Teacher: Ms. Janet Lynn Peck

Lesson Title: Scavenger Hunt and Book Making

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Time: 2 minutes introduction
 10 minutes for Scavenger Hunt
 30 minutes for Student Participation Activity
 13 minutes for sharing the Spring Time Books
 10 minutes for closure activities
 TOTAL: 70 minutes

Grouping:  Students will be working as individuals the entire day.

Objective of Lesson:  North Carolina Standard Course of Study
 Mathematics
  Competency Goal 1: The learner will recognize, model, and write number through 10.
1.06 Use ordinals first through fifth
Competency Goal 2: The learner will explore concepts of geometry and non-standard measurement.
2.04 Model and use directional and positional words.
English Language Arts
Competency Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
2.01 Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
Competency Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
4.03 Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, and journal entries of personal experiences.
Information Skills
Competency Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
1.05 Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
Competency Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
5.01 Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically through various formats.
Arts Education: Theater Arts
Competency Goal 4: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal and formal productions.
4.03 Listen and respond to directions and side coaching in dramatic activities.

Materials:
 Instructions for each student for the Scavenger Hunt
 Ribbons hidden for each student
Cards from Day One with the Ordinals written on them
 Book cards already cut out for the books
 Crayons, scissors, glue, tape

Motivation:
 Inform the students that they will be going on a scavenger hunt today in the classroom and also making their own book about Spring Time.

Statement of Objectives:
 The students will review the ordinals by participating in the Scavenger Hunt.  The students will also be reviewing the parts of a story while they make their Spring Time Book.

Procedure:
 Instruction:
Review with the class the ordinals (first, second, third, fourth and fifth).  Hand out a
piece of paper with directions on it to each student.  Each paper will have three to five instructions jumbled up.  The students will follow these in order (reading and doing the “first” statement, then the “second” and so forth).  If students are having trouble reading, they may get another student or myself to help read it to them, but they may not help with the directions to find the object.  The objects will be different colors of ribbon hidden about the room.  Each student will be lead to a different ribbon.  These ribbons will be used in their Spring Time Book.  After each student has found their ribbon, have them sit back at their desks quietly and start making a list of things they see, hear, feel, etc during the Spring Time.

 Student Participation:
  After all the ribbons are found and everybody is seated, inform the students that they will be making a book today in class.  This book is supposed to represent spring.  They can include the animals we have been studying, the changes of weather, the way spring makes them feel, the things they hear and see, etc.  Allow time for the students to brain storm their ideas.  Pass out the spring time cards to each student (start with about five per student).  These cards are used to make the book.  They can write or draw their book.  There are extra cards incase if a student wishes to make a bigger book.  Encourage the students to draw and write in their book.  Remind them of the concepts of the beginning, middle, and end part of stories.  Allow students to have plenty of time to get the books done in class today.  After everyone has finished and picked up the supplies, allow the students to share their books with the class but don’t pick on them.  Let them volunteer themselves.  Display these books in the classroom for about a week and then the students may take them home to keep.

 Closure:
  For closure, bring the class together.  Review the ordinals, parts of stories, and directional words.  You may ask a student to place to ordinal cards in order on the board, and have another student explain the differences in the beginning, middle, and end parts of a story.  Also, you may want a few students to show their books during this time that you thought were exceptional.