ECE Department

Lesson Plan Format

Name: Chirana Berntson
Title of Lesson
Content Area

Show me your move

Movement

Targeted Age Group

4 year olds
Standards: Milestones of Early Learning, VA Foundation Blocks, or VA Standards of
Learning (SOLs)
VA Physical and Motor Development Foundation Block 4
1. Listen to and follow simple directions. SOLs-Skilled Movement
K.1 The students will demonstrate progress toward the nature form of selected
locomotor and non-locomotor skill.
2. Demonstrate the non-locomotor movements of bending, pushing, pulling, stretching,
turning, twisting, swinging, swaying, rocking, and balancing
Learning Objective(s): (What do you want children to understand after completing this
lesson?)
After this lesson the students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate good listening skills and cooperative behaviors.
2. Use their imagination to show their movement.
Resources/Materials Needed: (What resources will the teachers and the children use?)
1. CD with appropriate childrens music
2. Stereo
Strategies: (How will the teacher engage the children? What activities will the children
complete? Indicate the teacher questions/prompts, expected child action, and the closing
portion. Indicate at which point the students are teacher-directed and at which point they are
child-directed.)
1. (Teacher-directed) Teacher will ask students to make a circle while everyone is standing.
Teacher will ask students to sing along to, Ring around the Rosie. At the end the end of the
song we will all fall down (students will sit down).
2. (Teacher-directed) Teacher will ask students to stretch their legs. We are going to stretch
out our legs, just like I do. Teacher will say, reach up to the sky, bend to the left, and bend to

the right. Teacher will then say, put your hand on your side, and now open your legs, and
close. Teacher will say it faster and faster move legs faster in an open and close motion.
3. (Teacher-directed)Teacher plays music and asks children to follow the music. The music
will set the tempo for the activity and teacher will instruct students, on how to move such as:
walking, walking, hop, hop, hop, (as the music goes faster) running, running, running, now we
stop. Tip toe, tip toe, etc. Students will follow the directions and follow the teachers action
until the music stops. Teacher expects students to stop and listen. Teacher says, standing in
your own place, make your feet move fast, then slowly.
4. Teacher will ask students to scatter around the room with adequate space between them.
Then teacher will call out challenges like the following: Show me how small (tall, wide, thin,
etc.) you can be. Students will direct themselves, or copy the teacher or peers.
5. Teacher says, Be a tree, wall, ball, river, etc, and then expects students to act as they think
the tree acts. Students will act out as they and their imagination see fit. (child-directed)
6. At the closing portion, teacher will say, we had a good exercise today, and we learned how
to act as many things as we can. Did you have fun? Next time we are going to dance and act
out more!
Adaptation for Learner Diversity: (How can this lesson be adapted or structured for children
with special needs or different age groups?)
For children with special needs, teacher will guide children to look at objects in the room
and notice where they are located. Then teacher will have children close their eyes and
point to objects in the room that you call out (ex. The door, chalkboard, window, floor,
playhouse etc.)

Assessment: (How will you determine the extent to which the children grasped the concept?)
The child will be able to demonstrate actions from given direction correctly in four out of
five trials.
Optional Analysis/Reflection: (How well did this lesson work? Would you change anything
next time?)
This activity went well and students participated well. They listened to and followed the
directions. I would change some objects for student to act out since for some objects they did
not know how to act out and also add more fun music for them to dance and sing.
Source of Idea/Information:
Creative Activities for young children book by Mary Mayseky