Lesson Plan

Student Teacher’s Name: Loretta Campbell

Grade Level, Course Title: Kindergarten, Theme/Writing
Mentor Teacher’s Name, School Name: Julie Sieben
Date: September 20, 2018

Lesson Topic Title: Identifying Letters in Our Names/Counting Letters in Our Name
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Learning Goals: ➢ Content Objective:      
Observable, Students will be able to identify the amount of numbers in
measurable, DOK, their name and the location that their name goes on the graph.
Aligned to standard(s) ➢ Academic Language Objective:      
Students will be able to count the letters in their name and
share with the class where their name goes on our graph.
Standards: Mathematics
1. Number and Operations
Standard:​​ Understand the relationship between quantities and whole
numbers up to 31.
Benchmark:​​ Recognize that a number can be used to represent how many
objects are in a set or to represent the position of an object in a sequence
Pre-Assessment Data: ➢ During math, students have been introduced to counting objects
What do students using one-to-one correspondence including the number of days in
already know? the month and the number of days they have been in school

Types of Assessments: A. Informal:

Formative/Summative a. Students will be assessed on their counting ability during the
Informal/Formal large group time, while we graph each name based on the
number of letters in their name.
Differentiation: Students who struggle with behaviors are placed close to the front of the
Supporting student carpet in order to monitor attentiveness.
needs by content, Students who may not understand one-to-one correspondence can be
process, product paired with students that do, allowing for peer modeling and peer support.
Management: Transitions: Following Mrs. Sieben’s Sonday lesson, I will sing with the students “My
Expectations, eyes are watching, my ears are listening, voices quiet, bodies calm. This is how we
Transitions listen, this is how we listen at group time.”
When the students are finished with the activity, they will follow our classroom
routine by moving to the carpet prior to recess.
Expectations: Raise your hand when you have something important to say, listen to
each other, sit on bottom and walk quietly back to their tables and the carpet.
Plan to Motivate ➢ Each student is excited about their own name and most are able to
Learning: recognize their name.
Building interest in the ➢ Reading ​Chrysanthemum
lesson
➢ Each student will be in charge of counting their own letters in their name
and writing their name on their notecard.
Instructional 1. Following Mrs. Sieben’s Sonday lesson, I will sing with the students ​“My
Plan/Sequence (step eyes are watching, my ears are listening, voices quiet, bodies calm. This is
by step) how we listen, this is how we listen at group time.”
2. Wait for all students to be attentive.
3. Sit facing the children in the rocking chair, holding the book ​A My Name is
Alice. ​ Once students have settled down, ​“I have 7 letters in my first name.
Let’s count them together.” O ​ n chart paper, have Loretta written, count the
letters one at a time. ​“Today, I want to share with you a very special book
about a very special mouse. Her name is Chrysanthemum and her name,
just like your name, is very special and made up of very special letters. Let’s
count the letters in her name.”
4. Read the story with the students, discussing parts of the story with the
students.
5. “​We each have a name and our names are made up of letters too.
Sometimes, we have lots of letters in our name, sometimes we have very
few. I want us each to take a moment and, using these notecards, we are
going to write our names and then count our letters in our name, just like
we did with my name at the beginning.” ​Show students, again, how to
write their name and then how to count their letters of their name.
6. “Now, friends, we are going to graph our names by how many letters we
have in our names. Does anyone know what a graph tells us?” H ​ ow many
names have a certain number of letters.
7. “We are now going to go through and put our notecards in the right spots,
let’s start with friends that have four letters in their name, ​Stop and discuss
each students name and count the letters together as a class.​ now five
letters, six, ect.”
8. Discuss the results of the graph with the students.
9. “Now, it is almost time for recess, can you show Mrs. Sieben that we are
ready for recess?”
Description of ➢ The book ​Chrysanthemum ​by Kevin Henkes
Materials Needed: ➢ Each student’s name written on the bottom of a notecard
➢ Pencils for each student
➢ Graph prepared on chart paper
➢ LORETTA written on smaller chart paper to count