The Ant and The Grasshopper

I. Objectives
1. Cognitive- Describe the characters of the short story.
2. Affective- Integrate the moral lesson of the story in real life.
3. Psychomotor- Create a role play about the story.
II. Subject Matter
a. Title of the book- Aesop’s Fables
b. Author- Merna G. Rico Lopez & Sharon P. Quinoa pp. 55-58
c. Materials- Manila paper, pentouch, pictures, scotch tape, white cartolina,
balloons
III. Procedure

Teacher’s activity
A. Motive Question

1. Why do you think we need to

stock food when there’s a
typhoon coming or calamity?
Answer: Ma’am We need to stock food to be
able to survive from the typhoon or calamity.

B. Motivation
Acting: The teacher will show three (3) picture
of animals. The pupils will demonstrate how the
animal move.
1. Monkey
2. Snake
3. Fish

C. Unlocking Difficulties
Describe the picture in the balloon.
Direction: The teacher will call 2 pupils to pop up
the balloon and let the students describe the
picture.

First picture: summer

Second picture: winter

A. Pre- reading
Questions:
1. From the story that reymart
read, who among the two
characters is the
hardworking? The Ant or
the Grasshopper?
2. What did the Grasshopper
 do while the ant is working?
3. When winter came what
happened to the
Grasshopper?
4. What did the ant do to help
the Grasshopper?
5. What do you think is the
moral lesson of the story?

B. Post Reading (refer to the

reading selection)
The pupils will read the short story about “The
Ant and The Grasshopper”

Questions
1. From the story that reymart read, who
among the two characters is the
hardworking? The Ant or the
Grasshopper?
2. What did the Grasshopper do while the
ant is working?
3. When winter came what happened to
the Grasshopper?
4. What did the ant do to help the
Grasshopper?
5. What do you think is the moral lesson of
the story?
Answers:
1. Ma’am, the ant is the hardworking.
2. Ma’am, the Grasshopper is playing
around.
3. Ma’am, the Grasshopper doesn’t have
food for the winter so the Grasshopper
was starving.
4. Ma’am, the ant invite the Grasshopper
inside it’s house and feed the
Grasshopper.
5. Ma’am, before we play around we need
to work first so that we have food
during problematic situation and we can
also help others.

IV. Generalization
The short story is all about the hardworking ant
and the goofy grasshopper. The ant is always
worrying about the winter that’s Why the ant is
working hard to stock food, while the
grasshopper is busy making music and playing
around.The grasshopper forgot that winter is
coming.

V. Valuing
1. Working hard will always be a
blessing in disguise.
2. Playing around won’t Feed us,
manage your time and work
hard.
3. Helping others won’t Make us a
saint, but will make us a good
person.

VI. Evaluation
okay class, for your activity. I will group you into
three groups and then you will create a roleplay.
Pick your favorite part of the story and make a
role play. Understand class?

VII. Assignment
Class, as for your assignment. Make a Slogan
about the story.
Okay class?
Dismissed

Group members
Ricamara, Myla
Pacinos, Alyssa
Pajares, Leila
Paglinawan, Justin