Language Arts Lesson Plan - Reading
The Little Red Hen

Date: 3rd May 2012

Subject: Language Arts - Reading

Objectives: at the end of the lesson students should be able to:

• identify characters in the story
• based on the story, use critical thinking to give an individual opinion of how they think the story would end

Previous Knowledge: Students should know that the characters in a story may be people or animals

Materials: Video of The Little Red Hen (Starfall.com: I'm Reading)
 http://www.starfall.com/n/folk-tales/little-red-hen/load.htm?f
                Laptop
               Projector

Introduction: Show video of the Little Red Hen

Procedure: Students listen to the story. The video is stopped just before it ends and each student is asked who the characters are and also to give their opinions of what the little red hen would or should do.

Conclusion: The final clip of the video is shown. Based on that clip identify which students would have done what the little red hen did and who did something different.

We Succeeded!!!!

On Day One, teachers were given the "...unction to function..." in this technological era. For some of us, the information was already familiar; but for others, it was a totally new experience. We were puzzled and challenged by some of the ICT tools introduced to us.

We were exposed to using spreadsheets to record our grades. Later in the day, we all became film makers as we applied skills taught to create movies using Windows Live Movie Maker. Following on the heels of that, we became bloggers as we were set into groups to create blogs. Since this is our first post, at the close of Day Two, says a lot...we encountered problems since none of the members of this group blogged before. After a night robbed of some sleep as we tried to figure it out, we returned determined to complete our assignment without the help of the facilitators, although they were ready to give us more assistance. 

After much deliberations and trial and error, we were successful. As teachers, we felt a bit of the frustration students are faced with when they are challenged to complete given tasks.