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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Living Things Change through Hand Art

Topic: Illustrating that Living Things Change through Hand Art
Materials:
paper, pencil, scissors, glue
Procedure or Method of Instruction:
• Have the children choose what paper they want to use to make butterflies. It could be colored pictures from a magazine, construction paper, tissue paper, or even white paper they color themselves.
• Trace the child's handprint on the paper.
• Cut out the hand print. Use lots of cut out handprints to get a layered look.
• Glue the handprints together for each wing.
• Cut out a long oblongated shape that will form the body of the butterfly. Through the process explain that a butterfly starts from a caterpillar and sleeps in a coccon.
• Glue the wings to the caterpillar and explain how a caterpillar can be beautiful when it eventually grows its own wings through metamorphosis.
Practice Key Vocabulary words in English or the child's native language: change, butterfly, caterpillar
Accommodation: Teacher and Teacher's Aside. Lots of space is needed for children to do hand craft.
Also know the native words for butterfly and caterpillar in the child's language.
Checking Understanding:
• To help students in the concept of change.
• To help students understand that living things change.
• To emphasize that physical change is natural.
• Promote language development by knowing the native names of the words used during the activity.
• Help with fine motor skills.
• Ask open ended questions like, who what and how.
• Film clips can be helpful to contribute to the understanding of kids.
Closure: A song about the caterpillar turning into a butterfly
Butterfly, Butterfly
(to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
Butterfly, Butterfly,
Fly Away,
You were a caterpillar yesterday
Butterfly, Butterfly
You never stay,
Always flying to a new day.


Topic: How Rain is formed

Materials: To make this craft project you will need cotton balls, scissors, white paper, a background piece of paper, glue, and silver or blue ribbon
Procedure or Method of Instruction:
• Ask the children to cut a cloud shape out of the white paper using scissors and cut out many sort lengths of ribbon
• Curl the ribbon lengths using scissors
• Glue the cloud shape onto the background piece of paper and glue the curled ribbon streamers on the bottom of the cloud to appear as rain
• Next add fluffy white cotton clouds to the cloud with glue
Practice Key Vocabulary words in English or the child's native language: rain, clouds, cotton, sky, water
Accommodation:Teacher and Teacher's Aside. Lots of space is needed for children to do hand craft.
Also know the words that pertain to the happening of rain in the child's language.
Checking Understanding:
• To help the children understand about rain.
• To introduce them to the reasons why rain happen.
• To introduce to them the concept of weather change.
• To stimulate children's enthusiasm and encourage them to communicate with their classmates as well as promote language development by asking them questions.
• Tell the students stories about rain to reinforce their understanding or maybe make other projects involving the weather.
Suggested book: And Then it Rained by by Dragonwagon, Crescent or other books available at the local school library.
Closure: The song Rain, Rain Go Away

Topic: Earth is made up of Land and Water
Materials:
Paper Plate, Paint, Construction Paper, Wiggle Eyes, Glue , and Scissors
Procedure or Method of Instruction:
• Find a picture of the planet earth to use as a guide.
• Have the children use the green/brown and blue paint and make them paint the backside of the paper plate.
• After the paint is dry, have the children glue on the wiggle eyes.
• Using construction paper, have them cut out a smile and glue it in the paper plate. Hands and legs can also be added to the sides of the paper plate.
Practice Key Vocabulary words in English or the child's native language: water, land, earth
Accommodation:Teacher and Teacher's Aside. Lots of space is needed for children to do hand craft.
Checking Understanding:
• To introduce to the children the concept of the earth's composition.
• To inform them that the earth is composed of land and water.
• To increase the children's awareness regarding their surroundings and help cultivate their curiosity about the place they live in.
• The smiling face of the earth also gives them the idea that we should take care of our planet. The instructor could put in a little information about ways to take care of mother earth.
• To help with fine motor skills.
• Outdoor games can help in the interaction between the children and can aid in their language development.
Ask open-ended questions like how, what and why.
Closure: An awarding of who made the best and the happiest looking earth. The winner's work will be posted on the bulletin board.

Topic: The Sense of Smell
Materials: cupcake liners, construction paper, cotton balls, perfume, pencils, crayons, glue
Procedure or Method of Instruction:
• Have the children glue the cupcake liners to the construction paper.
• Draw stems for the liners and color them green. The children can also add leaves.
• Glue the cotton balls on the center of the cupcake liners.
• Spray the perfume on the cotton balls.
• The perfumed flowers are then done.
Practice Key Vocabulary words in English or in the child's native language: smell, perfume, flower, stem, leaves
Accommodation:Teacher and Teacher's Aside. Lots of space is needed to children to do hand craft. Also know the the counterparts of the english words used in the children's native language.
Checking Understanding:
• To introduce the children to the five senses starting with the sense of smell.
• To make the children aware of their physical processes and know the right words and terms for them.
• To help the children understand that the five senses are important in our day to day activities.
• Help with the children's fine motor skills.
• Ask open-ended question.
• Engage the children in other activities that involve the five senses. Example maybe to blindfold the kids and make them touch dry and wet things and make them differentiate from the two. Activities for tasting can also be used like again blindfolding the students and making them taste food that are familiar to them and gauge whether they can recognize them. This way language development is promoted because of the interaction that would happen.
Closure: Some riddles that are about the five senses can be used.
Examples are:
What has eyes but cannot see? Needle or potato
What has ears but cannot hear? Corn
The teacher can make her own as long as it is related to the five senses.


References

Abraham, C. (2009). Learning Foundations Curriculum. Retrieved May 21, 2010 from,
http://www.childcarelounge.com/diva/LearningFoundationssample-5Senses[1].pdf

BestKidsBooksite. (1999). Rain Clouds. Retrieved May 21, 2010 from,
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/

CanTeach. (2001). Caterpillars, Butterflies. Retrieved May 21, 2010, from
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems26.html.

Family Crafts. (2000, February 26). Earth Crafts. Retrieved May 21, 2010 from,
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/paperplatecrafts/a/ppeasrth.htm

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