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The Bunny Trail of Events This lesson covers Florida’s Sunshine State Standard for Language Arts in the category of Reading.Reading/Standard 2: LA.A.2.1.1: The students determines the main idea or essential message from text and identifies supporting information. * becomes familiar with the sequence of a story * anticipates, remembers and describes a sequence of events Performance Indicator Students listen to the story and then retell the story through the use of pictures and story masks. The student’s attention to detail and story sequence is an important factor. Assessment After reading "How Rabbit Lost His Tail", the students drew pictures of different events in the story. Working in teams, the boys and girls had to put their pictures in sequential order and than retell the story using character masks and their drawings. "Hare" are the bunny facts This lesson covers Florida’s Sunshine State Standard for Language Arts in the category of Writing. Writing Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively. LA.B.1.1.2 Standard 2: The student writes to communicate ideas and information effectively. LA.B.2.1.3 Performance Indicator students write expressing ideas clearly, showing an awareness of the topic, having supportive detail, and using common words effectively. Assessment We read some rabbit and hare facts at the web site : and then wrote paragraphs that described what we had learned. After writing our paragraphs we had to draw a rabbit and a hare paying attention to the differences of each. Project 3: Show us the bunny....vocabulary! This lesson covers Florida’s Sunshine State Standard of Language Arts in the category of reading. Reading The student uses the reading process effectively. LA.A.1.1.3 Performance Indicator The student develops vocabulary through a variety of ways. (Music, finger plays, matching games, centers) Assessment After learning about rabbits and hares we made a word wall of all of the bunny terminology we could think of. As we learned new words, we would add them to the list. We made matching games and placed them in centers for the boys and girls to practice and learn with. We also developed online quizzes. The boys and girls had to be able to consistently match up the correct definitions to the proper words. Project 4: Bunny Brunch This lesson covers Florida’s Sunshine State Standard of Listening, Viewing, and Speaking. Listening, Viewing, and Speaking LA.C.1.1.4 The students use listening strategies effectively. Performance Indicator The students will retell specific details of information heard, including, sequence of events. Assessment We watched a video called The Carrot Highway and then discussed what we learned about bunny food, specifically carrots. Each child was responsible for providing at least one fact about carrots that was different from what anyone else had said. Project 5: A Bunny Tale This lesson covers Florida’s Sunshine State Standard of Listening, Viewing, and Speaking. Listening, Viewing, and Speaking The students use speaking strategies effectively. Performance Indicator the students speak clearly, ask questions to seek answers and further explanation of other people’s ideas, and speak effectively in a classroom with others. Assessment At the end of our unit we reread How Rabbit Lost His Tail and reviewed what the elements of a story are. We participated in "Build a story" and created our own bunny tale. Each child was responsible for dictating one sentence into our story that made sense and correlated with the rest of the story. |