Name: Sara Hofner and Maggie Engels Lesson Title: Nocturnal Animal

Yoga

Date: 2/7/17 Grade Level: preschool Circle one:

ECE
PKSN

Standard(s)/Guideline(s):
Use non-locomotor skills with control, balance and coordination during active play (e.g., bending, stretching
and twisting).

Express individuality, life experiences, and what they know and are able to do through a variety of media.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: The teachers will use the t-chart that the students completed
during the introductory lesson to help determine the students current knowledge about nocturnal animals

Instructional Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Objectives (1-2)

One/Two Assessed
Instructional Identify Evidence: (What will you Academic Language:
Objective(s): The collect or record as data to Nocturnal, Yoga
student will be able demonstrate students have met
to... your objective(s) and skill?)
Procedural steps:
1. Move their body The teachers will use our own
into a yoga pose observations to record which 1. Using the t-chart from the previous
and hold the pose students were able to successfully lesson, re-introduce the idea of
for several seconds do the poses and which ones were nocturnal animals.
2. Create a night 2.
not. To decide which children were Read the book, Lights Out, Nights
scene using black successful, we will determine how Out By William Boniface
construction paper
and cutouts of a well each child was able to move
3. Discuss the main ideas of the book
moon, stars, and their body to create the pose and reiterate the idea of what it
different nocturnal modeled by us by watching them means to be a nocturnal animal.
animals. as they attempt the poses. 4. Break students into groups of two.
One group of students will be doing
Nocturnal Animal Yoga while the
Program Monitoring: (How will other group will be creating night
you aggregate or compile your scenes using nocturnal animals.
evidence into a class or group After each activity is complete, the
One Assessed
view?) students will switch groups.
Developmental
Nocturnal Animal Yoga
Skill:
We will create a checklist of 1. The teacher will show the students
students who were able to the Nocturnal Animal Yoga poster
Physical
successfully follow the teacher and and explain that they will be posing
development-large
do each pose and students who like different nocturnal animals.
motor skills 2. The teacher will demonstrate each
were not successful in doing the
nocturnal animal pose and the
poses.
students will mimic the poses.
3. After the students have gone
Another checklist will be create to
Safety through all 5 nocturnal animal
record which students were able to
Considerations: poses, the teacher will ask the
accurately create a night scene by
students to choose an animal from
following a model using
The teacher will the t-chart used in the introductory
construction paper and paper
make sure all lesson and create their own yoga
cutouts.
students have pose based on the animal they
enough room to do chose.
the poses correctly Night Scene Craft
1. The teacher will remind the students
that some animals are awake at
night and they are called nocturnal.
2. The teacher will show the students
an example of a night scene created
out of construction paper and
cutouts of different nocturnal
animals
3. The teacher will explain that the
students will be creating their own
night scene including the nocturnal
animals they have learned about
4. The teacher will mention important
parts of the animals in each picture
so the children recognize the unique
parts of each animal. For example,
Bats have wings so that they can fly
around at night and search for food.
Owls have special feathers on their
wings to help them fly without
making sound
5. The students will glue cutouts of a
moon, starts, and nocturnal animals
to a black sheet of construction
paper to create a nocturnal animal
night scene.
6. The teacher will have the students
explain the scenes they created
once they are complete

Authentic Materials: (Describe

authentic real life, hands-on
materials.)
NIghts Out, Lights Out By William
Boniface, pictures of animal poses,
construction paper and cutouts of
moon, stars and animals

Adult Roles:
Model nocturnal animal yoga poses
 Assist students in creating their
night scenes

Resources & References:

http://www.kidsyogastories.com/nocturnal-animals-yoga/

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)

Many students in the class seemed to enjoy the yoga and stayed engaged during the activity. This taught me that the students like the chance to
use their large motor skills, and I will try to incorporate this in my future lessons. If I were to do this lesson again in the future, I would include more
yoga poses. It only took a few minutes to get through the five yoga poses, and the students began to lose interest after going through each pose
twice while we waited for the other group to finish. In addition, when having the students create their own pose, I would give each student a
specific animal to pose like instead of having them choose their own animal which may have been too open ended and challenging for them.
Although the students enjoyed creating the night scenes with construction paper, if I were to do this lesson again, I would not do both of these
activities at the same time. The two activities took different amounts of time, which made it hard to coordinate timing with the two groups. Using
this information, in future lessons we will allow the students to go to centers, as they normally, and call small groups of students over to our activity
instead of creating another activity for one group to do while the other group is completing the lesson activity.