Summative Assessment: Thematic Unit Planning

Title Your name Subject and Section Professor’s name Date Part 1: Unit and Lessons Outline Unit Plan Title: Looking Into the Four Seasons Using Stories and Arts Age Level: Kindergarten Academic Subject: English Language Arts (ELA) Unit Theme The concept throughout this unit is storytelling and creative and artistic interpretation of the four seasons. Children will read stories, discuss them, and make artwork related to the year's seasons. Moreover, technology and arts will be incorporated into the unit and hence help the students to exercise expression in their learning as they relate the written word to art-making in the pretext of mastering essential skills in ELA. Summary of Each Lesson Lesson 1: Spring—Bloom with Me Topic: Recounting the folklore with emphasis on the spring as part of the four seasons. Learning Objective: Students will, in detail, recount significant events of a story with illustrations in relation to the structure of the story, as well as the events of the particular story in the context of spring. Learning Activities: Initially, the students will read the “Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle (2015). Next, to represent the story's events, generate a collage, which must be called a "spring scene" with flowers and raindrops. Third, an interactive digital story app will be used to retell the sequence of the events in the story. Technology Incorporated: Use of a storytelling app where students illustrate and record the events of the story being taught. Lesson 2: Summer – Fun in the Sun Topic: Identifying and outlining the characters, the environment, and significant occurrences within a described summer story. Learning Objective: Students can narrate and explain the summer story's characters, settings, and significant occurrences through visuals via painting and writing. Learning Activities: The students shall read the book "Day at the Beach" by Booth (2018). After reading, the students shall draw a landscape that can be painted in summer and the location where the story can be set. Next, the teacher shall remind children about today's summer weather and help them compare it to the story and download a weather app where they can monitor real-time temperatures to make this contest enjoyable. Technology Incorporated: A Weather app to compare this year's temperatures with the other seasons this summer. Lesson 3: Changes During Fall and Winter—Comparing Pairs Topic: The students shall write a short essay that analyzes two fairly similar stories, one about fall and the other about winter. Learning Objective: Students will make two Christmas stories, one set in the Fall and the other in the Winter seasons. The students will also get acquainted with the problems of their heroes and outline the similarities and differences. Learning Activities: Using leaves and cotton balls, students should fashion two puppets—one associated with the fall and the other with winter. Next, several pictures that relate to fall and winter will be shown to review the distinctions between the two se...