Summary:  My students will take a tour of the school and meet the people that they will come in contact with each day.

Status:  revised

Grade Level:  Kindergarten

Time Frame:  The first day of school, taking most of the day with follow-up for the first few weeks during opening exercises. 

Discipline:  Lower Elementary

Subject:  Social Studies

                Language Arts

Course Title:  Catch me if you can!

Topics:  school helpers

              Occupations and tools used by them.

Print Materials Needed:

    Poem – “George, the Gingerbread Man”    

    Book -   The  Gingerbread Man

     song        

     chart

Calendar: 

First day of school with follow-up for 2 days

Resources:

           Snack

           Cork gingerbread men

           Gingerbread man

           Bag of items that occupations use

           Sandpaper gingerbread cut-out

           Cinnamon sticks

Internet Resources Links:

           www.perpetualpreschool.com

Notes:

State Standards:

Social Studies -   Geography

7.                Demonstrate familiarity with the layout of his or her school.

Social Studies – Economics

      1.  match occupations with simple descriptions of work.

Language Arts – Reading

5.                use pictures, illustrations, and personal  knowledge to make and confirm predictions about stories.

6.                Connect information found in stories to personal experience.

Language Arts – Writing

1.                  use pictures and words to tell a story.

10.                use the writing process to generate         

           stories about personal             

           experiences.

Language Arts – Speaking

2.                use words to describe and name

           numbers,  colors, size, shape,

           location,  people, places, things

           and actions.

Understandings:  Performing to your optimum level is done best by feeling you are in a safe environment and having a positive personal relationship with the people you are working with.

Essential Questions:  How does feeling safe affect your performance?

How does having a positive relationship with the people you are involved with affect your performance?

Knowledge and Skills:

      The students will demonstrate an understanding of the people that work in their school and the tools they use to do their jobs. 

Evidence: 

         Chart  made by students

         PowerPoint

          Observation of students

           Test

Learning Activities:

      Day 1 –   To work on identifying colors students will talk about what color the gingerbread man is on Mrs. Madison’s desk.  We will then read the poem “George, The Gingerbread Man” to identify colors.  Students will then trace and cut out their own gingerbread man of their favorite color.

     After recess students will notice that the gingerbread man is missing from my desk. We will then go and look for him, introducing them to the people they will see in our school .  At that time we  will also take pictures of the people we  meet.  As we visit the office, the secretary  will tell us she hasn’t seen the gingerbread man but he has left them a present.  We take a picture of her and move on to the library, repeating the same process until we get to the CEO’s office where we find the gingerbread man.  In the library  we find a book, in the kitchen we find our afternoon snack, from the PE teacher we find something we need to take to PE the first day, from the janitor we find a note asking to clean up our mess, from the music teacher we find a chart of a song we can learn.   We will make a book of the people we  meet.

      After we arrive back in the room we will view the Powerpoint and see if we can identify the people in our school. 

      In the afternoon we will read the story of  The Gingerbread Man that we found in the library and do the sheets to recall characters and sequence.

     Afternoon snack will be  the snack that was found in the kitchen.

      Students will make a gingerbread  man using a sandpaper cut-out they will rub a cinnamon stick over it to create the smell of gingerbread.