Name: Teegan Page Date: Every morning in Week 5

Focus or area of activity/experience:

Duration of activity: 30 minutes
Circle Time

Number of students: 8 Boys: 4

Age of students: 4 - 5 years Girls: 4

Key Teaching Standards Addressed Key Teaching Standards Alignment to My Teaching Strategies

LESSON PLAN

EYFS Objectives

T1: Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge all children Social- Emotional

Regulates own emotions and behaviors
T3: Demonstrate good knowledge of early learning and EYFS Manages feelings

Follows limits and expectations
T7: Safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and provide a safe learning
Takes care of own needs appropriately
environment Establishes and sustains positive relationships

Forms relationships with adults
Responds to emotional cues
Interacts with peers
Makes friends
Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Balances needs and rights of self and others
Solves social problems

Cognitive
Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
Attends and engages
Persists
Solves problems
Shows curiosity and motivation
Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking

Social Studies
Demonstrates knowledge about self
Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
Explores change related to familiar people or places
Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
 Prior Learning / Reason for including this session

Most of the students in this class are still new to a physical school environment. They spent a large portion of last year learning online. The students are still learning

how to follow the school rules, and know important members of our school community. They are also still learning about each other and how to interact with one

another in appropriate ways. These Circle Time sessions are like meetings, where we try to focus on academic topics and social-emotional learning behaviours.

During these morning meetings, I will outline what they will learn each day so that they understand whom they will see and what subject they will learn. We will

always address how each student is feeling to establish each individuals emotions coming into the class. We will always recap the classroom rules, to ensure that

they are safe and know the expectations at school. The students are learning about the water investigation in other sessions, so we will try incorporate this topic into

the morning discussions.

LESSON PLAN

Learning Outcomes

Students should know and understand what the expected behaviors are in school and how to effectively follow them
Students should understand the flow and routines of how their day will go (order and time)
Students should build relationships with teachers and peers
Students should practice focused skills in listening, speaking and concentrating
Students should express creative ideas and use thinking skills
Students should feel welcome, loved and accepted in the class by all (generate happiness)
Students should be exposed to nursery rhymes, songs and movements

Scaffolding: Increase Support Scaffolding: Reduce Support

Students Initials in focus: MN, JW, & JL Students Initials in focus: JS, CH, GT, DK & VY
Encourage and praise students Ask open-ended questions
Have visuals and resources to assist students in sharing ideas and feelings Assign leader roles and responsibilities
Have sensory toys and physical items to enhance experience

 Resources Needed Adult Led Teaching Input Key Vocabulary

*No specific time allocation as it depends on how long the students want to share their
Weather: How is the

Talking sticks thoughts. Talking sticks are used when students are speaking. Others need to listen. weather? It is ...
whiteboard markers 1. Greeting: Students are welcomed to the carpet. They are asked to find a letter on
Emotions: How are you? I am

...
ball the carpet and sit down with criss-cross legs. The class starts by greeting the
Vote

teacher. A ball is passed from student to student. They students can say how they
Rules
Nursery Rhyme Visuals: are feeling, and share any story they wish. They will use the circle time board and
Share
Go Bananas color coded sticks to share their feelings. Each color links to many different kinds

Gorgie Porgie of feelings someone might have. They pass the ball on by asking the next student

Alphabet Song how they are. Once the class has all had a turn, we will sing a welcome song.
LESSON PLAN

2. Rule recap: The teacher has the students what the 3 Big Rules are in the class (Be

Emotion Sticks: Kind, Be Safe and Take Care. In each big rule, the students give examples of small

Color coded sticks representing

rules that can fit inside the big rules. Example: Be Safe can have small rules inside

the zones of feelings such as washing hands after using the toilet, or walking slowly up the stairs.
Cups with emotions visuals 3. Routine & Weather: Together, using the routine board, the class will go over the

schedule and take note as to which order the day will go, and which teachers they

Weather will visit for Specials classes (art, music, P.E.). Students will observe the weather.

Weather poster chart The teacher will ask the class how the weather is. One student will be chosen to

Weather sight word board and

update the weather board. This information will help the students know if outdoor

visuals play is okay for the day.

4. Letter of the Day: Each day one student will put their hand into a mystery bag of

Letter of the Day alphabet letters. The letter that they pull out links to a set of flashcards. We have a

alphabet tiles in a bag set of flashcards that directly link to life in Hanoi. Example: J is for Jackfruit (a

Hanoi alphabet flashcards common fruit found in Vietnam. If the students take interest, the teacher can pull

up visuals on the computer to get the students starting a conversation on the topic.
Routine resources 5. Nursery rhyme: The students will vote which nursery rhyme that want to sing each

Daily schedule board day. There will be 3 options to choose from. Each week the teacher will change the

classroom rules poster options.

6. Circle time is repeated each day.

Assessment Strategies

Assessment will be done via observation in Circle Time

Any observation notes will be stored on the school's My Teaching Strategies

account
ABC assessment will be used for students struggling to self regulate
Photographic evidence taken and dated
 Evaluation of Area / Space / Activity

The space works well for the number of students. It is central with a nice amount of whiteboard space to write down any ideas, words, or drawings that can be discussed with the class. The rug

is nice and big and has fun alphabet letters and numbers on it. On the left, the pinboard is in good range to the circle time area. It has some visuals of the class rules, the routines for the days,

and some other general discussion-related posters such as days of the week, months of the year, animals, colours, and shapes. This board has an interactive activity where students can put

coloured sticks into the emotion they are feeling each day. The colour of the stick represents the 'zones' they are in. Each zone has a specific set of emotions that I child might feel each day. On

the right is our incentive board which the students thoroughly enjoy. The incentive board has sticker charts where the students are highly motivated to finish their chart to get a reward. These

sticker charts have been extremely successfully and are always in good range to the circle time area when we discuss behaviours, emotions and class rules.
LESSON PLAN

Implications for the space

Ms Van (TA) and I discussed putting CH on the corner near the tissue box as she had a runny nose this week and kept disturbing others while getting up to blow her nose. We placed a smaller bin
near the carpet as it started getting distracting for others when a student asked to get up to get tissue or water, so hopefully having these items closer makes room for better discussions.

Additional Comments / Thoughts / Ideas

This was a shorter week, as we headed toward Thanksgiving. We had additional discussions about where students were going for the break, and what they are

thankful for.