Specific attention has been paid to aligning the knowledge with activities which can be practiced every day aside from an "let's sit down and learn"-activities.

More specific attention has been paid to integrating activities which involve creativity, such as coloring (which can be varied when repeating the exercise) or the design of the "number 2" worksheet, so not to bore children and make them think about new solutions.

Lesson plan for obvious LETTERS

Lesson Plan : “ABCs made easy”  

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Secondary Subjects - Art 

Grade Level – Pre-K, K, ESE  

Time: 20 minutes per letter  

Materials: alphabet book “obvious LETTERS”, one copy of the relevant page per child (don’t forget spare copies), scissors 

Objective: To reinforce the memorization of the letters via auditory, visual, and kinesthetic methods.  

Process:  

1)  Since most children are visual learners, please begin by showing off the letter, for example “Q” as in “QUIET” (see below). Discuss what the page shows: an index finger held over the lower lip of a slightly opened mouth. Ask the children if they can guess what the person is trying to say… aha … “QUIET”  

2)  Hand out the copies and ask the children to put their index fingers under the word, which is written under the illustration. Together “read” the word while slowly moving the fingers from letter to letter.  

3)  Discuss whether you think that the person on the picture is a man or a woman. Conclude that the person is probably a woman wearing lipstick. Ask if the children have ever seen somebody applying lipstick.  

4)  Instruct the children to use crayons and pretend the “color” the lips.  

5)  When the children are finished ask them to stand up and do the as the picture shows. Have them all (relatively) “quietly” sound out “QUIET” while putting the emphasis on the “Q” sound.  

Please note: this like many other associative pictures in “obvious LETTERS” can be “acted out”. Please click obvious LETTERS for more information.

Closure: Ask the children to cut out the associative picture (remove the word underneath), on their copy, and to take it home and to ask their parents if they can recognize what letter the picture depicts. This is to keep the parents informed what their children are doing as well to create a sense of pride in the children that they “created” a letter.  

© 2000 by Gisela Hausmann, permission for publication under Gisela Hausmann is granted.

Lesson plan for Hands on Mathematics, Numbers from 1 -10

Lesson Plan : Number “2” and the “symmetrical human body”

Primary Subject - Mathematics

Secondary Subject – Science

Grade Level – Pre-K, K, ESE

Time: 30 minutes

Materials: CD-book “Hands on Mathematics, Numbers from 1-10”, one copy of “worksheet Number 2” per child, crayons in a variety of colors

Objective: To reinforce the memorization of “number 2” via auditory, visual, and kinesthetic methods. 

Process: 

1)       Explain: The number “2” very often describes pair. Name: e.g. a “pair of shoes”, name a more difficult one: “a pair of pants has 2 leg parts" 

2)       Ask the children what “pairs of something" they see in the room. Each pair of something can be named only once (ears, eyes, arms,...). Make a checkmark for each item named on the blackboard.  

3)       Explain that the body of humans is symmetrical which means that any body part which is one the one side is on the other side as well. Ask the children if they now can find more pairs. (go for the not so obvious: e.g. a pair of thumbs, pinkies, etc.) Again, make a checkmark for each item named on the blackboard so they children can see how many pairs they found.   

4)       Discuss that that 2 very often describes a pair, things that go together, but at the same time it also describes opponents = people or groups that try to win against each other (soccer teams, baseball teams, etc.) and 1 opponent cannot be an opponent without another one. Ask who plays a sport with teams who try to win against another team.  

5)       Do worksheet 2. 

Tell the children that once they are finished you are going to collect the sheets to put 2 stickers on it for great work. 

Copyright © August 2004 by Gisela Hausmann, permission for publication under Gisela Hausmann is granted.

For more information please click Hands on Mathematics.

Details from page 2:

Interesting fact: 2 very often describes a pair, like a pair of gloves, shoes, glasses, or pants.

But 2 does not always mean a pair of something: When 2 sport teams play against each other each team tries to defeat the second team. Another important fact is: The prefix: “bi-” means 2 of something: a bicycle has 2 wheels, binoculars have 2 lenses, a bikini is a 2 parts bathing suit.

Activity: Anytime you and your child see a bi-cycle, bi-noculars, bi-focal glasses, a bi-lingual person, a bi-kini ask your child what s/he thinks what item/talent exists 2 times.

Playing chess is a sport.

Each one of 2 players tries to defeat his opponent.

Other team sports in which you might participate and want to defeat your team’s opponent are: soccer, basketball, football, and tennis.

Activity: Anytime you and your child see a sport event in real life or on TV point out that it takes 2 teams to figure out a winner.

Humans have symmetrical skeletons. That means they have the same bones on the right and the left side of their bodies.

That is why people wear pairs of shoes, socks, stockings, pants, gloves, sunglasses, and earrings.

Activity: Practice finding "pairs" with your child. A perfect time to do this could be when doing laundry or sorting a closet.

Hands on Mathematics                                 obvious LETTERS                                         Home

Educ-Easy Books, PO Box 7054, Wilmington, NC 28406

Telephone (910)798-5042

Fax (305) 723-0203

educeasy@bellsouth.net