Lesson Plans
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Unit: |
Community Helpers |
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Title: |
Mail Carrier |
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Center: |
Art Center |
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Center Rotation: |
Week 3 |
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Grade Level: |
Kindergarten |
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Standards: |
Communication/Language Arts Standards:
Listening and Viewing Indicator 1 Standard 1 follow various one and
two-step directions. Fine Arts 1 students will recognize various media and material, which
may be used in Artwork. |
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Objectives: |
The students will listen to directions to make a paper bag mail
carrier. The students will construct
a mail truck using geometric shapes. |
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Activities: |
The students will color and cut out a mail carrier puppet. Glue the
puppet onto a brown lunch bag. Mail truck: The students will
create a mail truck using geometric shapes. |
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Materials Needed: |
Puppet pattern for mail carrier, colors, scissors, glue, lunch bags,
various geometric shapes. |
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Assessment: |
Assessment will be done at completion of projects. |
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Resources: |
More Paper Bag Puppet Book by DeAtna M, Williams http:// comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~rstewart/ k2001/Themes/community/helpers.htm. |
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Extensions: |
Put on a puppet show. Color mail carrier pictures. Make a mailbag using 2 pieces of construction paper. Punch holes around the edges and let
children lace them with yarn. Cut the
yarn long enough to have some left to make a shoulder strap. Write “U.S. Mail” on one side and _____’s
Mail Bag on the other side. Sing: Mail Carrier Song (Tune My Bonnie lies Over the Ocean” I get to sort the mail, Then carry it to your home. The mail comes from all over,
Like New York, Paris and
Rome. Mail, Mail, Mail, Mail, I love to deliver the mail,
mail mail. Mail, mail, mail, mail I love to deliver the mail. |
