VTFT Intern Name: Issa

Subject of Lesson: Science, English

Topic of Lesson: Baby animals
Grade Level of Students: Kindergarten
Time/Length of Lesson: 10-15 minutes
Date Taught: 5/26/22
VTFT LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
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In this lesson… students will learn the names of baby animals, while also
Overview practicing pronunciation.

Standards of (English) K.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts.
(Science) K.7 The student will investigate and understand that plants and
Learning animals have basic needs and life processes.
What are infant animals referred to as? How do we pronounce the various
names of baby animals?
Essential Questions

Students will be able to… identify various baby animals and correctly
pronounce the names.
Objectives

I can identify different baby animals and be able to correctly pronounce and
Learning Target name said animals.
Necessary Prior Knowledge of basic, everyday animals–ducks, lions, birds
Knowledge
Paper and writing utensil for notes if wanted
Materials
Warm up: Discussion
1. Ask the class their favorite baby animals!
2. Sound out the name of these animals that students chose–examples could be a
panda (“pah-an-da!”), puppy (“puh-pee!”)
Introduction/Hook 3. Introduce the lesson – ‘Today, class, we are going to learn the names of
different baby animals!”

Presentation: big lesson!

- Students will listen attentively
- Teacher will ask the students what an animal is–students are asked to
answer
Instructional - On the next slide, the answer is shown
- Essentially, a guessing game
Activities & - After the lesson, the teacher will read a book on baby animals– Animal
Strategies Babies by Harry Mcnaught
 Students will discuss what new animals they learned, and how to say these
Closure Activity names–”Class, what do we call a baby ___?”

Key Vocabulary or Pronunciation, knowledge of animals

Concepts
Next class, students will be asked to write what they have learned from the
Assessments presentation.
Students are allowed to ask for an individual reading to them, or help
individually pronounce some words.
Accommodations

Kindergarten books on baby animals (Animal Babies by Harry Mcnaught)

Resources
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