New Sunrise Preschool A Teacher's Guide Unit 1

12 Warm up Select pictures of houses from different resources (magazines, newspapers, Internet) to show students some different types of houses. Make a display on the board with them under the title Houses . Point to the doors and say: This is a door . Repeat with the windows and the roof of the houses. Application Display students’ work. Allow students to walk around the classroom admiring their classmates’ work. Encourage them to name the parts of the house they just decorated by saying: This is my house; This is the door; This is the roof; This is the window . Then, play the song This Is My House again and have volunteers come to the front of the class and sing it along while showing their decorated houses. Key • house • This is my house. Extended • roof • door • window Vocabulary and Expressions • Illustrations of different types of houses • Pictures of students’ houses • Art supplies Materials Psychomotor • Uses different school supplies appropriately. • Mimics and memorizes body sequences in games and songs. Cognitive • Understands details; considers the physical characteristics he/she sees. Affective • Receives timely and adequate help from his/her parents when carrying out his/her homework. Linguistic • Has widened and increased his/her vocabulary with new words. • Identifies the object he/she is coloring. Progress Indicators and Assessment Lesson 6 Social Studies Pictures from resources such as magazines or newspapers are useful visual aids to support young students’ understanding of new vocabulary and to help them create a relationship with reality. Another very good resource is to download free clip art from the Internet. Teaching Tip Play the songs and chants students have learned throughout the unit as they color or paint. They can benefit from this extra practice and, at the same time, develop fine motor skills. Teaching Tip Send parents a note and explain to them that their children are learning that people live in different kinds of houses. Invite parents to help their children to draw a picture of their house or the place they live in. Ask parents to write the title This is my home on top of the picture. Students should bring it into school and show it to their classmates. Home Connection Presentation Play the song This Is My House and tell students that they will learn it. Model the following movements to accompany the chant. When you say: house , put your hands together above your head simulating a roof; when you say: door , pretend you are holding a knob and move your hands as if you are opening a door; when you say: window , pretend you are looking through a window glass. You can also show them how to move their hands to represent expressions as: Come and see and For you and me . Then, play the song and encourage students to sing along and move as demonstrated. Finally, using the pictures of their own houses, have students sing the song and point to their door and window, when mentioned in the lyrics. This Is My House This is my house, Come and see. It has a door For you and me. This is my house, Come and see. It has a window For you and me. Find a version of the short story The Three Little Pigs . Read it aloud and talk about the different kinds of houses that the pigs built with students. Extra Activity Week 2 Practice Ask the class to open their books on page 12. Point to the house and say: This is a house , and invite them to repeat. Have students slowly trace the outline of the house using their index fingers. Explain to them that they can decorate the house as they wish, considering there are many kinds of houses. Remind students to make a door and windows. Provide them with a variety of materials and allow them to work individually. When they are done, play the audio and have students repeat. Then, play the audio again and have some volunteers repeat, using their books.