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Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name: Kristin Shelley Lesson Title: Life Cycle Movements and Dance
Date: March 25, 2020 Grade Level: Older Toddlers (16-36) Months Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Coordinate the use of arms, hands and fingers to accomplish tasks.

Participate in active physical play and structured activities requiring spontaneous and instructed body movements.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge:

Instructional Objectives (2-3) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Two- Three Assessed
Instructional Objective(s): The
student will be able to...
Students will be able to choose a
movement to represent stages of
the Butterfly life cycle.
Students will be able to coordinate
the use of body parts to create
movements to represent the
stages of the butterfly lifecycle.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
For this lesson I will take pictures and videos of the
students preforming the tasks.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
For each student that can demonstrate the task I will take
the picture and put it on a graph.
Academic Language: Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly,
representation, movement
Procedural steps:
1. Review Previous knowledge learned about the
butterfly lifecycle.
2. Asks students to make a movement for each stage.
3. Explain to students that we are each going to get a
turn to roll the dice and the whole class will do the
movement they choose represent the stage on the
dice.
4. Students will roll the dice, and preform the
movement

One assessed developmental skill Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
is if students can make materials.)
spontaneous and instructed body
movement The butterfly life stages dice.

Safety Considerations: Adult Roles:

One safety consideration would be
to make sure students are far
enough apart from each other so
when they are moving they are not
bumping and hitting each other.

Resources & References:

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

Name: Kristin Shelley Lesson Title: Life Cycle Movements and Dance
Date: April 28, 2020 Grade Level: Pre-Kindergarten Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):

- Domain: Physical Well-Being and Motor Development. Strand: Motor Development. Topic: Physical Activity. Standard: Participate in structured and
unstructured active and physical play exhibiting strength and stamina.
- Domain: Language and Literacy Development. Strand: Reading. Topic: Letter and Word Recognition. Standard: With modeling and support recognize
and “read” words or environmental print.

- Domain: Cognition and General Knowledge. Strand: Life Science. Topic: exploration of living things. Standard: with modeling and support, demonstrate
an understanding that living things change over time (e.g., Lifecycle).
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Have students draw, or show you with pictures the life cycle of the butterfly that they learned from the Butterfly kit.

Instructional Objectives (2-3) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Two- Three Assessed
Instructional Objective(s): The
student will be able to...
Students will be able to participate
in structured physical play for
more than 5 minutes.
Students will be able to recognize
and “read” the words of the life
stages of the butterfly cycle and
do the movement associated with
the words displayed on the dice.
Students will be able to
demonstrate that things change
over time by demonstrating the
butterfly life cycle through
movements.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
I will collect data on how long the student persists at the
dice activity.
I will also take picture of the students doing the various
movements for each stage. This shows that the student
could “read” the dice and show their knowledge by
preforming the movement chosen to represent that stage.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
For each student that can demonstrate the task I will take
the picture and put it on a graph.
Academic Language: Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly,
life stages.
Procedural steps:
1. Review the four stage of the Butterfly Life Cycle.
2. One a Chart ask students what they know about
each stage. - Egg, Caterpillar, chrysalis, and
butterfly
3. Ask students what movements each of the for
stages make. Guide students to make realistic
movements, ex. move into a ball for egg, crawl or
wiggle for caterpillar, “hang” for a chrysalis, flap like
a butterfly.
4. Once movements for each stage have been made
show the dice to the students, show each stage and
go through the movement. On the side of the dice
that says “whole cycle” have students go through
the entire cycle in order.
5. Once students understand what to do for each side
of the dice, explain that we are going to play a
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game. The class needs to stand in a circle. Each

One developmental skill being student will have a chance to role the dice. The
assessed is the child’s stamina to entire class will do the movement of the stage the
persist in a task. dice lands on.
6. Once the game is finished ask the students why
Safety Considerations: when we land on “whole cycle” do we the
One safety consideration would be movements in the order egg, caterpillar, chrysalis,
to make sure students are far then butterfly.
enough apart from each other so Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
when they are moving, they are materials.)
not bumping and hitting each Stages Chart.
other. The butterfly life stages dice.

Adult Roles:

Resources & References:

Cube Template:
https://www.firstpalette.com/pdf/cube.pdf
Template for Cube faces:
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Visual of What the Dice will look like:

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