INTEGRATED LESSON PLAN (1)

Learning areas: Numeracy

Social and Emotional Development
Objectives: Children will be able to:
1. identify different texture, specifically, smooth, rough, hairy and spiky and sort
them.
2. work together in a group and solve the question posed by the teacher with little or
no help by the teacher .
Disposition: Perseverance
Children will have opportunities to know that perseverance is not giving up when
given problems to solve and questions to answer. (P)

Materials:
Fruits (Apple, grapes, orange, lemon, rambutan, kiwi, dragonfruit,

pineapple) and plastic fruits sorted into different baskets

Laminated cards showing smooth, rough, hairy, spiky
Flip Charts
Laminated cards showing the names of the fruits displayed on the table
Picnic mat
Table

Procedures:
1. Tune-in :
1. Teacher to ask the children to sit behind the boundary line on the picnic mat.
2. Teacher is to display the real fruits on top of the table with their names displayed
beside them.
2. Main Activity:

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3.Teacher to ask the children to describe the different words on the laminated cards;
smooth, rough, hairy, spiky. (P)
Children, can you describe the various texture of the fruits? Namely smooth,
rough, hairy and spiky. Each child will have a chance. Briefly describe
the texture that you know.
4. Teacher will then identify which texture(s) is/are unfamiliar to the children.
5. Teacher will describe that texture(s) to the children.
6. Teacher to ask for examples of the various textures of the fruits. (P)
Children, after you have described the various textures, can you name me some
examples of fruits that are smooth, rough, hairy, spiky?
7. Teacher to write down their answers on a piece of flip chart with their names
beside their answer.
8. Teacher to then ask each child to take one fruit from the basket in front of them.
9. Teacher to allow the children to explore the fruits for about a minute. Remind the
children to handle the fruits with care. Once they are done exploring with their fruit,
pass to the next person.
1. Children, how do you prevent yourself from getting hurt when dealing
with the hairy and spiky fruits?
2. Children, how do you handle the fruits with care? What should you do?
10. Teacher to ask the children to sort them according to the sequence from
smooth, rough, hairy, spiky on their own without teachers guidance. (P)
11. IF the child or children is/are unable to complete the activity, go through the

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activity with them.

12. Allow the children to try again now, starting from spiky, hairy, rough and
then to smooth. (P)
13. Ask the children to take the fruits that they have with them and form groups of
4. Give them plastic fruits too.
14. Children are to sort the fruits they have into different textures. Starting from
smooth, rough, hairy, then spiky. Children will start to sort from sorting the
fruits with a smooth texture, follow by rough, hairy then spiky. (P)
15. Teacher to facilitate along the way. Give little or no help to the children.
16. Teacher is to only answer yes and no questions and give questions to help
the children.
Children, how do you know where to categorise the fruits into the different
category of smooth, rough, hairy, spiky?
3. Closure:
17. Children are to return the fruits back in an orderly manner.
18. Teacher to recap about the different texture they have learnt in the lesson and
ask about the examples of fruits that have the textures.

5 mins