November 5th, 2015

Today we completed a lesson on learning the beginning, middle, and end of a story. I taught the lesson through a book called "Just a Minute" That integrates Spanish and English! To test their understanding of the timeline of a story they drew on their white boards pictures of what they danced from the First thing, the middle of the story and then the end. 

Arts Bridge Lesson Plan

November 5^th, 2015

Katelynn Reed

Ideas from Ruth Lovato and Heather Heiner

Objective: Whole Child/ Life Skills Focus/ Understanding beginning, middle, and end of a story (start, then, then, then, last).

Artform Element focus: Explore/contextualize- In unique ways explore qualities of movement (explode, vibrate, and collapse).

Cultural: Learn about folk tales from an authentic culture.

Lesson goal: Students will be able to demonstrate a variety of energy qualities in movement. Students will also develop a new vocabulary. They will also understand what a beginning, middle and end is in a story.

Lesson Plan:

Materials: Just a minute by Yuri Morales ISBN 10 0-8118-3758-0 Music from ipod

Warm Up ·         Read the first page and point out Senor Calavera. Ask the students to identify parts of his body, focusing on the joints. Explain the joints necessary for moving. ·         Create a body-part warm up by focusing on the joints of the body. Creating (Energy) Using the book as a springboard, assign a different energy quality to each stage of the story. Begin with open exploration and then practice stopping at count 8 and count 4. Explore energy qualities in sets of three. ·         Uno- one house to sweep- swinging ·         Dos- Two pots to boil- rebounding ·         Tres-Three tortillas to stretch- Sustained ·         Cuatro-four fruits to slice- percussive ·         Cinco-five cheese to melt- melting ·         Seis- six steaming pots- sustained ·         Siete- seven piñatas to explode- Exploding ·         Ocho- eight platters to shake-angry ·         Nueve- Nine grandchildren- happy ·         Diez- the Celebration (the grade finale) Contextualizing What kinds of energy did you see? What was the beginning of the story? Middle? End? Assessment On a white board draw a four square dividing the board into four quadrants. Have the first labeled as beginning, second two as middle, and last square as the end. The students will draw a picture of what happened in the story for the beginning middle and end to test their understanding of what the beginning middle and end comprises of.