Austin ISD Kindergarten 2015 Kindergarten Pretend and Learn Lesson Unit: Friends Pretend and Learn Theme: Latin American Cultures Implementing the Pretend and Learn Lesson in the Kindergarten Classroom Center Introduction: 1. Set up the center using materials below. 2. Print and laminate “Architects and Artists” and guide them through a discussion of style and details. 3. Use blocks to make some structures you see in the building pictures. 4. Connection: Guide students to make columns on the floor for each country and sort the art and buildings. (This activity could be repeated with other categories) 5. Discuss “What to Do” and “What Not to Do” in the center. Center Participation and Organization: Students can: 1. When students chose a country to travel to, they explore all the images in the envelope. 2. Students can act as a pilot as board the airplane and as customs agents to get their passport stamped. 3. Then students use their imaginations and blocks and art supplies to make the attractions of that country. 4. Print each country’s attractions on a different color paper to help keep them organized. Students can find all the food pictures and compare and contrast. Cover the furniture in the Pretend and Learn Center. Laminate flags and paste on medium manila envelopes; then attach them on the surfaces for each of the six Latin American countries. Laminate art photos and architecture photos and place in the envelopes. Content Area Social Studies (Corresponds with Hispanic Heritage Month) Vocabulary English and Spanish vocabulary cards are located below Materials print-outs below Categories posted as an anchor real items from countries you or students have visited World Map (optional paste flags on six countries below) Globe Passports Stamp Connections Literature: Non-fiction books on countries in your library (call number 950-994), Vejigante Masquerader by Lulu Delacre Writing: Travel Plan, Passport, Travel Journal Technology: Apps: World History Timeline, Kids on World Tour Voice recording of teacher saying greetings and phrases from the countries. Students use a recording device to say it themselves. Pictures
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Austin ISD Kindergarten 2015
Kindergarten Pretend and Learn Lesson
Unit: Friends Pretend and Learn Theme: Latin American Cultures
Implementing the Pretend and Learn Lesson in the Kindergarten Classroom
Center Introduction: 1. Set up the center using materials below. 2. Print and laminate “Architects and Artists” and guide them through a discussion of style and details. 3. Use blocks to make some structures you see in the building pictures. 4. Connection: Guide students to make columns on the floor for each country and sort the art and
buildings. (This activity could be repeated with other categories) 5. Discuss “What to Do” and “What Not to Do” in the center.
Center Participation and Organization: Students can: 1. When students chose a country to travel to, they explore all the images in the envelope. 2. Students can act as a pilot as board the airplane and as customs agents to get their passport stamped. 3. Then students use their imaginations and blocks and art supplies to make the attractions of that country. 4. Print each country’s attractions on a different color paper to help keep them organized. Students can find
all the food pictures and compare and contrast. Cover the furniture in the Pretend and Learn Center. Laminate flags and paste on medium manila envelopes; then attach them on the surfaces for each of the six Latin American countries. Laminate art photos and architecture photos and place in the envelopes.
Content Area
Social Studies (Corresponds with Hispanic Heritage Month)
Vocabulary
English and Spanish vocabulary cards are located below
Materials
print-outs below
Categories posted as an anchor
real items from countries you or students have visited
World Map (optional paste flags on six countries below)
Globe
Passports
Stamp
Connections
Literature:
Non-fiction books on countries in your library (call number 950-994),
Vejigante Masquerader by Lulu Delacre
Writing: Travel Plan, Passport, Travel Journal
Technology: Apps: World History Timeline, Kids on World Tour
Voice recording of teacher saying greetings and phrases from the countries. Students use a recording device to