Lesson Plan for Class III

Learning Outcome

The children will learn to accept their siblings, adjust/bond with them and have love and care for them in their heart. The feeling of oneness and looking after their little brother/sister should be their first priority. The habit of helping parents and grand parents with household work should be inculcated in them.

I Am Just Five

Material Required

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  Ask the children to bring their family photograph. Cut chart paper a little larger than the picture. Paste the picture in the centre of the chart paper. Let the child draw a design around the edge or do a collage with some glitter. Stick a piece of ribbon or thick thread at the back so that the photo frame can be hung.
  
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  Let the children draw on individual sheets, pictures of each of their family members and write a few sentences about each one of them. Punch the papers and tie a ribbon to make a personal album.
  
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  Tell the children to draw their own picture wearing their favourite set of clothes. This can be the first picture in the album.
  

Let’s talk about

The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.

Write Other Things

What else?
1 period

Learning Outcome

The children will know how small plants are planted. Their life cycle will be clear to them – seeds, plants, leaves, buds, flower and fruit. They will learn that when fruits are green, they are raw and when they change colour and get their original colour, they become ripe and can be eaten. They can also be told the difference between plants, shrubs, creepers and trees. They will comprehend that they should listen to their elders and cooperate with them to get a better outcome. The habit of caring, sharing, giving, taking and thanking will develop in the children. The advantages of drinking milk can also be told. They will learn the process of making ice cream.

Material Required

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  Group activity: Make ice cream with the children in the school. Any fruit can be used. Incase a wooden ice cream maker is difficult to obtain, take orange juice, put in ice trays, place two toothpicks in each cube and freeze. Ice-lollies are ready for the children to eat.
  
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  Take them to a modern ice cream factory to show how ice cream is manufactured in modern times.
  
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  Take the children to a farm and show them how a cow is milked.
  
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  Do the concept of hot/cold and solid/liquid with the children.
  
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  On a chart paper, make a pictograph with the children’s names and the different flavours of ice creams.
  

Reading
1 period

To warm up, talk of surprise gifts, surprise outings and surprise parties. Talk of all the excitement they caused and the enjoyment that was experienced.

Encourage the children to take turns to read the story. Keep explaining wherever required. Continue questioning children to know whether they can comprehend the lesson. Ask them to read the lesson for homework.

Emphasize on sharing, caring, giving, taking, helping and thanking the people who help them or do work for them.

The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.

Let’s talk about

Word Fun

Listen and tell

Write other things

What else?

1 period

Discuss the four questions here. The second is an open-ended question where the answer of all the children can be different.
A: Match the meaning and add to the dictionary. Can be given for homework.
A & B: Discuss in class, do 2 questions and give rest for homework.
Let each child talk about his/her favourite grand parent; what they like about him/her and what she/he does for them.
A: Explain that when we add ‘est’ to a word, we are talking of the finest, the greatest; we are talking in superlative degree. Explain and give for homework.
B: Clarify to the children that some words have double letters. When you break these words into syllables, they generally break at the double letter, e.g. let-ter, din-ner, pret-ty, bat-tle etc. Explain and give for homework.
C: A group of things has a particular name or collective noun. Discuss orally and give for homework.
D: Dialogues or conversation are always written in quotations. Do these in class and give a worksheet on this for homework.
E: Teach children the art of letter writing. Start with the postal address, addressing the person whom you are writing to, the body of the story to be divided into neat paragraphs and then ending. Discuss thoroughly and let them write independently in class.
F: Poetry doesn’t have to end in rhyming words. It is just your thoughts written down in free verse. Jot down your thoughts and write. Explain, give examples and do in class.
A & B: Have an alu chaat party and invite not only your class teacher but your subject teachers as well. Make cards for all.

Learning Outcome

The children should be able to comprehend what a play is, why it has plenty of characters, settings, narrator and dialogues. They will know how to learn the dialogues and deliver them with expression, zest and feelings. They will develop the sense of taking turns, attentively listening to the dialogues of others and know when it is their turn to deliver their lines. Thus they will enhance their attention span, concentration, build a rapport with their peers, learn to respect each other and let other have a turn before them.

Material Required

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  Group activity: Cut out facemasks of all the characters/animals of the play. Paint them and tie an elastic string at the back. Cut out some trees and bushes. Paint them or do leaf collage. A broken hut can also be made. Stick hay or dried grass on it to give it a grassy effect.
  
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  Make invitation cards. Conduct the play and invite the other classes, teachers and principal.
  
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  Worksheets: ‘Circle the animals who could not help the hare’, ‘A caterpillar is a baby butterfly. Draw the various stages of a butterfly’, ‘Circle the animal names with the sound they make’.
  

Reading
2 periods

Warm up time! Explain what a play is, the way it is written, dialogues, characters, settings, narrator, props etc. Take 7 children at a time. Let them play different roles. Ask them to read the play accordingly. Teach them to bring expression, zest and feelings into their lines. Take some more children to hold the trees, bushes and the hut. Let them enact the play in class.

The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.

Word Fun

Listen and talk

Write other things

What else?

1 period

Learning Outcome

The children are well versed with the names of different colours and an object that is always of that particular colour. This will enhance their chromatic sense and visual discrimination.

Material Required

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  Give large xeroxed pictures of a rose, poppy, pear, orange and clouds. Ask the children to colour them according to the colours they represent in the poem.
  
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  Group activity: Draw a large swan on a chart paper. Help the children do cotton wool collage on it.
  
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  Ask the children to draw a garden on a sheet of paper and colour the grass and flowers or let them do collage. Hang all the pictures on a string or put all on the soft board.
  

Reading
1 period

To warm up, you can bring a colourful soft ball to class. Play ‘throw and catch’ for a few minutes with all the children to help them settle faster.

Read the poem to them with expression, zest and feelings. Help them read in the same manner. Explain the gist of what the poet is trying to say. Tell them who is narrating the poem and why she is talking of only the things that always have a specific colour.

Ask the children to list out five things that are always of a particular colour.

The learning outcome of the poetry should be clear to them.

Creative activities

Learning Outcome

The children should understand that they have to work for themselves, become something or someone in life. They should not only be known by their parents name and should not only splurge on their money. Being known for your own efficiency and work gives you confidence, poise, assurance and belief in yourself. You are aware of the fact that you can do just anything.

Material Required

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  Take a sheet of glazed or marble paper and cut thin slits leaving a ½” boarder all around. Cut strips of a contrasting colour from a similar paper. Now weave with these strips to make a mat.
  
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  Group activity: Take a rectangular piece of cloth. Trace out a pattern and paint with fabric paints.
  

Reading
2 periods

Warm up by showing the children a piece of intricate weaving, a shawl or sari. Explain what a loom is and how weavers weave material with various coloured thread. Ask the children to take turns to read this lesson. At random, call out to a child to continue. This way all the children will pay attention to what is being read. Explain the story as you go along. Tell them the importance of acquiring a skill, earning for yourself and making a name for yourself in your chosen profession. When they earn, only then they learn to value money. They should have pride in whatever work they do, however big or small.

The learning outcome of the lesson should be clear to them.

Creative activities