Light - Day and Night · KG1 Integrated Learning

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: K1.6.8.1.2 - Use pictures and other text features to aid understanding as they listen to a read aloud informational text on sources of light.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Predict what a book about light is about by looking at the cover page and talking about the pictures.
Listen attentively and track the words as the teacher reads aloud an informational text about sources of light.
Identify the sources of light mentioned in the text and point to the matching pictures.
Group sources of light into daylight sources (sun, electricity) and nightlight sources (moon, stars, electricity, candles, lanterns).
Count the number of light sources in each group and complete simple addition and subtraction activities using light source pictures.
Draw and colour one man-made source of light and label it.

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Curriculum details

Strand: All Around Us (Strand 6)
Sub-strand: Light - Day and Night (6.8)
Content standard: K1.6.8.1 - Demonstrate understanding of the sources of light for day and night.
Indicator: K1.6.8.1.2 - Use pictures and other text features to aid understanding as they listen to a read aloud informational text on sources light.
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 9 (Week 33 of the year)
Term is the curriculum's own; the week within it is our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order. Follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Kindergarten Curriculum (KG1 and KG2), 2019, p. 90
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Have learners discuss the cover page of the Big book at the pre-reading stage. Through picture walk, have them predict the content of the text.
As you read aloud the book with the learners, point to the words to enable track the reading on sources of light. Ask questions while reading at vantage point to assist you monitor learners' understanding the content of the book.
At the post-reading stage, ask questions enable learners use pictures to retell the story. Have learners mention the sources of light read about and group them according to daylights (e.g. sun, electricity) and nightlights (moon, stars, electricity, candles, lanterns etc.). Assist learners to make sentences with the examples of sources of lights
Have learners group the examples of lights talked about and count the number in each group. Have them do addition and subtraction activities with the examples of lights. Include word problem in these activities
Have them draw and colour any example of man-made light read about label it.