Lesson Plan

Teacher: Jennifer Guthrie

Cooperating Teacher: Mrs. Kelly

Grade: Kindergarten

Unit/Subject: Art/Writing/Computer

Lesson Title/Focus: Exploring Paint Program – Making Thankful Cards

Date Taught: May

School District: Lake Washington

Academic Standards:

RF.K1a – Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

RF.K1b – Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

RF.K1c – Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

L.K.2a – Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.

Learning Target: The learning target is to have kids get familiar with how to use the “Paint” program in Windows. The students are going to learning to draw/paint a picture using the tools from the “Paint” program. The students will also be learning how to make a text box and type sentences inside.

Vocabulary Words: Text Box

Management of Students: We will be doing this project when we have parent helper and TA available to help ensure that children get the extra supervision/help needed.

Anticipatory Set/Activating prior knowledge: I will be briefly be discussing other painting projects and typing projects we have done and how we get to have fun combining both into one Thankful Project we are going to send home. I will be discussing the other projects to help alleviate any nervousness about using a new technology program and show them they already know many of the basics we will be using on the program.

Closure: When time is up for the lesson the students will save their work to continue finishing on the next lesson day. I will briefly discuss the goals we are learning to use the paint program and the fun opportunity we have to use are minds to create “I am Thankful” cards for our family/special friend.

Steps of Lesson:

• ·      Children will listen as I explain the opportunity we have to bless our family/special friend and show them we are thankful by making them a card using a fun new program called “Paint.”
• ·      I will already have the “Paint” program open with an example of what the students will be doing and will explain the overall concepts of the “Paint” program, demonstrating in a new window the tools and how to use them.
• ·      The children’s tablets will have paint downloaded and I will ask them to open the program.
• ·      I will guide the children through the steps and we will together open a text box and type in thankful.
• ·      I will ask for computers to be turned around to show me that each child has typed in the word “thankful”, discussing the use of proper grammar and capitalization, along with word order.
• ·      I will have TA/Parent going around room to help insure that children are in the right area and have completed the task.
• ·      I will give children time to explore the tools and begin creating their “I am thankful” cards.
• ·      I will rotate around class answering questions and helping children try and trouble shoot their own problems.
• ·      I will wrap up the lesson by observing that children saved their new material and closed out of the Paint program.
• ·      I will discuss learning a new program and the tools we used.

Student Learning Behavior: I expect to see children excited about learning a new program and ready to apply technology they already are familiar with together in a whole new way, while enjoying and being proud of their creativity and newly acquired skills.

Instructional materials, Resources, and Technology: "Paint" will be displayed and instructions given through use of SmartBoard,  students will use program "Paint" through Windows on their personal tablets.