Lesson Plan
     I created and implemented this lesson while in my kindergarten clinical at Frankilin Elementary. The children in this classroom were kindergartners and first graders, so this lesson would be appropriate for either grades. The children were studying about the farm and this is why I decided to do this lesson.

The Farmer's Responsibilites/Jobs



Type of Experience:  Game/Literacy/Large Group Goals/Objectives:
Farm Lesson Plan: The farmer's responsibilities or jobs (K-1)
 
 

1. Goals:
a)  Develop new vocabulary about the the farms
b) Develop an understanding of what tools farmers use.
c) Develop an understanding about what types of jobs farmers have.

2.Concepts:
a) A farmer has many jobs to do on the farm

b) A farmer can be a woman or a man

c) The jobs on the farm are done at different times of the day

d) A farmer uses certain tools to get the jobs done.

3. List materials:
 Index cards

 8 X11 pieces of paper

 Crayons

 Pencils

 Plastic sleeves for the pages of the classroom book
 

 Construction Paper

 Glue

 Cover for classroom book

 Farm Books:
  Busy Farm, Fischer Price
  Farmer Brown Sheers His Sheep, Teri Sloat
  Farming, Gail Gibbons

4. Procedure: (30-35 minutes)
Introduction to the experience

1. Use the clapping transition to get children to the large group time.

2. Eyes on me: sing “This is the way we…on the farm”

3. Ask children what they have been learning about the farm.

4. “Today we are going to look at what types of jobs farmers have to do.”

Description of the Experience:
This theme is connected to the future activities because children will hopefully study farm in higher grades. This experience may help the children make and grasp more connections about responsibilities of a farmer or the farm in general when they are in higher grades or just observing around the area they live.

1. See the Introduction to the experience

2. “We are going to look and read books that show us the jobs farmers do. (If you have something to say, what will you do?-raise hand)

3. Show children several books and read selected pages that show farmers doing their responsibilities.

4. Have children explain what the farmers are doing.

5. “What tools are they using?”

6. “Are farmer only men?”

7. Close this part of the activity by having short discussion:

8. What do farmers use to help them get their jobs done?

9. When do they do their jobs?

10. “Now each of you will be making a page to add to the classroom book about a farmer's jobs.”

11. Show children one page. Explain that they will try to read the sentence on the bottom of the page and if they need ask myself or a friend.

12. Then you will draw a picture that describes that sentence.

13. When I call your name come see me and we will give you your page.

14. When you are finished with your pages come see me because you will also have to sign the cover of the page so everyone knows who wrote the book.

15. When children are finished have them gather at the large group area by singing a song.

16. “We are going to play a game called charades. Each of you will pretend to be a farmer.

17. When it is your turn you will pick a card and read what you job you will act out for your classmates to guess.

18. “Do we speak when we are playing “charades?”

19. Pick a child and begin the game.


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