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Name: Emma Maschari Lesson Title: Showing Emotions Through

Dancing to Different Guided Songs
Date: Grade Level: preschool Circle one: ECE
3/21/23
PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): 1. Domain- Social and Emotional Development, Strand- Self, Topic-
Awareness and Expression of Emotion, STANDARD STATEMENT Show awareness of own emotion
and use nonverbal and/or verbal ways to express complex emotions such as pride, embarrassment, shame, and
guilt.

2. Domain- Physical Well-Being and Motor Development, Strand- Motor Development, Topic- Large
Muscle: Balance and Coordination, STANDARD STATEMENT Use a variety of non-locomotor body
movements (hands in the air, turn around, stand on one foot, etc.) during play.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Listening to music regularly in class.

Instructional Objectives Assessment of Student Learning Experience

(2-3) Learning

Two- Three Assessed Identify Evidence: (What will Academic Language:

Instructional you collect or record as data to
Objective(s): The student demonstrate students have Emotion, movement, dance, genre
will be able to... met your objective(s) and
skill?) Procedural steps:
- The children will be
able to express - I will chart on the songs 1. Teachers will gather all
their own emotions that the children dance children on the carpet.
and feelings more to compared to 2. Teacher will play the first
through dancing to other songs. video that contains music and
different songs. - Check if the children dancing.
- The children will be dance along with the 3. Teacher will observe and
able to move their music or stay still. record how the children react
bodies with the - Check to see if students through their dancing and
music and feel will dance like their movements.
themselves doing classmates. 4. Teacher will play the first song
it. until the end.
- The children will be 5. Teacher will change the song
able to make the Program Monitoring: (How to genre number two.
choice to follow the will you aggregate or compile 6. Teacher will play this song
video of someone your evidence into a class or until it’s over. Also, recording
dancing and group view?) and documenting the
singing, or dance children’s dancing and
how they wish. - Use the evidence I movements.
found while playing 7. The results of this activity will
music that was charted help teachers decide what
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Developmental Skill:
- Self-expression
- Sharing feelings
Safety Considerations:
Music being too loud,
bumping or running into
another child, and
bumping or running into
materials in the
classroom.
Resources & References:
Birth Through Kindergarten Entry – Learning and Development Standards
Ohio Early Learning Standards
Early Childhood Education
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and send it out to their music to play for the children.
parents.
- Music will be played Authentic Materials: (Describe
throughout the month to authentic real life, hands-on
see if dancing changes materials.)
throughout.
- With evidence, teachers CD player/tablet, speaker
will know what music to
play and when to play it.
Adult Roles:
Differentiation:
- Changing the music through
- The children could listen the lesson
to one genre of music - Making sure the music is loud
instead of multiple. enough
- The children could be - Making sure all children are
placed in different areas safe
(outside, inside, sitting - Recording evidence
down, standing up)
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Reflection:

Emma Maschari

Professor Madison

EDT 317

30 April 2023

Final Lesson Plan Reflection

When writing this lesson plan, without implementing it first, it was originally intended for

early toddlers, but I quickly changed that when I remembered that the Skyriders classroom

has a morning meeting every Monday, while I am in the classroom. During this morning

meeting time, Miss. Katie will do tasks such as change jobs, talk about the day and let the

song selector pick the song to dance to. I always remembered seeing how some of the

students would be interested in certain songs and others not so much. This is what led me to

thinking that implementing this lesson in the classroom would be a great idea.

When I felt as though there were enough students in the classroom, I think there ended

up being seven or eight there at the time, I asked them to gather with me on the carpet. The

students were very eager to get there and listen to what was to be talked about during

morning meeting. I grabbed the iPad and asked the song selector to come and pick an

interactive dancing video from a YouTube playlist The Bombeck Center uses. I hung up the

iPad so all students could see the dance moves in the video. Quicky all the students and I

were doing the moves showed on it and dancing to the music.

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The students loved that myself and the other UD student in the classroom, Nicole, were

participating with them. The first song and video played got everyone very excited and the

excitement stayed until the very end of the first song. I personally loved that they were all so

excited because that showed me that they were excited for me to “teach” them and calmed

my nerves a lot when starting. There was only one student through the first song that wasn’t

too into it, I think he was tired.

After the first song, they were so excited, they convinced me to play another interactive

song for all of us to dance along with. So, the song selector came and picked another video

off the YouTube playlist. This song started off a little slower so mot as many students were

interested as in the beginning of the song. As a few moments passed, students began to

realize that this one is just as fun, or in a student’s words, “this is my most favorite one.” After

listening to all the joy dancing to these videos brought to the students made me very happy

and pleased when picking this lesson over the other three, but also when implementing.

Overall, I am very pleased with how my lesson plan implementation went. It went

according to plan without any issues or injuries. If I was able to teach this lesson over again, I

would probably just choose the songs out for the lesson instead of letting the song selector

pick them all out. I learned that young kids love to move and it’s great to keep them watching

something like the iPad because that is what keeps there attention.
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