Key: Head Start Early

Learning Framework s
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Lesson Plan Template

Name: Shelby Paro
Focus Area: Storytelling
Title of Lesson: Apple Names

Date: 4/23/15
Grade Level: Head Start
Total Time: 30 minutes

I. Objectives:
The children will enhance their fine motor skills by tracing the letters of their
name on each individual apple.
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The children will build book appreciation by engaging in a storytelling

experience of An Apple A Day By Melvin Berger.
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Domain: Mathematics Knowledge and Skills

Element: Patterns

The children will develop knowledge of the alphabet by tracing and

recognizing the letters in their name.
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Domain: Language Development

Element: Expressive Language

The children will develop knowledge of patterns by creating a pattern of their

red, yellow, and green apples.
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Domain: Literacy and Knowledge

Element: Book Appreciation

The children will enhance their expressive language ability by identifying and
communicating the red, yellow, and green apples from the book.
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Domain: Physical Development and Health

Element: Fine Motor Skills

Domain: Literacy and Knowledge

Element: Alphabet Knowledge

The children will develop number concepts by counting the number of apples
in each apple name in the class.
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Domain: Mathematic Knowledge and Skills

Element: Number Concepts and Quantities

II. Materials:
1 big book An Apple A Day By: Melvin Berger
String
Markers
Tape/Glue
Two Little Apples Poem with words and visuals
5 Red apple cutouts
5 Green Apple Cutouts
5 Yellow Apple Cutouts

*Number of apple cutouts depending on class size; make sure the apple cutouts
have tracing lines for letters in each childs name.

III. Procedure:
A. Motivation
1. I will enter circle time with a big book An Apple A Day By Melvin
Berger in hopes the big book grabs attention.
2. I will say the poem Two Little Apples the first time, and have the
children participate the second time.
3. I will read the book An Apple A Day By Melvin Berger.
B. Steps
1. I will ask probing questions during the book; What are the different colors
an apple can be? and How many apples are on this page?
2. I will hand out the apples with letters according to each childs name.
3. I will hand out on marker to each child.
4. The children will trace each letter on their apples and put them in order to
make their name.
5. I will pass out one really long piece of string.
6. I will assist the children in taping the long string to the back of each plate
to make a vertical or horizontal line.
IV. Conclusion:
We will recite the Two Little Apples poem.

V. Transition:
Each child will roll (carefully) like an apple off a tree to the next activity.

VI. Follow-Up Activities/Learning Centers:

1. Display the words and visuals to the poem Two Little Apples for the children
to follow and say along to.
2. Plant small apple trees and watch them grow apples.
3. Hang the names on a big paper apple tree to make a friend tree.
VII. Evaluation/Assessment:
1. Did the children enhance their fine motor skills by tracing the letters of
their name on each individual apple?
2. Did the children build book appreciation by engaging in a storytelling
experience of An Apple A Day By Melvin Berger?
3. Did the children enhance their expressive language ability by identifying
and communicating the red, yellow, and green apples from the book?

4. Did the children develop knowledge of patterns by creating a pattern of

their red, yellow, and green apples?
5. Did the children develop knowledge of the alphabet by tracing and
recognizing the letters in their name?
6. Did the children develop number concepts by counting the number of
apples in each apple name in the class?

Self-Reflection Assessment:
What did the children most enjoy?
What did the children least enjoy?
If I implemented this lesson again, what would I do differently?
VIII. Early Learning Standards Met:
Domain/Element: Physical Development and Health/Fine Motor Skills
Domain/Element: Literacy and Knowledge/Book Appreciation
Domain/Element: Language Development/Expressive Language
Domain/Element: Literacy and Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge
Domain/Element: Mathematic Knowledge and Skills/Number Concepts and
Quantities

Supplemental Materials:
Two Little Apples:
Way up high, in an apple tree (point up)
Two little apples looking down at me (two fists up in the air)
So I shook that tree as hard as I could (two fists shake trunk)
Down fell the apples (fists fall to ground)
Mmmmm! were they good! (rub tummy)