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TERM/WEEKS: Term 2 week YEAR LEVEL: Pre-Primary LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: English

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AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom:

There is shared class IPads.
Only one rotation will need access to the IPads.
The IPads already have the apps needed for the rotation downloaded onto it.
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

1 English 1. Create a word cloud Objective 1: Introduction: “My Mum” by Anthony

using the app shapego informal assessment-  Whilst the students are sitting on the mat have a modelled Browne
Week 5 Retell familiar using their own When the students have reading session using the book “My Mum” by Anthony
literary texts descriptive words as well completed their shapego Browne. Focus on predicting words
through as words used in the read through each  Have a class discussion about their mothers: what they love
performance, use book students work and see about their mothers, what their mothers look like, what there
of illustrations 2. Take a photo utilising the what descriptive words mothers like doing ect.
and images dress-ups relating back to they have used for their  Discuss what each rotation will be for today and go through
(ACELT1580) the story and their own mothers. Write notes on the activity steps briefly
mothers each student and offer  Get students into groups of 4-5 and send each group to a
more support for those rotation
students who struggled
and challenge those who Body:
found the task too easy Rotation 1: Students make a word cloud using the app “Shapego”: 6 x IPads with the app
in the next English class.  Teacher will stay at this rotation shapego downloaded on
 Demonstrate to the students how to make a word cloud using them
Objective 2: the app “Shapego” on the iPads
Informal assessment-  Within the Shapego get the students to write about their
after the class, teacher mum: why they love their mother, what their mum is good at
looks at the photos the and what does their mother look like.
students took in dress-  Have examples printed out so that students have a better
ups and see if they understanding.
understood the task that  Have the book for students to look through
was asked of them.  Provide help when needed throughout the activity
Teacher just writes a  Get students to upload their Shapegos onto the seesaw app
small statement on each but do not publish until Mother’s Day
child and how they went
with the activity. 18x pre-printed flowers
Rotation 2: Mother Flower with the petals already
 Have the pre-printed flowers out with questions to answer written petals so
about their mother these questions include: my mums name
 is…, my mums hair colour is…, my mother’s eye colour is…, my students just have to fill
mum likes to…, my mum likes to wear…, my mum likes to in the missing blanks
buy… and my mum likes to cook…
 Have a pre filled in flower on the desk so that students 1 x pre written flower as
understand the activity an example for the
students to follow
Rotation 3: Chatter box
 Have the EA at this rotation to supervise and help the
students with this activity 18 x Chatter box
 Get students to use the chatter box template that has been templates
prepared prior 1 x already done chatter
 Students will choose 8 questions from the list that is on the box
table to write in their chatter box A list of questions
 If students have extra time they can decorate the chatter box students can use
Colouring pencils

Rotation 4: Dress ups

Costumes
 Have a part of the classroom environment for “Mother dress
1 x IPad
ups”
 There will be costumes in the costume box e.g. suit, dresses,
chefs outfit, nurse outfits, doctor outfits etc. so that students
can try to dress up like their mothers
 Students take a photo on the IPad when they have completed
their costume

Conclusion:
 Get students sitting back down on the mat
 Discuss what they did within that lesson
 Get 2 students from each rotation to show and demonstrate
to the class the work they have done