1. Lesson plans Ms. Perez

2. Bell ringer: Think to your theme selected for pre-school What is the point of this lesson? Why are you teaching it? What do you hope the children will learn from your lesson? What do you WANT them to learn from your lesson?

3. Objective/learning goal The answers to those questions are considered your objectives or learning goals. Learning objective describes the expected out come of an activity Grab a book and read from page 275-278 Look over pictures on 276 and 277

4. Objectives When writing objectives or learning goals use the verbs on page 278 or verbs from blooms taxonomy http://www.teach- nology.com/worksheets/time_savers/bloom/

5. Blooms Taxonomy Different learning domains that build upon each other Verbs help categorize which learning domain you are using

6. Blooms Taxonomy

7. State your objective as follows The students will be able to OR TSWBAT Example: TSWBAT construct a picture of an apple TSWBAT identify the parts of an apple TSWBAT recite that the color of the apple is red

8. Why objectives? Goals and purpose Can identify what you want them to learn

9. The rest of the class period is yours to work on your lesson plans Remember to BEG, BORROW, and STEAL ideas from the internet or books.

10. TOTD Read the scenario are identify possible objectives: Today at Tiny Tigers Pre-school the students dressed up as pizza parlor workers. They created pizza’s, talked about the ingredients used, if they were healthy or not, and where pizza came from. The students worked with each other and the teachers.

11. Bell ringer: What makes a good pre-school lesson plan? What needs to be included?

12. Article read Each group read their article and write down the three main points of the article You will share these Then we will have lesson plan work time.

13. TOTD What is the strongest part of YOUR lesson plan

14. Bell ringer Why do we use transitions in pre-school?

15. Transitions Read whole article on http://www.brighthub.com/education/early- childhood/articles/35804.aspx Create examples of the types of transitions based on groups Group A: 1-3, Group B: 4-7, Group C: 8-10

16. While finishing lesson plans today Take another look at your transitions, re-write them if you can improve them Print off lesson plans when you are finished E-mail websites used to aperez@usd116.org before class is over.aperez@usd116.org