Creating a Grade One Unit

Larissa Morgan

Creating a Grade One Unit

• There are different things I looked at when creating a unit.

• Before deciding the topic I need to think about the goals for my students and the

competencies we need to work on.

• Based on the goals and competencies the students need to work on choose a theme or topic that students how interest in. Perhaps even choose the theme or topic together.

• Apply the topic to different subject areas when building lessons. These lessons should capture

the interests and learning abilities of each student.

• Plan assessments with student involvement

where each student’s goals will be improved on.

Creating a Grade One Unit:Goals and Competencies

Goals:- Where are my students

academically? - Where do I want them to be?

Competencies:- Which competencies should we work

on in order to reach those goals?

Creating a Grade One Unit:Goals and Competencies

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

My Class Goals:

Note: I taught Language Arts, Mathematics and Art

- Practicing descriptive words- Read and listen to books- Start making sentences

- Sharing ideas and opinions with class mates

- Practice problem solving- Graphing

- Working in groups

Creating a Grade One Unit:Goals and Competencies

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

Competencies:- Which competencies should we work on in order to

reach those goals?Note: Different competencies will be used depending on the

lesson. However, these are the general competencies we will be working on for the unit.

Language Arts:Competency 1: To read and listen to literary, popular and

information- based texts. Competency 2: To write self-expressive, narrative and

information-based texts. Competency 4: To use language to communicate and learn.

Mathematics:Competency 1: To solve a situational problem related to

mathematics.Competency 2: To reason using mathematical concepts and

processes.

Cross- Curricular Competencies: Competency 8: To cooperate with others

Creating a Grade One Unit:Theme or Topic

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

- At the time of our unit it was reading month in our school. I thought it would a fun idea to

pick an author or series of books and go with that theme for one or two weeks. A series of books would also be a great choice because most of my objectives were Language Arts

objectives.

- I asked the students to think of their favorite books and authors.

- As a class we came to the decision that we wanted Piggy and Elephant to be our theme.

- The students worked it out among themselves and were all very excited about the idea (they

love Piggy and Elephant!)

- PIGGY AND ELEPHANT IT IS!!!

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant UnitMathematics

• Goals: • Problem Solving and Addition and

Subtraction

• Example of a lesson: • Piggy and Elephant problem solving on the

smart board as a class, in groups, and alone

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant UnitMathematics

Goals: • Graphing

• Example of a lesson: Graphing Activity

- My favorite Piggie and elephant book is….- Have the kids vote on which Piggie and Elephant book

they liked best from what we read in class- Draw the graph on the board and have the kids make

their own graph- With the class discuss:

Which is the most popular?How many votes in all?

How many votes for these two books all together?How many more votes does one book have?

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant UnitArt

• Making Piggy and Elephant puppets so the children can use them for language arts.

• Half of the class gets piggy and the other half gets elephant

• Use brown lunch bags• Cut out faces and glue them

• Decorate belly with works, coloring etc• Use puppets for story time and making our

own stories

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

Language Arts

• Goal: Reading and listening to books

• Example of a lesson:Everyday we read one Elephant and Piggy book. We would then discuss it and do an

activity. Students would also at times go with a partner and read one together.

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant UnitLanguage Arts

• Goal: Descriptive words

• Example of lesson:- Students come up with words that describe

Piggie and Elephant. Students will get either Piggie or elephant. They will work in

groups and after we will come together as a class to share our ideas.

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

Language Arts

• Goal: Making Sentences

• Example of a lesson:

- Students create 4- 10 sentences about Piggy and Elephant. These sentences are a discussion between Piggy and Elephant as in the books. Students will be working in

groups of two. One of the students is Piggy and the other is Elephant. After they

finished their sentences they practice reading it with their puppets and when

everyone is done they will present it in front of the class in the form on a puppet show!

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

An example of a story.

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

Students practicing together.

Creating a Grade One Unit: Apply Theme or Topic to Subjects

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

The Puppet show

Creating a Grade One Unit: Assessment

My Piggy and Elephant Unit

Through out this unit on-going assessment had been going on. I saw how student were working

whether alone or in groups or as a class. I was able to see were

students were at academically through out this unit. Some students were able to write

sentences and others needed help from myself or peers. Other

students could solve and make their own problems while other

needed extra help or extra support from objects. I was able to acknowledge this through out

different lessons.