Lesson Plan T/T Kids: February 23

Supplies: Lesson plan, book, poster, homework assignment, cootie catcher, reveal the picture photo, hunting photo

My objective: Wh-questions in past and present

Institutional objective: Finish activities and content through 9

Setup: Arrange seating. Hang poster and contract. Make good-behavior grid. Write on board:

Agenda: Contract Cootie Catcher Jog Jog Jog Homework Poster Appearing Picture Round Robin? Erase & Remember?

Question words at beginning of sentences: Where? [a place: donde] Why? [the reason: por que (answer is because)] When? [time: cuando] How? [explanation: como] What? [name it: que]

Grid of Names Lupita, Luz, Raquel, Ricardo, Sharon

Time	Activity	Teacher [I]	Students [Thou]
5:00	Review agenda	Focus: wh-questions to help with dinosaur unit	Understand?
5:05	Review contracts		Review four rules
5:10	Collect homework	Positive mark for who handed it in. Ri owes me one. Sh & Ra owe 1 but next week two. Lup & Luz owe 2. To M if they didn’t	[invent an animal and favorite endangered or extinct animal]
5:15	Cootie Catcher	As each answer comes up: Point to board: who, what, where, when, how, why… Expand: what does it mean when one of those words is at the beginning of a sentence?	Play game.
5:20	BOOK: P 54 Box 1,	Cross reference with wh-chart on board before each question.	Read the box silently. Who can answer the first one? Etc.
5:25	BOOK: P 54 Exercise 7 Three why questions.	We’ll do this all together. Erase what you have. Don’t write until we agree on the answer. One at a time. How will the answers begin…	Chorale: “They died out because…”
5:40	JOG JOG JOG	Define jog. Pronounce. Stop between activities: pat your head, clap your hands, jump jump jump, touch your toes, sit sit sit.	Do actions & pronounce J in jump and jog.
5:45	BOOK: P 54 Box 2	Expand: why/because
5:50	BOOK: P 54 Exercise 8	Do this together.	Don’t write till you all agree on an answer.
6:00	BOOK: P 51 Exercise 2	Have they filled it in? Check.
6:05	Poster	One question at a time. Anyone know the answer?	Individual then chorale. Then find and paste it on the poster. Read answer.
6:20	Appearing picture	Slowly reveal extinct animals	Guess what they think it is. Name what they see.
6:30	BOOK: P 55 Exercise 9a	Send them one by one to choose animal from poster. Explain exercise. Review meanings of question words on board. Model first one.	Write questions quietly.
6:45	BOOK: P 55 Exercise 9b	Have them write names of their classmates in the first column.	One kid comes up with me and asks first question. Raise your hand if you know the answer. Rotate somehow.
7:00	Erase board?	The question words	Have them write them in their notebooks.
	Round Robin	Lupita’s game. Get her to explain. Videotape it.	Use animals.
****	HOMEWORK	Hand it out and explain. Hand out contracts at end to two who missed it. Give dinosaur pic to 2 missing Ss	Ss who missed contracts: fill out and sign. Paste one in book and return other to me.

HOMEWORK FOR FEBRUARY 25: QUESTIONS IN THE PAST

Answer these six questions. Be sure to write complete sentences. Example:

Why did you come to Mexico?
I came to Mexico because I wanted to meet new people.

Where did you go on your last vacation?

When did you go?

Why did you go there?

What did you do there?

How long did you stay?

Who did you go with?