November 3rd, 2015

Today we did a lesson on nouns! It was so fun for the kids! 

Arts Bridge Integrated Lesson Plan: Nouns

By: Katelynn Reed 

Song Contribution and ideas from Jana Shumway

Subject Concepts	Arts Concepts
Content Covered: Nouns	Content Covered: Energy and Shape
Learning Outcomes: The students will be able to learn and understand what a noun is and what the specific nouns are for the week.	Learning Outcomes: The students will be able to make shapes with their bodies and find different energy concepts dimensions to express their understanding of movement.

Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: The students will be able to make shapes with their bodies correlating to a specific noun and find different energy concept dimensions to express their understanding of movement verb vocabulary.

Assessment: Students will be assessed through creating a story by testing their understanding using the different nouns learned and create a beginning middle and end.

Materials Needed: Pictures of person, place, thing or animal Noun is a person place or thing, school of house Rock! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzlQ0wciXM0 Pictures and names with all the nouns for the lesson

Lesson Sequence: Warm Up and Review: Vowels Dance Action Verb Dance El Balie de la fruita Learning Nouns Introduce Nouns with pictures: Person, place, thing, and animal. Arriba Abajo: Sing the following song: Oh every person that you know And every place that you can go And everything that you can show You know they’re nouns You know they’re nouns Noun is a person place or thing, school of house Rock! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzlQ0wciXM0 Have the children sing with you as they learn the song. Then dance the song. Oh every person that you know Dance with a friend And every place that you can go Run fast to get to a “place” then make a shape And everything that you can show Pick up a ribbon on the floor and dance with the ribbon You know they’re nouns Free dance then freeze on the word “nouns” You know they’re nouns Free dance then freeze on the word “nouns” Now introduce the nouns from the vocab list. Here are the nouns we will be learning today! They will make the shape of each noun and then move that noun in a verb like fashion 1.      Muneca (doll) Make different shapes of a doll. Make a tall skinny doll, solider doll, short doll, an army doll 2.      Pinata: Make a piñata shape! A hat piñata, a person piñata, a pumpkin piñata! A piñata swings back and forth and then bursts open with candy, now burst open! 3.      Caballo: Gallop like a horse! 4.      Camello: Make a hump like a camel and walk with the same arm as leg around the room. 5.      Oveja: Walk on all four legs and chew like a goat. 6.      Barco: Make a shape of ship. What does a ship do? Sway! Now saw like a ship 7.      Llave (key): Make a shape of a key! What does a key do? It will twist, now twist to unlock the door. 8.      Raqueta: Make a shape of a racket. What does a racket do? Swing to hit a ball. Now swing like a racket to hit a ball. 9.      Regalo: Make a shape of a gift. What are the different sizes? What gift are you? After they have explored with all the nouns, they will make a story about all the nouns and put it in order. Now we will create a story with all these nouns! What character do we have first? The Camel? What did the camel do? He used the key to open the door to the ship…then who came?... Write the story on the board and then make a dance about the story using the noun shapes that you used earlier. End class by talking about happened in terms on beginning, middle, and end. Or first, then, then, then, and last. If there is time, review the fruit lesson FRUTAS ·         Review the names of the fruit ·         Pass out to each student a little card with the name of the fruit in Spanish and a picture of the fruit on the card. ·         The students will all stand in a circle. When their fruit is called they will switch places with the other person that also has the same fruit as them. Only two people will have the same fruit with: ·         Naranja (orange) ·         Manzana (apple) ·         Platano (banana) ·         Pera (pear) ·         Cereza (Cherry) ·         Uvas (grapes) ·         Fresa (strawberries) ·         Melon (melon) ·         Sandia (watermelon) ·         Melocoton (peach) ·         Ciruela (plum) ·         Mango You are making and orchestra of fruit. There will be five different groups. 1.      Platono (Say the word twice and then peel the banana) 2.      Mansana (say one time then half Mansna, sana making a curving circle with the arms) 3.      Mango (Say mango three times with the hips swaying back and forth 4.      Uvas (say uvas four times while making circles with the hands and placing them in the space) 5.      Sandia (say one time and then pretend like you are sitting watermelon seeds) El balie de la fruita: Students will make a locotmotor pathway with their class by connection shoulders with their arms and making a chain. At first they will start with one line leader, then they will split the line and make two line leaders, then they will split again to make two line leaders and so forth. Melocoton (peach) fists punp down Mansana (apple)- under curve arms Pera (pear)- swivels Pina (pinapple) angled arms on three different levels Platono (banana) just make the shape of the banana with your body.