Title of lesson Flowers in the Garden

Grade Level 4th/5th

Standard(s) 4.VA CR:1.2
Collaboratively set goals and create
artwork that is meaningful and has purpose
to the makers
ELD:
Interacting in Meaningful ways
B. Interpretive
5. Listening actively to spoken English in a
range of social and academic contexts
Class Population 28 students. This lesson will have all that are
present in class. This is a collaborative lesson
that will include my IEP, ELL learners and my
behavior issue students.
Planning/Designing Learning Experience For this lesson, I created it from a book that
we used in my Visual and Performing Arts
class that I thought would work as a great
way to not only incorporate art but to also
allow these students to work together to
create something as a class.
Lesson Objective Students will be able to follow the rules and
listen actively to what is being said to create
a collaborative piece of artwork.
Academic Language There is no real academic language in this
lesson. the one that I could say would come
up is the difference between what a circle
and a dot are.
Language Supports The language support that I will be using in
this lesson is to go slow and repeat if needed
so that they can stay on task and with the
rest of the class.
Materials and Resources Materials: butcher paper, markers
Formative Assessment The assessment strategy I am going to use is
to just watch after giving instructions on if
they can follow along and do what it is
asking them to do.
Possible Challenges/Misconceptions One possible challenge that I could see with
this lesson is that some students may not
want to participate and may cause a
distraction. My way of trying to combat that
is by playing calming music in the
background and to just encourage them to
 join as a class.
Opening I will bring students into the class and ask
them to walk in quietly and to take a marker
from the table up front. I will then ask them
to find a place to stand around the paper on
the floor.
Introduction Begin by explaining the objective which is
Students will be able to follow the rules and
listen actively to what is being said to create
a collaborative piece of artwork. Explain that
in order for this to work they need to listen
to instructions carefully so that they are able
to create a piece of artwork together.
Remind them that they are not to just draw
whatever they want and that the purpose is
to listen and follow the directions together.
Body of Lesson Teacher: Are you ready? Here we go! I want
you to make a tiny dot.
Students: make tiny dot
Teacher: Stop. now swap places with
someone
Students: swap places
Teacher: I want to see a dot that is even
bigger. Reach out and make it a bit further
away- not just in front of your nose! we have
plenty of room so use up the space.
Students: Make a dot
Teacher: Swap places (students swap places)
now i’d like to see a dot that is bigger still… a
lot bigger and a lot futher away.
Now I want you to switch colors with
someone. Then draw a circle. Then a bigger
circle. and another circle a lot bigger.
Are you ready? Here we go! Swap places
with someone new don’t be afraid to move
down further. I’d like to see the biggest
circle you can make.
Now change colors with someone.
We are going to make one more circle.
Students: continue following instructions.
Teacher: Listen carefully because we are
going to speed things up.
I want to see:
dots on a dot
 dots inside a circle
dots around a circle
dots on a circle
a circle around a splotch
a circle around a circle
Teacher: Now trade spots with someone
again.
Look at the picture you now have 30 seconds
to add a dot, circle, sploth or even a spiral.
Students have 30 seconds to make
something else.
Teacher: Now we are going to transform this
picture that we have made. Listen carefully,
to create our picture I want you to switch
colors with someone choose 3 circles or dots
around you and create a flower.
Students: follow instructions.
Teacher: now stop. Change colors with
someone and then move to a new spot. DO
it again.
Students: Move to a new spot. Do it again.
Teacher: Now I want you to stop. if there is
any place where you think there should be
some more color i want you to listen to the
music and just make designs of what the
music is making you feel. do this for 1
minute.
Closure When the 1 minute is up, have them freeze.
Tell the students to look at what they have
created and explain that together they were
able to collaborate on a piece of art that
expresses them as a class and to listen
actively to instructions.
Accommodations/Modification/Differentiated Modification: If needed I can slow down to
Instruction help those that might have trouble
processing what is being asked of them