Your Name(s): Nicole Wallin and Emmanuel Hernandez

DAILY PLAN
Lesson Title: Patterns in Cursive

Grade Level: 4th

S & S Statements:
In this lesson, the students will be using their skills that they are currently acquiring through learning
cursive to help create a continuous line. This continuous line will create forms that will each be filled
with a different pattern. This will be an introduction to creating different patterns by using repeated lines
and shapes.

Concepts and Skills

The concepts learned through this lesson will include how continuous line can create form, and how to
fill that form with different types of patterns to make the image more interesting to look at.

Academic Language:
Pattern, Line, Shape, Form, Continuous Line

Purpose of Lesson:
The purpose of this lesson is to show the students how to use continuous line to create forms and how
to use different patterns to create a more interesting image.

Learning Objectives:

Technical: Given a presentation on patterns and how continuous line can be used to create images,
students will successfully create Multiple patterns using repetitive line and shape.

Conceptual: After the students write out their name and draw a continuous line through the paper
they will be given a presentation on patterns, and use construction paper, markers, pencil, and
colored pencils to create patterns to visually enhance their final artwork

Assessment Criteria:
Effectively create forms with a continuous line, and creatively used pattern to enhance the image..

Teaching Resources Needed to Support the Lesson:

Examples of continuous line, as well as examples of different patterns (powerpoint), smartboard,
example of project completed, examples of step-by-step process (powerpoint).

Art Materials Necessary for the Lesson:

(1) Colored 8.5x11” piece of construction paper, (1) marker of student’s choosing (not yellow, different
from paper color), (1) pencil, (1) erasure, and colored pencils

Teacher Directed Activities Student Activities

 (What you will do)
Introduction:
I’ll begin the lesson by talking about how the children
are learning cursive and explaining that cursive is
made by using a continuous line. I’ll then show some
examples via powerpoint of what else can be
created with continuous line and how that can be
utilized in art. Briefly, I will show an example of the
project that they will be producing. I’ll go into talking
about what patterns are and how they are created,
showing examples alongside the explanation.
(What the students will do)
Introduction
Students will be listening to the introduction to
the lesson and be engaged in the discussion by
being asked questions throughout the
presentation.
Development
Students will be listening and engaging through
questions and discussion during the
demonstration.

Development: Once the demonstration is complete, the

Next, I will show pictures on the powerpoint of a students will begin their work, asking questions
step-by-step demonstration of the project alongside as needed of any of the teachers available in
a hands-on demonstration on the whiteboard, further the room.
explaining how to set up the project.

Once the explanation is completed, I will let the Conclusion

students begin their projects. I will walk around the
classroom to help students with any questions they
may have and to help encourage them as they
proceed.
Students who finish early will turn in their
projects to me and work on different types of
patterns that they didn’t do as a practice. Other
students will work up to the end of class. Once
it reaches 5 til, the students will begin clean up.

Conclusion:
I will let the students work until the end of class. If
they finish early, I will ask them to experiment with
making patterns on a separate piece of paper. If they
do not finish, I will have them try to complete it before
the next lesson. 5 minutes before the end of class, I
will have them clean up their stations.

Critical Comments and Reflections:

In this lesson, I was the main teacher while Mr. Hernandez was my assistant. I think that the lesson
went well in terms of informing the students and letting them know what to do and how to do it. The
students in the majority seemed to understand how I wanted them to create the project, with some
needing a little bit of clarification on some things. The part I struggled the most with during the class
was classroom management. The children were well-behaved during the presentation, however, during
work time they became a bit more chaotic in terms of talking and distracting each other. It became
difficult to be conscious of who was talking, who was working, and who needed my help. Next time, I
will better organize how the materials are dispersed so students don’t keep getting out of their seats to
get more supplies and get distracted. I also need to be more firm with the students when it comes to
getting them to stay on task. Overall, I think the lesson went well.