Lesson Plan Day 1 July 10th

Introduction to Shapes

Topic: Recognize and draw shapes Grade Level:2nd grade Name: Stephanie Valentin

Lesson Type: New materials Performance Level: on Group Size: None

Standard: Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or
a given number of equal faces.1 Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

Objective: Student will be able to accurately recognize and draw shapes such as triangles,
quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes 4 out of 5 times during camp during the lesson.

Assessment plan: Invite students to draw a triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon and a cube one
shape at a time and write one thing they learned about each shape on the poster paper next to the
shape itself. Make sure all the students are given different shapes in random order. So, no two
students will draw the same shape at the same time. Students will circle a smiley, confused, or a
frown face at the end of the day.

Key vocabulary terms and definitions:

Triangle: Has 3 straight sides

Quadrilateral: Has 4 sides

Pentagon: Has 5 sides

Hexagon: Has 6 sides and angles

Cube: Has 6 equal, square-shaped sides

Materials: straws, tape, poster paper, crayons, shape book

Differentiation/Accommodations:

Support: Have support teacher sit next to the student who needs more help or is being disruptive to
the whole class.

Management Decisions
 Behavioral Expectations:
Students will raise their hand
when they want to ask or
answer a question or talk.
Transitions from place to Fast Finishers:
place or between
Have students draw on a separate
activities:
piece of paper what they like to do in
Brain break as needed the summer or places they like to visit.

Attention Signal (Regain Material Management: Grouping:

Student Focus) “1, 2, 3, eyes on
Teachers will pass out all None
me…1, 2, eyes on you”
needed materials.

Lesson Sequence

Time What the teacher is doing What the students are doing

5 Gain Attention/Activate prior knowledge: Students will explore

min the shape book
 Anna will be taking pictures and will a support teacher.

 Samantha will be observing the students and taking notes.

 Show students shape book

20 Input & Modeling: Students will repeat

min the name of the
Teacher will say triangle and point to a triangle on the board and the
shape after the
teacher will ask students to repeat the word “triangle”. Then the
teacher.
teacher will say a triangle is (Give a friendly child definition). Then the
teacher will use the word triangle in a sentence. Then engage the Students will say
student actively with the word: Finish the idea/Choices/Question. definitions of each
Example: A shape that has three sides is......(triangle). If someone draw shape
this shape what kind of shape would you say this is? (triangle)
Students will raise
((Do the same thing for all the shapes)) [Children can write the their hands to
definitions in their notebook if they have one] answer questions.

10 Guided practice: Students will raise

min their hands to
Teacher will use tapes and straws, and, in a table, both the teacher and
answer questions.
the student will work together to make a desirable shape. Teacher will
first have one student tell us how many sides the shape has, and Students will come
another student will put it together. up to help make
 ((Do the same thing for all the shapes)) shapes on table with
teachers.

20 Independent practice: Student will draw

min their shapes on
Each student will receive a poster paper and they will decide if they
poster.
want to paint or color inside of each of the shapes that the teacher is
going to tell them to draw on their poster. Circle, rectangle, square and Student will ask the
triangle. Make sure all the students are giving different shapes in teacher for a
random order. So, no two students will draw the same shape at the different shape when
same time. they are done with
one.

5 Closure/Summary: Students will raise

min their hand and share.
Ask students what new shapes they learned about today. Have
students share what their favorite shapes are.

Items to be collected as a result of this lesson: Students individual poster paper to keep until the next
lesson.