October 27th, 2015

This was our second lesson plan with the first graders learning dance concepts of Shape and Energy while learning vowels and action verbs. The shapes that we made with partners helped the students to remember how the vowel sounds by the shape that they made. By moving through the action verbs, the students are able to engage fully in the learning process. 

Arts Bridge Integrated Lesson Plan

By: Katelynn Reed

Subject Concepts	Arts Concepts
Content Covered: Learning Vowels and Action Verbs	Content Covered: Shape and Energy Qualities
Learning Outcomes: The students will be able to learn the proper way to pronounce the vowels correctly and remember action verbs in their current unit.	Learning Outcomes: The students will be able to learn basic concepts in dance correlating to Energy and Space through improvisation and movement sequences.

Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: By the end of the 45 min lesson plan the students will be able to memorize and remember the vowels and action verbs through shape qualities and

Assessment: Mastery of their performance of dancing in particular shapes and energy qualities while singing the songs to pronounce vowels and action verbs correctly.

Materials Needed: YouTube: Vowels  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBli926zxc   Action verbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-csuoX_uM7U Letter cards of A, E, I, O, and U. Images of wall, ball, pyramid, screw, and pin.

Lesson Sequence: Rules of the classroom: ·         Respect: Look at the teacher when she is talking ·         Safety: Bare feet or tennis shoes ·         Responsibility: No pushing or touching your classmates Warm Up: Explore running verses walking When the students hear number 1 “uno” the students know to walk. When they hear the number 2 “dose” they know to run. When they hear me clap they know to make a shape. Experiment with various patterns. Introduce different shape patterns by having the students run around the classroom. When each shape is called, the students will make a shape. ·         Pin- linear ·         Wall- flat ·         Ball- round ·         Screw- twisted ·         Pyramid- tetrahedral These shapes will be used to help the students create shapes will the vowels. When they hear the vowel they will make that designated shape pattern. A-By yourself make an A shape with feet separated in second position, with hands connected and straight overhead E- Student will need to find a partner. One student will sit on the ground with their legs extended and arms extended outward. The second student will stand behind and outstretch their arms at a 90-degree angle. I-Student will jump up and point the I with their fist. O- Three people will be in a group one would lay on the ground extending their arms and legs, the other two will be on stand clasping hands. U- This will be done in partners, both sitting on the ground with their pockets outstretched on the floor with their arms directly up. Put everything together by using the song from YouTube and creating a dance using the shapes created in class. The students will sing to the song while in that shape and bounce to the music. They will locomote on the transitions and in the fast part they have an axial movement phrase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBli926zxc Now we will work on Action Verbs: caminar, brincar, bailar, correr, comer, y domir (walk, jump, dance, run, eating, and sleeping). They students will learn a sequence about energy from these vocab words Caminar- Percussive Brincar- Explosive Bilar- Vibratory Correr- Sustained Comer- Swing Domir- Collapse Then complete the dance movements they just learned to the YouTube video song. YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-csuoX_uM7U Cool Down: stretch

AEIOU

Pin

Wall

Ball

Pyramid

Screw