can sprinkle sand on the bottom of the page. The letters they cut out can be glued onto the paper as if climbing up the tree.
Children can use cotton balls to count with according to how many letters are in their name. They then place the correct number of coconuts (cottom balls) on the tree. Open Kid Pix and use it to create a design for the letters, print them out and have the children color them with crayons. Kid Pix can also be used to create art for the childrens stories.
Children will listen to CD while following along through the Alphabet Sounds book and singing along by hearing the repeating rhymes. They hear silly sentences while learning the alphabet. Children will use the Word document to type the letters they know and type the letters in their names and print them out. They children can cut these letters out and put them on the coconut tree instead of magazine letters or tracing.
For a art activity the children can use their hands dipped in paint to create the top of a tree and their forearms to make the tree trunk. When it dries they can glue colored ABC macaroni on the tree.
Children will go for a walk and search for letters in the environment. They will collect objects from nature to create a collage of letters made from sticks, leaves, acorns, etc.
Online Resources:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/online/alphabet/alphabet.htm
www.bostonkids.org/images/teacher_pdfs/bibliographies/Alphabet.pdf
www.readwritethink.org
http://www.starfall.com/
Evaluation:
Children should be more familiar with the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that each makes, which will prepare them for learning to read. The will become familiar with using the computer and internet with adult supervision. The will learn to work together sharing ideas and increase their listening skills.