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Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name: Hanna Zernich Lesson Title: Animals Dance

Date: 3/27/2022 Grade Level: Kindergarten Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):

Physical Well-Being and Motor Development

Standard 1: Motor Development
Standard Statement a: Develops competency in a variety of locomotor skills and non-locomotor skills.

Cognitive Development
Standard 1. Memory
Standard Statement a: Remembers and uses information in a variety of ways.

Mathematics
Standard 2: Number Relationships and Operations
Standard b: Develops understanding of sorting.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: To pre-assess the student’s knowledge on animal’s and the sounds/movements animals make the teacher will do a
basic observation based on the teacher receives when showing the class different picture of animals and having the students shout out what animal is pictured.
The teacher will also aske the students to share what sound that animal makes and if any student would like to explain verbally the types of movements that
animal makes. Based on response time, accuracy, and how many students respond to each animal card will give the teacher an idea on the student’s current
knowledge on this topic.

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

Two- Three Assessed
Instructional Objective(s): The
student will be able to...
The student will be able to
remember and use information in
a variety of ways by remembering
the animal, sounds and
movements that previous students
have chosen to do in the animal’s
dance.
The student will be able to
understand sorting when sorting
the animals that the students
choose in the animal’s dance and
placing those animals into different
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?) - Animals
- Sounds
In this lesson the teacher will take a video recording of the - Movements
students during the animal’s dance activity as data. The - Dance
video recording that the teacher makes is for the teacher’s - Memory
own personal use. This recording will allow for the teacher - Sort
to look back on the students during this lesson to show how
the students have met the lesson’s objectives and skills
during the animals dance activity. Procedural steps:
1. To begin this lesson the teacher will explain that
they will be learning about different animals
today and the different sounds and movements
they make. The teacher will ask the students to
name off some animals that they know.
2. Next the teacher will begin by reading the book,

groups based on a certain
characteristic.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
The student will be able to develop
competency in a variety of
locomotor skills and non-
locomotor skills by pretending to
be animals and doing the
movements that animals do.
Safety Considerations:
- The teacher will need to
make sure that the
students have space to
move around and do their
movements.
- The teachers also need to
make sure the students
are doing dance
movements appropriately.
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Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
For this lesson, the teacher will aggregate or compile
evidence into a class or group view by completing a Word
document. In the Word document the teacher will write
down a student’s name and next to the student’s name
write 3-4 sentences explaining how that student meet the
objectives and skills for this lesson. The teacher will do this
for all of the students in the class. The teacher will use the
video recording and what he/she observed from the video
to explain how the students have or have not met the
lesson’s objectives and skills. After the teacher is done with
the class complied notes, she will highlight the name of the
student(s) that did not meet the expected objectives and
skills for this lesson and write another 2-3 sentences
explaining how that teacher will go about helping that
student met this lesson’s expected skills and objectives.
Modifications:
When it comes to this lesson the teacher can modify this
lesson for students that might have a physical disability by
having that student just share with the rest of the class
verbally a movement that the rest of the students should
do for that animal’s dance movement. When it comes to
the other student’s animal movements that student can try
do the movements in the animal dance with body parts
that they can move (for example, for a student that is in a
wheelchair might only be able to do the hand movements
that involve moving their arms and skip the dance
movements that involve using the feet and legs). For
students with verbal problem that are unable to make the
animal sounds can find videos/audio recordings of the
different animal sounds to play when going through of the
different animals sounds/movements with the rest of the
class.
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The View at the Zoo by Kathleen Long Bostrom.
3. After the book the teacher will have students
share things that they observed from this book
and to share what sounds and movements they
think the animals in the book make and do.
4. Following the book, the teacher will then play
the video, Animals for Kids to Learn- 100
Animals for Kids, Toddlers, Babies in English.
This video shows realize clips of animals and
the sounds they make.
5. After the video the teacher will ask students if
they have anything that they learned or saw in
the video that they would like to share with the
rest of the class.
6. Now that the students have gained more
information about different animals and the
movements and sounds, they make the teacher
will transition to telling the students about the
activity that they will be doing today. The
teacher will explain that today they will be doing
the animals dance. For the animals dance each
student will think of an animal and the sounds
and movements they make. Then the teacher
will call on one student. That student will say the
name of their animal. That student will then do a
movement that that animal does and make the
sound the animal makes while doing the
movement. (Example, student says the animal
frog, so that student might do a frog jump and
the sound “ribbit”). Once that student is done the
teacher will call on the next student. This time
this student not only has to come up with
another animal and do the sound and movement
of that animal, but they also must do the sounds
and movements of the animals of the previous
students (For example, second student chooses
the animal horse. The student would first have
to say, “frog” then jump and say “ribbit”. Then
the student goes to say “horse” and do a
movement to represent a horse and make a
horse sound like “Naahhh”). All the rest of the
students will continue this process until
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everyone in the class as had a chance to

contribute to the animal’s dance chain. The last
student to go will have it the hardest trying to
remember all of the animals, dance movements
and sounds that all the students previous had
come up with.
7. After the animal’s dance is complete the teacher
will bring the class back together as a whole.
The teacher will ask the students if they would
like to share any observations they might have
from this activity. Students might share of
different movements that they could have done
8. Lastly, before ending the lesson the teacher will
ask the students different ways, they could sort
the different animals that they students came up
with in the activity today (for example, animals
with different number of legs, animals with or
without fur, etc.). This will help students start
thinking about all the different ways they can
sort things.
9. Before ending the lesson the teacher will ask the
students if they have any closing questions or
remarks about this lesson before moving on.

Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on

materials.)

- The View at the Zoo book by Katheen Long

Bostrom.
- Animals for Kids to Learn- 100 Animals for Kids
video

Adult Roles:
- The role the teacher/adult takes on for this lesson is
providing the information about animals, reading the
book, turning on the video and asking students
questions.
- The teacher/adult also takes on the role of making
sure that the students are aware of their
surroundings so that when they do their animal
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movements, they don’t run into anything or do any

movements that could result in an injury.
- Lastly, in this lesson the teacher/adult is in charge of
recording the students during the animal’s dance to
use to reflect on when seeing if the students met this
lesson’s objectives and standards.

Resources & References:

Bostorm, K.L. (2015, April 1). The view at the zoo. WorthyKids.

Kiddopedia. (2018, March 26). Animals for kids to learn- 100 animals for kids, toddlers and babies in English. [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9JJyfnbY6g

Ohio Department of Education. (2022). Early learning and development standards Review 2021-2022: Cognitive development.
https://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Ohios-Kindergarten-Through-Grade-3-
Learning-and-D/Cognitive-Development-Draft.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US

Ohio Department of Education. (2022). Early learning and development standards Review 2021-2022: Mathematics.
https://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Ohios-Kindergarten-Through-Grade-3-
Learning-and-D/Mathematics-Draft.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US

Ohio Department of Education. (2022). Early learning and development standards Review 2021-2022: Physical well-being and motor
development. https://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Ohios-Kindergarten-
Through-Grade-3-Learning-and-D/Physical-Well-Being-and-Motor-Development-Draft.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US