The Foot book

Hop on Pop and the Foot Book

                   Name: Regina Devers      Date: ____________     Age/grade: Kindergarten
                    Subject:Reading/Math   # Students:__23__          #IEP Students: __1__
                    Major Content: Rhyming Words      Unit Title: Dr. Seuss/author study

Objectives:
The student will listen to Hop On Pop and The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss and then the student will show their ability to measure various items within the classroom by using a self-constructed replica of their foot with 100% participation.
Connections:
Kentucky’s Learning Goals and Expectations
(Goal 1):
Students are able to use basic communication and mathematics skills for purposes and situations they will encounter throughout their lives.
(Expectation 1.11)
Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
Program of Studies:
(Reading 1.2) Content/Process
Student will read material that rhymes, is predictable, and has high frequency words.
Core Content for Assessment:
Reading skills enable students to comprehend all types of reading materials.
RD-E-x.0.1
Use word recognition strategies (e.g., phonetic principles, context clues, structural analysis) to determine pronunciations and meanings of words in passages.
Kentucky’s Learning Goals and Expectations
(Goal 2):
Students shall develop their abilities to apply core concepts and principles from mathematics, the science, the arts, the humanities, social studies, practical living studies, and vocational studies to what they will encounter throughout their lives.
(Expectation 2.10)
Students understand measurement concepts and use measurements appropriately and accurately.
Program of Studies:
(Measurement 2.10) Content/Process
Students will compare and measure length and weight of familiar objects in nonstandard (e.g. shoe lengths, rocks) and standard units (e.g., inches, pounds).
Core Content for Assessment:
MA-E-21.5
Students will describe properties of, define, give examples of, and supply to both real-world and mathematical situations: Nonstandard and standard (U>S> Customary, metric) units of measurement.
Context:
We have been studying Dr. Seuss and reading his books this week and today we are going to red two of his books, Hop on Pop and The Foot Book because we are going to do fun things with our feet today. This lesson works on opposites and on common ways to measure items. This lesson will lead into a Math graph activity tomorrow.
Adaptations/Modifications:
The environment has been changed a little because The Dr. Seuss Activity sheet that I sent home to parents ask them to let their child wear tennis shoes to school on “Theodore Thursday”. We need comfortable shoes on so that we can hop to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday.
Resources:

A brief biography of Dr. Seuss

Weekly Sheet for Dr. Seuss Activities

Books: Hop on Pop and The Foot Book

How many feet sheet (included)

Procedures:
Initiation:
Have children go to rug center to implement lesson.
New facts about Dr. Seuss: (taken from website: <http://www.seuss.org./seuss.bio.html>      (Valmont   p. 10)
1.
(Prereading Activity): Contrast Chart:
Good Feet           Bad Feet
Put this on chart paper for the whole class to view(do ahead of time) and let children give the answers to compare the two.
Read Hop on Pop and then read The Foot Book to the students and explain that we are reading both of these books to link some activities together to do with our feet and to hear a story about rhyming words from Dr. Seuss.
During reading activity):   Journal
Pause during the reading of the book and have the children to name places they would have their feet to take them if they could.
(Post reading Activity): Venn Diagram
Let the children fill in the Venn diagram with the two books that they just had read to them.
Modeling:
Make a replica of your footprint out of construction and show it to students and then show them the way to use this print to measure an item in the classroom such as a desk.
Guided Practice:
Have each of the children make their own footprints to use for this activity.
                        (Make them by tracing around their feet onto construction paper.)
Then, have the children use this to measure the length of their whole table.
Independent Practice:
Have the students to go around the room and measure items as they are listed on included sheet labeled How Many Feet?
Closure:
We read Hop On Pop and The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss today and we learned to make measurement tools to determine the lengths of certain items within our classroom. Measurement is a way to compare the size of items and the amount of space required for them within our classroom or other places. We will move on tomorrow and learn how to use graphs to measure favorite items. Does anyone have any questions about measurements? Then let me finish this lesson for today by asking a few questions.

What is measurement?

How do we measure items?

What can we measure items?

Student Assessment:
Tool:
How Many Feet? Sheet
Scoring Key for How Many Feet? Sheet
Criteria:
Student will measure five items within the classroom and document their answers on the appropriate line next to each picture on the How Many Feet Sheet.
4 Student moves around room and measure five items with the given measurement tool.
3 Student moves around the room and measures three or four items with the given
                  measurement tool.
2 Student moves around room but only measures one or two items within the classroom
                 with the given measurement tool.
1 Student moves around the room and does try to measure items with the given
                  measurement tool.
0 Student does not participate in this activity and does not move around the room to
                 try and measure any items with the given measurement tool.

Reflection/Analysis of Teaching and Learning: (Completed only if taught lesson)
Lesson Extension/Follow-up:(Completed only if taught lesson)
Bibliography:
Seuss, Dr. (1965).Hop on Pop. New York: Random, House, Inc.
Seuss, Dr. (1968). The Foot Book. New York: Random, House, Inc.
<http://www.seuss.org./seuss.bio.html>

Scoring Guide

Student will measure five items within the classroom and document their answers on the appropriate line next to each picture on the How Many Feet Sheet.
5 Student moves around room and measure five items with the given measurement tool.
4 Student moves around the room and measures three or four items with the given measurement tool.
3 Student moves around room but only measures one or two items within the classroom with the given measurement tool.
2 Student moves around the room and does try to measure items with the given measurement tool.
1 Student does not participate in this activity and does not move around the room to try and measure any items with the given measurement tool.