Birds Nest

LESSON PLAN

Thematic Unit: The Birds

Name of the Lesson: Weaving a Nest for 5 years old

Objective:	Ø  At the end of the lesson, the children will be able to understand how the nest is made by seeing an illustration of varied types of nest. Ø  Refine their physical skills through fine motor activity as they learn to weave their own nest using a yarn or a ribbon.
Pre-requisite Skills:	Recognition and understanding how and why the birds made their own nest and the importance of it. It will allow also the children to develop emotional and spiritual skills through empathizing with the Birds efforts of making it as they also making their own model nest.
Materials Needed:	Ø  Half a paper plate cut and punched hole across twice Ø  1 large strip of yarn or ribbon for each child (30 inches) Ø  1 brown or yellow crayon per child to shade the paper plate Ø  1 book about Birds Ø  1 real or fake birds nest
Classroom Dynamics:	Ø  During the discussion or presentation of the lesson and the display of the materials particularly the nest, the children must be seated in a semi-circle arrangement. Ø  During the activity or the nest weaving the children will be seated at their desk.
Presentation:	Ø  Children will be shown a bird’s nest. It will be passed around from child to child as the teacher will remind the students
Reinforcement Activity	Gather the students outside preferably in the park and let them look for a bird's nest. If they cannot find, bring them back inside the classroom or just gather them around you and show to them the man-made nest that you made. Let their imagination started to flow as you are discussing about the activity for the day. In the classroom: let them make their own bird's nest. Let them manipulate the materials and create according to their own will.
Developmental Focus:	Social, cognitive, emotional and fine motor skills

Lego Building Blocks: Little Builder

Unit Title: Building Blocks

Activity Name: Little Builder

Age Group: 5 to 6 years old

Goal of the Activity: (Using Blooms Taxonomy as a guide, what specific skills are you targeting). The skills I am targeting for this activity are to select, construct, explain, organize and demonstrate in their own way of making or building blocks.

Objective: At the end of the lesson the students will know how to manipulate and build a simple figure using mega blocks.

Materials Required: (All the materials need for the lesson and the reinforcement activity)

• DVD for watching Lego movie
• Mega blocks (plastic or wooden) in various shapes and sizes

Settings: (How is the classroom set up for the lesson and the activity?)

1. Gather all the materials needed for the activity.
2. Let the children sit on the floor to watch the Lego Movie.
3. After watching the movie, pause a few minutes to let the children relax and stabilize their excitement from the movie.

Procedure: (List the steps to accomplish your goal and the reinforcement activity)

1. After watching the movie, out all he materials needed for the activity (Lego blocks)
2. Let the children stay on their position and tell them about the building blocks activity. This activity is like a free play, so the children have to use their own imagination and creativity on how to manipulate and construct a figure. ( Teacher should always praise the child after they accomplish something.
3. The reinforcement activity will be focus on counting and using simple words to describe what a child can do with the blocks.

Implementing the Reinforcement Activity: (List the steps to explain the activity)

1. With the same materials and probably the same setting position, ask the children to count the blocks while building. (Use to reinforce counting and numbers). Counting can be done in group to make it more fun for them.
2. Let them describe in a simple words about their feelings while doing the activity.

Developmental Focus:  (What other areas of development does this lesson and activity cover?)

1. The lesson and activity covered in most areas of development such as fine-motor skills, physical and social skills. In addition, mathematical skills will come into as well as cognitive skills by implementing the reinforcement activity.
2. The other areas of development that are covered are social and emotional skills. This is when the children interact with each other. By doing so, they start building their self-esteem.

Extensions: (How can you extend the focus of the activity to encourage development in another area).

1. With the same set of materials and probably added some extra blocks with different figures and shapes, let the children enjoy the freedom of playing.
2. From time to time, teacher will interrupt and join the play and simply asking the children what she/he is trying to do with the blocks.
3. Always praise the child when they accomplish something, this is to boost their self-esteem.