Lesson Plan
The Yummy Bear Family
This lesson on "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" involves porridge tasting, storytelling, and lots of fun. After reading, your students will practice simple counting and sequencing skills.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able understand simple stories and sort series of objects.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Distribute small cups of oatmeal and spoons to your students. Allow them to eat while you introduce the lesson.
- Hold up the Porridge concept card. Explain that porridge is another name for oatmeal.
- Ask students how the oatmeal tastes.
- After hearing their answers, tell them that you're going to be narrating a story about three bears who love to eat porridge.
- Tell them, "The bears live in a cottage." Hold up the Cottage concept card. Show them the image on the back. Explain that a cottage is a small house.
- Tell them, "The bears' cottage is in a forest." Hold up the Forest concept card. Show them the image on the back. Explain that a forest is a place with a lot of trees and bushes.
Beginning
- Provide definitions and vocabulary words in student home language (L1).
Intermediate
- Allow students an opportunity to share if they have ever tried porridge before, seen something similar to a cottage or been to a forest. Provide additional images or objects to support understanding.