The Three Little Pigs

1. The Three Little Pigs Keyah Spann & Andrea James Grade: Kindergarten

2. Brain Target 1: Emotional Connection • In order to make learning more meaningful and relevant for students, we will discuss: • Why we need houses • What houses are made of • Select building materials for making a house (student’s choice)

3. Building Materials

4. Samples of students work

5. Brain Target 2: Physical Environment • Throughout the unit, we will engage student’s attention by: • Posting their work • Creating centers • blocks and shapes to make houses

6. Brain Target 3: Concept Map Our learning goals are: • Story mapping • Retelling • Making choices • Writing an opinion

7. Brain Target 3: (Continued) Introductory “Big Picture” Activity / Assessment of Prior Knowledge: • Explain Concept Map (using poster size) • Explore various building materials

8. 3 Little Pigs Predictions (various materials displayed-students choose) Original Version 3 Little Javelinas 3 Little Wolves & Big Bad Pig • Story Elements • story map • Retelling • Making Choices • story related • Writing • opinion • Culminating Activity • Build house using best material Act Out

9. Brain Target 4: Teaching Declarative/Procedural Knowledge • During and after reading each story, we will • Use graphic organizers • Use sentence starters • Use T-chart for choices / consequences

11. Make new choices on building materials • Making everyday choices • Oral retelling of these and other stories • Being able to express an opinion After reading each story and discussing the choices made by the characters, we will: Brain Target 5: Application of Knowledge

12. Brain Target 6: Evaluating Learning • Each child will be evaluated by/with: • Rubrics (immediate feedback) • Teacher observation checklist

13. Rubrics