Austin ISD Kindergarten 2015 Kindergarten Pretend and Learn Lesson Unit: Friends Pretend and Learn Theme: Camping Implementing the Pretend and Learn Lesson in the Kindergarten Classroom Center Introduction 1. Set up the center by using the printable materials and example pictures found below. 2. Introduce the center by brainstorming vocabulary related to going camping. The teacher might want to create an anchor chart of these words. 3. Use the CLI strategy “Statues” to have the students create a statue for each vocabulary term. 4. Discuss what happens when you go camping, what do you need to bring, what will you see, what activities will you do, what food do you eat, etc.) 5. Tour the center and model how to use the center with the help of a few students. 6. Discuss “What to Do” and “What Not to Do” in the center. Center Participation and Organization 1. Students can go fishing for sight words and write the words in their tackle box. 2. Students can match the upper and lower case letters and initial sound by putting s’mores together. 3. Students can tell stories to their friends. 4. Students can identify and describe animals that live in the forest. 5. When it is time to clean up students will put things back where the teacher had them set-up. Content Area Supported Treasures Vocabulary English and Spanish vocabulary cards are located below Materials Printables found below Parent Letter to send home at least 2 weeks before you implement this center Books related to camping and forests (see list below) Any materials related to camping (tents, campfire stories, making s’mores, animals that live in the forest, etc.) Brochures from national parks Connections Literature: the following titles will fit well with this center Martha Camps Out (Bilingual) by Karen Barss The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp by Stan Berenstain Arthur Goes to Camp by Marc Brown Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: Campfire Songs for Monsters by Kelly DiPucchio Fred and Ted Go Camping by Peter Eastman Toasting Marshmallows : Camping Poems by Kristine O'Connell George Bailey Goes Camping by Kevin Henkes Camping Trip by Christianne C Jones Acampar by Christianne C Jones Camping Day by Patricia Lakin Mi día de campamento by Marcia Leonard Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer Vamos a acampar by Kyla Steinkraus Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping by Mélanie Watt
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Austin ISD Kindergarten 2015
Kindergarten Pretend and Learn Lesson
Unit: Friends Pretend and Learn Theme: Camping
Implementing the Pretend and Learn Lesson in the Kindergarten Classroom
Center Introduction 1. Set up the center by using the printable materials and example pictures found below. 2. Introduce the center by brainstorming vocabulary related to going camping. The teacher might want to
create an anchor chart of these words. 3. Use the CLI strategy “Statues” to have the students create a statue for each vocabulary term. 4. Discuss what happens when you go camping, what do you need to bring, what will you see, what activities
will you do, what food do you eat, etc.) 5. Tour the center and model how to use the center with the help of a few students. 6. Discuss “What to Do” and “What Not to Do” in the center.
Center Participation and Organization 1. Students can go fishing for sight words and write the words in their tackle box. 2. Students can match the upper and lower case letters and initial sound by putting s’mores together. 3. Students can tell stories to their friends. 4. Students can identify and describe animals that live in the forest. 5. When it is time to clean up students will put things back where the teacher had them set-up.
Content Area Supported
Treasures
Vocabulary
English and Spanish vocabulary cards are located below
Materials
Printables found below
Parent Letter to send home at least 2 weeks before you implement this center
Books related to camping and forests (see list below)
Any materials related to camping (tents, campfire stories, making s’mores, animals that live in the forest, etc.)
Brochures from national parks
Connections
Literature: the following titles will fit well with this center
Martha Camps Out (Bilingual) by Karen Barss
The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp by Stan Berenstain
Arthur Goes to Camp by Marc Brown
Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: Campfire Songs for Monsters by Kelly DiPucchio
Fred and Ted Go Camping by Peter Eastman
Toasting Marshmallows : Camping Poems by Kristine O'Connell George
Bailey Goes Camping by Kevin Henkes
Camping Trip by Christianne C Jones
Acampar by Christianne C Jones
Camping Day by Patricia Lakin
Mi día de campamento by Marcia Leonard
Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer
Vamos a acampar by Kyla Steinkraus
Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping by Mélanie Watt
Austin ISD Kindergarten 2015
S Is for S'mores: A Camping Alphabet (Alphabet Books) by Helen Foster James Writing: Students will go fishing for sight words and write the words in their tackle box. Students will write campfire stories or poems to share with their friends. Technology: Students can use an iPad to film themselves telling their campfire story. Students can play nature songs and/or sounds using an iPod or CD player. Students can research a state or national park using Google or PebbleGo and then write a travel brochure reviewing the park of their choice. Students can Skype park rangers from various parks across the US.