TIME: 20-30 minute lesson
INTRODUCTORY/PREPARATION/ANTICIPATORY SET:
Lesson Overview: Through a game, students will work on vocabulary and incorporate sounds and movement to investigate animals.
Task Focus: Teacher makes a sound of animal and acts the animal out. Teacher asks the children if they know the name of the animal and can say it in French.
ACTIVITY:
Lesson presentation: The teacher tells the students that they are not students anymore, but have become an animal. The teacher gives each student a paper with the name of an animal. The classroom then becomes a Zoo, where the animals have lost their partners.
Students sit on the floor and form a big circle (in the class or outside). One at a time, a student reads the name of his or her animal, then goes in the middle of the circle and mimes the movements of the animal while making the sounds of the animal. When the partner recognizes his friend, he comes to join him in the center of the circle, also making the gestures and the sounds of his animal.
Guided Practice: Students observe and listen to the teacher who shows them how they can express themselves to do the animal. They can move all their whole body, stand up or stay on the floor.
Independent Practice: Students come inside the circle and mime their animal. They have to switch place with their partner.
Lesson Procedures:
The teacher reviews the French names of the animals with the students.
The teacher tells them a story to create the context: You are not students anymore. You have become animals and you live in a zoo. But you lost your friend and the way to find him is to mime your animal and make the sound of the animal. When your friend understands he is the same animal as you, he must join you in the middle of the circle. Everybody, let’s form a circle now.
The teacher gives teach student a paper with the name of an animal in French. Students have to read the paper.
The game starts. The first student comes to mime in the middle of the circle.
After his friend comes to join him, they can return to their spot and the next student takes a turn.
GRADE
LEVEL EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS/BENCHMARKS:
Louisiana Arts Content Standards/Benchmarks – Dance:
D-CE-E2: Explore and demonstrate basic movements and the elements of
dance (space, time, and energy), (1, 2)
D-CE-E3: Recognize and explore dance as a way to create and communicate
ideas and feelings (1, 4)
D-CE-E5: Execute improvised and set movements patterns with concentration
and focus individually and in groups (1, 4, 5)
D-CE-E6: Identify relationships among dance, others arts, disciplines
outside the arts, (1,4)
TEACHER'S REFLECTION:
The students loved learning French animals through movements. It was a little difficult at first because they needed to remember the name written in French but they got better as the activity went on.
At first, their movements were fast but they started again and it was better. It is better to be outside to do this game because children need space: they need to feel comfortable to express themselves.
The students had fun during this lesson and they remembered the content of this unit well.
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