Protecting Ourselves… · KG2 Integrated Learning

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: K2.1.6.1.2

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and name the basic components of a book (front cover, back cover, title, pages).
Show and explain why learners’ books are opened from right to left by demonstrating the correct way to open a book.
Predict what a book about safety will be about by looking at the front cover.
Respond to a shared reading of a book on protecting ourselves from harm, hurt, sharp objects, electricity, water and strangers.
Act out key words from the book (hurt, harm, sharp objects, strangers, electricity, water) to show understanding of the theme.

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Curriculum details

Strand: All About Me (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Protecting Ourselves From Road Accidents and Harmful Strangers (1.6)
Content standard: K2.1.6.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to be safe and identify strangers.
Indicator: K2.1.6.1.2 - Identify the basic components, show and explain why learners' books are open from right to left and respond to a shared reading of a book related to the theme. Protect ourselves from harm, hurt, sharp objects, electricity and water and strangers.
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 7 (Week 7 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. 119
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Teacher scaffold learners to identify the basic components of a book. Show the cover of the information big book on protecting ourselves from harm, hurt, sharp objects, electricity and water and strangers and have learners predict what will happen in the book
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Use the KWL strategy as you read the informational text to learners. (See Appendix 1, K2.1,2.1.2)
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Pick key words from the (BIG BOOK) as learners act it out (hurts, harms, sharp objects, strangers, electricity and water, etc.).
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Check on the K and W before you read the text and the L after reading.
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K-Ask the learners to say what they already know about the theme. W-Ask them to tell you what they want to know about the weeks' theme.
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Read the book aloud, opening the book from right to left, pausing and showing pictures to the learners.