Where Are You Going?

Title: Where Are You Going?

Grade Level: K-1

Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Technology

Learner Outcomes:

The children will recognize positional words and demonstrate their meanings.

Children will participate in a choral reading.

Children will tell about a family activity.

Children will construct a map.

Children will type a sentence about a family activity and draw a picture to go with it.

Children will interpret findings from a graph.

Duration of Lesson: Three days, approximately 45 minutes each day

Materials:

• We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
• Sentence strips with positional words printed on them
• Manipulative bears
• Pictures of families doing things together
• Computers
• Paper , pencil ,and crayons
• Graph

• Word 2000
• Bailey's Book House (if available)

Teacher Notes:

• Safety and/or health factors: None
• Special requirements: Acceptable User Policy On File
• Parent, building or community resources: None

Procedures:
       Day 1:

• Teacher will read We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
• Discussion will follow on how the family got to the bear cave.
• Teacher will show sentence strips with positional words printed on them: over, under, around, on, etc...
• Children will  demonstrate to the teacher their understanding of the positional words with a set of manipulative bears:
1. Put the red bear on your table.
2. Put the blue bear  under  your chair.
3. Line your bears up in a row on your desk and put the green bear between the red bear and the blue bear.
4. Put the yellow bear over your head.
• Children will click on the icon Bailey's Book House on the computer. They will click on the clown and follow his directions to complete the positional word activity.

• Teacher will read We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
• The class will discuss the activity of the family in the story.
• Each child will share an activity that their family enjoys doing together.
• At computer time, each student will type a sentence about a favorite family activity. The student will print their sentence and draw a picture  to go with it.

      Day 3:

• Teacher will read We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
• The teacher will have a graph prepared on the board of the different avenues the family went through to reach the bear cave.

Each student will select their favorite way on the graph to travel to the bear cave. Students' names will be added to the graph.

The class will interpret the graph findings:

Which avenue was the favorite of the class?

Which avenue was the least favorite of the class?

Did any of the avenues have the same amount?

• The children will draw a map showing the way to the cave.

Modifications: The classroom aide may guide any student who needs any extra help during the lesson.
 

Enrichment Activities:

• Students will interview their parents or look through a family album and find out what a favorite family activity was when their parents were children. The student will write a sentence and draw a picture to go with the sentence.
• Students will interview the grandparents or look through a family album and find out what a favorite family activity was when their grandparents were children. The student will write a sentence and draw a picture to go the sentence.
• Students will compare family activities of  two or three generations and discuss which generation would they like to be a participant.
• Spectacled Bear Jigsaw Puzzle

Evaluation/Assessment:

• Students will have an understanding of the meanings of positional words:  on, over, under, between, through, etc....
• Students will be able to interpret  findings from a graph.
• Students will be able to type a sentence at the computer workstation and print the sentence with assistance.

• Language Arts Objectives: RLA.K.1.6
• Social Studies Objectives: SS.1.4.1, SS.1.5.2
• Math Objectives: MA.S.1
• Technology Objectives: TEC.S.2

National Standards:

• Math:

Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process
• Language Arts:

Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
• History:

Understands family life now and in the past, and family life in various places long ago

Authors:

Linda Hovey
Brenda Irby
Rachel Mease

Nichols Elementary School
3505 Erwin Road
Barboursville, WV 25504

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