Date completed: Spring 2017

Date submitted: Spring 2017

Title of Artifact: Lesson Plan #1
Standard: Standard Eight- Instructional Strategies

I am placing my artifact, Lesson Plan #1, under Standard Eight, Instructional Strategies, as
evidence of continued mastery towards using a variety of instructional strategies to encourage
learners. In the Pre-Lesson Assignment section of this lesson plan, the children will either be
reading or listening to a book. I, as the teacher could read the book for the lesson to the class or I
included a link to YouTube that reads the book for you online. This shows how Lesson Plan #1
collaborates with Standard Eight, Instructional Strategies, and how teachers should use different
strategies to engage their students.
I. Title/Topic and Grade Level:
Celery fish scale stamping
Kindergarten

II. Lesson Essential Question:

How can we make scales on a fish when using a piece of celery stalk?

III. Standard:
With the help from teachers, the students will focus on a book while it is read to them followed
by an activity they can participate in.

IV. Objectives and Assessments:

Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to (SWBAT) apply their
knowledge about Rainbow Fishing sharing
his shiny scales with his friends so that
everyone had one scale each.
Assessments:
Teachers will be able to (TWBAT) assess
students acquired knowledge by observing the
students working on making their fish scaled
and only having one scale be shiny.

V. Materials:
- The book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
- Celery
- Knife
- Paper plates
- Paint- rainbow colors
- Paintbrushes
- Fish outline
- Glue
- Bowls
- Spoons
- Silver glitter
- Googly eyes

VI. Pre-Lesson assignments and/or prior knowledge:

The day we do our celery fish scale stamping activity, we will be reading the story The Rainbow
Fish by Marcus Pfister during circle time. In this story, a fish named Rainbow Fish has a bunch
of shiny scales on him. All of his friends want the scales but Rainbow Fish is being mean and
then none of his friends want to play with him. In the end, Rainbow Fish gives his scales to all of
his friends so that the friends and himself each have one shiny scale. The students will be making
fish scales by stamping celery onto a fish outline. We will then put glitter on one scale to be just
like Rainbow Fish! There is a read along video on YouTube that can be used instead of reading
the book aloud.
The Rainbow Fish read along YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9mryuEKkKc

VII. Lesson Beginning:

The teachers will go over the book The Rainbow Fish that was read to them during circle time.
The teachers will talk about hoe fish have scales and since it is food stamping week, we will be
making our own fish scales with celery. We will then add in one shiny scale just like Rainbow
Fish and all of his friends.

VIII. Instructional Plan:

1. Circle time- Get the children into circle time on the carpet and do the normal circle time
routine (days of the week, months of the year, weather, seasons, numbers, letters etc.) Read
the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.
2. Activity time- Have the children sit in their chair at the table.
3. Away from the children, cut the celery stalks into pieces that the can be easily help by the
children. When cutting the end of the stalk, make sure it is flat so that the children can get a
better stamp.
4. Give each child the paper cut out of the fish.
5. Different color paints should be spread out around the table.
6. The silver glitter should be in a bowl with a few spoons in it so that the children can pick a
scale to clue and then spoon out the glitter onto the glue so it doesnt get everywhere.
7. Tell the children to dip their celery stalk into the paint and then stamp it onto the inside of the
fish outline creating scales like a real fish has.
8. When the children are ready to make their shiny scale ask them which scale they want to
make shiny. Add glue to that scale and let the children spoon on some glitter.
9. Add some glue to where the eye should go and put on a googly eye.
10. Make sure their name is on their fish and they can walk it over to the drying rack in the
classroom.

IX. Conclusion:
After reading the book and doing the activity the children will know about fish scales and how
the shape of the end of the celery stalk looks like the side of a fish scale. We will also learn about
how important it is the share and be nice to our friends like Rainbow Fish was. That is why we
each have one shiny scale on our fish. When doing the activity you can assess how the children
are when sharing the paint and glitter. You can remind them if a friend isnt sharing that we
should be like Rainbow Fish and always share with the people around us.

X. Citations:
M. (n.d.). Celery Stamping Rainbow Fish Craft for Kids. Retrieved March 4, 2017, from
http://www.craftymorning.com/celery-stamping-rainbow-fish-craft-for-kids/
StorylineOnline. (2012, May 21). The Rainbow Fish read by Ernest Borgnine. Retrieved March
04, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9mryuEKkKc