RUNNING HEAD: FINAL PROJECT: LESSON PLAN

Final Project: Lesson Plan

Meghan Arellano
College of Southern Nevada

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My lesson is called Hokey Pokey with Shapes (Harren, 2016). A lesson created for a
kindergarten classroom, I will be teaching children shapes using the song Hokey Pokey. I will
cut out shapes, circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and ovals out of paper (felt can be used as
well). The children will be seated on the floor and a group of these shapes will be laid out in
front of them. I will begin to sing the song and instead of saying a body part, I will sing out a
shape. Children at this age have a lot more energy than other grades and need to have different
ways of learning, not just worksheets or handouts. According to Dunn and Dunn, Children enter
kindergarten as kinesthetic and tactual learners, moving and touching everything as they learn
(Dunn & Dunn, 1978). Along with the music, I will be using direct instruction with this lesson.
At the beginning of the lesson, I will review the shapes that we have learned and introduce a few
that we havent. I will then instruct how the game is played for the children. Using this
instruction method I will arouse student interest (Slavin, 2009) [and] [allow] students to
practice their new knowledge or skills (Slavin, 2009).

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Lesson plan
I. Describe the class: There are 28 to 30 students. Grade: Kindergarten. There are 3 learning
disabled students, 2 gifted students and 2 second language learners.
II. Subject/Skill: Math/Music Skill: Learning the names of shapes.
III. Objective(s): Kindergartners will be able to recognize shapes using music and movement
when the song tells them the shape with 70% accuracy.
IV. Procedures: Direction Instruction
1. Teacher will state the objective of the lesson which is learning about shapes and their names.
2. Teacher will go over some shapes that the class has learned before (ie: square, circle, triangle).
3. Teacher will go over new shapes that the class hasnt learned before (oval, rectangle).
4. Teacher will go over the song Hokey Pokey to remind the students how the song goes.
5. Teacher will explain the game by splitting up the class into two groups, keeping the ELL
students together.
6. Teacher will model to the students how the game is played.
V. Materials: White board, different colored cut out shapes, marker, instrument (optional).
VI. Grouping Structures: In the classroom, the children will be separated into three groups of 8
to 10. Each group will come up one at a time and play the game.

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VII. Modifications: During my song, I will be singing the lyric twice, the first time I will sing
slow so that the children will have time to hear the shape I want them to find, giving the learning
disabled children time to find the shape. I will sing faster the second time so that the children
have the time to dance and wave around their shape. I will pair up the second language learner
with a student who knows both English and the ELL students language. I will make put one
gifted student in each group and once the students know how to play the game, I will assign the
gifted student to call out the shapes.
VIII. Assessment: Student will keep their shapes and go over them by writing down the names
on the shapes and bringing them back the next day.

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Reference
Dunn, R. S. and Dunn, K. J., Teaching Secondary Students Through Their Individual Learning
Styles. Prentice Hall. 1978.
Haren, D. (2016). View A Plan. Retrieved April 27, 2016, from
http://lessonplanspage.com/mathmusichokeypokeyshapesideapk-htm-2/
Slavin, R. E. (2009). Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice (11th ed.). New Jersey:
Pearson.