Unit

overview Bugs and Butterflies, week one lead teacher: Mrs. Anderson
Overall goal of lesson

Day 1
Pre-work: place insects on a
grid -- crawl, fly or both?

Group talk: what kinds of
bugs did you see this
summer? -- count

Word wall: Divide into
groups/pairs with assigned
words. Think, Pair, Share to
read, say and understand 5
new basic words that relate to
food, shelter and movement:

Group 1: eat, run, fun, fly,
bug, egg
Group 2: swim, crawl, jump,
hide, fear
Day 2

Pre-work: place white beans
on green leaf to show math
groupings matching
addition/subtraction
problems

Group Talk: Read Very
Hungry Caterpillar

Play Numbered Heads
Together to answer questions
about what happens in the
story.

Whole body: In a second
reading, they will be able to
act out the story using props
and appropriate motions.

Focal language
domain

Language
focus (vocab,

(listening, speaking,
reading, writing)

pragmatics,
grammar, etc.)

Listening



Speaking,
math

Resources

Assessment

(specify title, web

address, technology,
genre, etc.)

(specify what type of

formative/summative
assesment will use)

cognition



schema of
experience




Vocabulary

Worksheet or
laminated grid


Feltboard and
insects




Picture cards
with vocabulary
words

Formative
Checklist for
comprehension,
ability to place
bugs on grid,
vocab words,
oral
participation in
group talk.





Summative
read, say and
understand 5
new vocabulary
words.

Math






Listening
Speaking

Comprehension

Green leaf
shapes and
white beans


Book: The very
hungry
caterpillar

Props to act out
the story

Formative -
teacher to check


Formative -- Who
can say the name
of the story?

Summative
participation
checklist. How
well was he/she
able to act out the
story on scale of
1-3.

Reading,
Listening,
Speaking,

Cognition

2s 4 steps
3s - 6 steps

life cycle wheel

Read at least five

of six new words
on flashcards and
use them in a
sentence

Day 3
Pre-work: pencil maze of
butterfly metamorphosis (7
steps)in order or make and

color life cycle wheel (4 steps)

and explain out loud.

Group talk: Write numerals
on individual whiteboards
Math: how many legs does a
spider have? How many
butterfly eggs on the leaf? etc.

Vocabulary:
Level 2s Emerging: Match
words on 3x5 cards with
pictures from the story and
write them in order.
Level 3s Developing: Arrange
words and pictures on a board
and tell a story.

Edible metamorphosis: eggs,
caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly
Day 4
Prework: Play Music &
slideshow while students
begin a torn paper collage

Play Numbered Heads
Together to Introduce all
words to all students, use
them in sentences, and place
them on the word wall

Math






Writing

Vocabulary

Reading
Writing
Listening,
Speaking

Vocabulary

Writing
Reading
Listening
Speaking

Grammar &
Syntax

Day 5
Prework: Finish collage
Group: Play Think, Pair, Share
Scaffold writing with sentence
frames. Add a sentence to
collage using word wall
list. Level 3s - will write their
own sentences. Level 2s will
use cut up words to make a
sentence, then write it.

template




Word/picture
3x5 cards











Tiny
marshmallows,
gummy worms,
tootsie rolls,
butterfly crackers

Slideshow with
bugs and
butterflies

paper painted all
different colors


photos of bugs
and butterflies to
choose and add
to collage







Sentence frames

Cut words for 2s
to make
sentences.

Summative
when children
arrange edibles in
correct order they
can eat them!

Formative read,
say and
understand 10
new vocabulary
words

Summative
Journal: trace and
write 10 new
words.

Formative read,
write, say and
understand 10
new vocabulary
words.


Summative
portfolio:
Level 1 write
sentence. Level 2
use cut up
words, then write.