KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate: Alison Waldron

Date: 2/18/15

Cooperating Teacher: Mrs. Colleen Berger

Coop. Initials: _________

Group Size: 22

Grade Level: K

Allotted Time: 60 minutes

Subject or Topic: The President

Section: 1

STANDARD(S):
1.6.K.A: Listen and respond appropriately to others in small and large group
situations.1.3.K.A: Respond to works of literature.
1.3.K.C: Identify literary elements (characters, settings, and problems) in stories
CC.1.1.K.D: Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding
words. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major
vowels.
5.1.K.F: Identify significant American holidays and their symbols.
I.

Performance Objectives:
A. Students will be able to recognize and repeat short o sounds.
B. Students will be able to recall the facts in the story and in class discussion.

II.

Instructional Materials
A. Pencils for students
B. iPad with camera and plug in
C. Document Camera
D. Word wall and w/s
E. Arthur Meets The President by Marc Brown
F. Big American Symbols chart
G. Obama fact sheets
H. Whiteboard and markers

I. Short o worksheets
J. Pointer stick
K. Short o word houses (premade by teacher months ago)
III.

Subject Matter/Content
A. Prerequisite skills
Listening skills
Writing skills
Short o knowledge
B. Key Vocabulary
President
Obama
The White House
American Symbols
recite
memorize
you, his, in, will
stop, lollipop, raindrop, cop, chop, mop, hop, top
C. New Content
President facts
D. Big Idea
Students will learn some facts about the President of the USA and
where he lives.
Students will be reviewing their work with the short o sound by
using worksheets and repeating familiar short o words.

IV.

Implementation
A. Introduction
Review short o
1. words and sound
Go over the CVC short o words in the word house
1. Examples: flop, stop, mop
2. Say all the sounds of the word while pointing to the letters and
have the children say with you and say whole word after
sounds
Go through all the words
1. Use marker for own words if wanted
Repeat words where children say the sounds/words wrong
Have individuals participate by themselves if they are not paying
attention
Go over pictures in pocket chart
1. Same procedure as above
Go over o song
1. CD to song #15

2. Sing words on paper with children and movements

Go over directions for o picture on door
1. Everyone, if they want to, can bring in short o pictures of
objects for the bathroom door.
2. Give some examples:
a. mop, pop, cop, drop, dot, pot and etc.
Everyone quietly walk back to your seats.
Hold up the short o worksheet
Go through all the words and pictures so they know what they are
1. Go through all of them like you did with the word house, sound
then whole word
2. Pictures: stop, cop, chop, mop, hop, top, lollipop and raindrop
3. Cut and paste the pictures to the sheet after your name.
4. There are eight pictures and only six spots to glue, what does
that mean?
5. There will be two pictures that do not have the short o sound
so you will not use them.
a. What are they?
Ask the paper passers to help pass out the short o worksheets

B. Development
Review flag and Statue facts on big chart
1. Teacher reads flag facts first and they repeat
2. Same with SofL facts
Drink break if needed
Call the children to the back rug.
Read Arthur Meets the President to the children
1. Page 1: How would you make American great?
a. Pick two or three hands
2. Page 5: What do you think the letter says? Think about the
title.
3. Page 6: Does anyone know what a P.A. system is?
a. Public Announcement system, like the one that we use
to make the announcements in the beginning of the day.
b. Hmmm, I wonder what Arthur wrote about!
4. Page 8: What does the word recite mean? (Memorize?)
a. To repeat (to remember)
5. Page 10: Why do you think he feels sick?
6. Skip Page 11 and 12
7. Page 18: How do you think he will do?
a. Three hands
8. Paraphrase page 21/22
a. First they visited the Washington Monument. It has
898 steps to get to the top!

b. Then they visited the Capitol building where the

people, called the Congress, make the law for the
USA.
c. Then they visited the National Museum of Natural
History.
i. Does anyone know what history means?
d. The last stop was The White House!
i. Read the couple sentences about the White
House on page 22
9. Page 24: Does anyone know what the Rose Garden is?
a. The garden in front of the White House
10. End: Raise your hand if you would hang upside down on a
tree to help a friend?
11. Drink break if needed
12. Have the students move back to their seats
a. By color of shirt or table
13. Have the paper passers pass out the President fact sheets
14. Pull the fact sheet up on the doc.cam.
15. Have everyone write their names on the sheet
16. Read the picture in the middle
a. **Have tabs already set up on the iPad of Obama facts
17. Show the students a picture of Obama
18. Barack is his first name
a. Have them repeat this.
19. He is the 44th President of the USA, George Washington was
the 1st and Abe was the 16th.
20. Have them color in the picture in the middle
21. Go over the facts together and fill in and color
a. Family dog - Bo, Portuguese water dog
i. Show picture from tab
b. Daughters/family
i. Barack - 53
ii. Michelle - wife, 51
iii. Malia Ann- daughter, 16
iv. Natasha - daughter, 13
1. Show picture from tab
c. From Hawaii
i. Show picture from tab
d. White house
i. Show picture
ii. Has anyone ever been there or heard about it?
Drink break if needed
Move to the front of the room

C. Closure
Go over words on the word wall
1. You, His, In, Will
Hold up worksheet and go over it
1. Read, Write, Cut and Glue
Have them put it on the window sill if the do not finish
D. Accommodations/Differentiation
Mute student: Ask yes or no questions
Speech students: Repeat sounds
Multiple levels: Ask different leveled questions to different leveled
students
E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
Formative
1. Check list for completing paper and participating in reading
Summative
1. Post Test same as Pre test
V.

Reflective Response
A. Report of Students Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives (after lesson is
taught)
A lot of the children seem very interested in the lesson today. Other
than the couple of students with attention issues, (#3 and #20.) they
were very involved. A lot of them are starting to write about the
American Symbols in their kid writing books, which is very exciting
to see.
B. Personal Reflection
Did I follow my lesson plan? Why or why not?
1. I followed my lesson plan but it was spread out during the
whole day because there were a lot of scheduled things today
that we had to work around. I was all over the place but at the
end of the day, everyone was able to do all the parts of my
lesson and really well.
2. The one student (#4) that was not here for the pretest day was
taken out into the hallway with Mrs. Berger to finish during the
beginning/review of my lesson.
Was I confident enough to get my point across?
1. I did feel confident with my lesson today because it was about
the American Symbols that I have been doing since the second
week. I love teaching them about something that is not
necessarily something they would wanted to learn about first.

2. Colleen Berger was out of the classroom in the hallway with

the students throughout the whole day doing a couple different
assignments with them so
VI.

Resources
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