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LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: KINDERGARTEN Time: Monday & Tuesday Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Date: Term 2, week 3
The students have been made aware of the concept of
Learning Area: English Kindness from Term One (beginning of the year) in
regards to creating, developing and understanding
both the classroom and playground rules necessary to
keeping everyone safe.
7. Two students are selected for the table top Kindness activity and the
rest of the students are free to play in the other learning centres
around the classroom until their name has been called.
During the mat session, if the students become off topic or distracted, the
educator is to implement the behaviour management strategy of “are your
eyes watching (pointing to eyes), are your ears listening (pointing to ears), are
you voices quiet and are your bodies still.
9:30am
Bucket Filler Activity
Sheet
Lesson Development:
1. Two students at a time are called up to the table top activity to
Bucket Filler
complete their activity.
Behaviour Template
9:30am The students are chosen based on their level of concentration within
their play scenarios.
Scissors
Glue
2. The Kindness Posters are shown to the students to re-direct their
focus towards the activity at hand.
Coloured Pencils
Both the educator and students are to read the cards out loud. Invite
questioning and scaffold answers.
Lead Pencil for name
3. Now, remember from the mat session, the bucket filler that I showed
writing
you? You are now going to do an activity that is very similar, but on a
piece of paper.
4. Instruct the students to retrieve one pair of scissors and one glue stick
from the available buckets located in front of them and then sit down
at the desks.
5. Next, they are to cut out the bucket filler and bucket dipper vocabulary
list and place them in front of them on the desk.
The students are to organise their vocabulary word list in front of
them, into positives and negatives. The educator can use the
following prompts to scaffold discussion:
o Is saying kind words to others a good or bad thing?
o Is hitting or pushing others a good or bad thing?
o Where do you think this one goes?
Once finished instruct the students to put their scissors back in the bucket.
6. Once the students have sorted out their Kindness words, instruct the
students to glue the words onto their Bucket Filler Activity page
provided by the educator (ensure the students names are on each
page).
As recess takes place at 10:30am if some students have not completed the
activity they will do so after recess.
Lesson Closure:
At the closure of the table top activity, invite the students to share their
thoughts and feelings on the positive and negatives of School Kindness in
relation to their activity sheet. Questioning
The educator must scaffold answers and invite questioning from all students
participating in the table top activity.
The closure of the lesson is completed when the students are completing the
activity as the classroom is very play based.
Assessment:
The students are observed during their play and this is recorded in two ways:
1. The students are recorded in a simple rubric with the headings Checklist
“Objective One and Two”.
2. Anecdotal notes to assist the educator in identifying whether the Anecdotal Notes
adjectives are met.
Assessment focuses on the students’ enjoyment of the learning process
rather than a product as the activity is mostly child led as they are the ones
choosing the appropriate behaviours which in turn makes the activity open
ended.