Sample Lesson Plan

Grade: Two
Lesson Three: Physical Activity
Title: Spell and Go

Download: Lesson 3: Spell and Go(PDF)

Purpose:
This lesson teaches the concepts of Ability, Belonging and Caring (ABC) with a focus on Belonging and locomotion skills. It provides opportunities to reinforce and teach the following character values: cooperation, respect and patience, making good choices and supporting one another.

Curriculum Expectations
Active Participation:

• Participate on a regular basis in physical activities that maintain or improve physical fitness (games, gymnastics, dance).

Living Skills:

• Demonstrate appropriate interpersonal skills and respectful behaviour (displaying etiquette, playing fairly, co-operating) in physical activities.

Materials

• ABC Poster
• At My Best® music CD Play the Song (MP3, 6MB)
• CD player
• Appendix B: Song lyrics and actions (PDF)
• BLM: Going on a Ski Trip! (PDF)
• Set of alphabet cards (letters of the alphabet written on index cards or recycled pieces of paper)
• Beanbags (one per student) *Alternative equipment: Use crumpled up paper balls, stuffed animals or mittens.
• BLM: Family Mover (PDF)
• At My Best® Class Take-home Book (PDF).

Assessment and Evaluation

Use Appendix C - Physical Activity Lesson Assessment Rubric to determine how well the student performed the required skills.

Look for:

• Move safely in the space available.
• Ability to move without bumping into people or objects.
• Mobility in open space. Using all of the available space.
• Smooth changes in direction, pathway and type of movement
• Active and willing participation.

Self-assessment:

Using Appendix E - Self-Assessment Tool - Belonging (PDF), have students draw a picture of how they helped someone feel he or she belonged in today's lesson.

Safety:

Remind students to be aware of others and objects in room when moving in a limited space.

Activity Description

Introduction: Warm-up Activity

• Warm up with the ABC Dance, using simple actions accompanying the concepts of Ability, Belonging and Caring. Play the ABC Dance on the At My Best® music CD . See instructions and action cues in the Appendix B and ABC Poster.
• Challenge students to introduce their own actions.
• Continue warm up by pretending to go on a ski trip. See BLM: Going on a Ski Trip! (PDF).
• Talk about positive affirmations and sincerity.
• Focus on promoting interaction between all students, so they do not just high-five their friends. Challenge students to:
  • High-five five students whom they have not talked to today.
  • High-five five students who are farthest away from them.
  • High-five five students of the opposite gender.
• Debrief with students afterward. See "Guided Discovery Questions".

Skill/Concept Development

Name Spelling

• Spread the letters of the alphabet throughout the classroom.
• Within the classroom, students travel to the letters that spell their name.
• Instruct students to use a different form of locomotion (walking, skipping, walking backwards) as they travel to each new letter of their first name.
• Instruct students to do the same activity spelling their last name. But this time, they have to balance a beanbag on a body part as they move.

Application of the Concept:

• Have students work with a partner.
• As a pair, agree on a word that means friendship.
• Each pair then decides how they wish to travel to each letter (hand-in-hand, back-to-back) while balancing one beanbag together.
• Each pair travels together to spell out the word that means friendship.
• Have each pair stop at the last letter of the word and share it with the rest of the class.
• Repeat activity with students choosing a word that means health to both of them.
• Have each pair stop at the last letter of their word and share it with the rest of the class.

Extensions:

• Write out some appropriate words for friendship on index cards and pass out to students.
• Have students balance two beanbags as they move.
• Introduce different pathways (zigzag, diagonal) or directions (sideways, backwards).
• Encourage various forms of locomotion (skipping, galloping, marching).
• Increase speed of movement.
• Add a time limit.
• Have students come up with different "themes" to spell words (students could spell something healthy they ate for lunch, their favourite activity, the name of a fruit or vegetable).

Guided Discovery Questions

Curriculum Connections

• Language: Use phrases rather than just one word.
• French (or second language): Spell words in French or another language.
• Math: Put numbers on the back of the letters, flip over and have students try to solve a math problem (as a group, move to five different numbers to add up to twelve).

Link to Home

• Provide students with a copy of BLM: Going on a Ski Trip! and encourage them to do the actions at home with their family.
• Provide students with a copy of BLM: Family Mover and have students complete the activities with their family.
• As an option for the At My Best® Class Take-home Book, students can draw their favourite or most creative movement.

Download: Lesson 3: Spell and Go (PDF)