LESSON PLAN KSSR YEAR 4

Focussed Component
Date
Time
Class
Number of Pupils
Proficiency Level
Theme
Topic

Language Arts
01 August 2016
10.30 a.m. 11.30 a.m.
4
/4
Low to intermediate
World of Stories
Sandcastle

Content Standard

4.1 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to enjoy and appreciate rhymes,
poems and songs.
4.3 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to plan, organize and produce
creative works for enjoyment.

Learning Standard

4.1.2 Able to recite jazz chants and poems with correct pronunciation, rhythm and intonation.
4.3.1 Able to produce simple creative works with guidance based on:
(b) poems

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:

i. recite Sandcastle poem with correct pronunciation, rhythm and intonation in pairs.
ii. create a collage of sandcastle using materials provided based on teachers model creatively in
pairs.

Teaching Aids

Power point presentation of pictures and new vocabularies, The lyrics of the poem Sandcastle,
Power point presentations of the poem Sandcastle, A sample collage of sandcastle flower

Educational Emphases
i. Thinking skills
ii. Multiple Intelligence

Generates ideas, design

Verbal-linguistic, musical, visual-spatial

iii. Values
Moral Value
Olympic Value
Cross Curricular Element
(CCE)

Cooperation and helpfulness

Joy of effort
Creativity

Stage
Set Induction
(5 minutes)

Teaching and Learning Strategy / Activity

1. Teacher shows a picture of sandcastle and a beach using
power point presentation.
2. Teacher asks the pupils to observe the pictures carefully.
3. Pupils look at the pictures carefully.
4. Teacher asks the pupils a few questions.
Questions:
What you can see in these two pictures?
What is the relationship between these pictures?
What you can do with the sand tools in the beach?
5. Pupils provide answers for the questions.
6. Teacher introduces the topic of the day Sandcastle.

Remark
TA :

Power point presentation

(Pictures of sand tools and
beach)

EE :
i. MI: Visual-spatial, verbal-linguistics

Stage

Development:
Stage 1
(15 minutes)

Stage 2
(15 minutes)

Teaching and Learning Strategy / Activity

Remark

Activity: Lets Learn New Words.

1. Teacher introduces seven vocabularies to the pupils using
power point presentations.
Words:
Build
Bucket
Fork
Scoop
Shovel
Tumbled
dominoes
2. Pupils listen to the teacher attentively.
3. Teacher also asks questions to the pupils, related to the
pictures.
4. Pupils provide their answers for the questions.

TA:

Activity: Recite the poem Sandcastle.

1. Teacher distributes the lyrics of the poem Sandcastle to each
pupil.
2. Teacher shows power point presentation of the poem
Sandcastle.
3. Teacher asks pupils to listen to her and she recites the poem.
4. Pupils listen to the teacher.

TA:

Power point presentations

EE:
i. TS: Generate ideas
ii MI: Visual-spatial, verbal-linguistics

EE:

Lyrics of the poem Sandcastle

Power point presentation

Stage

Teaching and Learning Strategy / Activity

5. Teacher recites the poem for the second time.
6. Pupils recite after the teacher.
8. Teacher divides the pupils into pairs.
9. Teacher asks the pupils to recite the poem in pairs with correct
pronunciation, rhythm and intonation.
10. Pupils recite the poem with correct pronunciation, rhythm and
intonation.
11. Teacher gives feedback on their presentations.

Remark
i. MI: Musical
ii. TS: Generate ideas
iii. MV: Cooperation and helpfulness
iv. OV: Joy of effort

Stage 3
(20 minutes)

Activity: Create a Sandcastle Collage

1. Teacher asks the pupils to remain in the same group.
2. Teacher explains to the pupils on the next activity which is
designing a collage using materials (pictures, colour papers)
provided and shows a sample of sandcastle collage.
3. Pupils listen to the teachers instructions carefully.
4. Teacher also tells them that they can use their own creativity to
design their sandcastle collage.
5. Teacher distributes the materials to the pupils.
6. Pupils design their own sandcastle collage with partners.
6. Teacher guides them when it is necessary.

TA:

Closure
(5 minutes)

1. Teacher asks the pupils to show and talk about their collage.
2. Pupils present their work from their own place.
3. Teacher guides them when they need help.
4. Teacher provides feedbacks on pupils performances.

A sample of sandcastle collage

EE:
i. TS: Design, generate ideas
ii. MI: Visual-spatial
iii.MV: Cooperation and helpfulness
iv.OV: Joy of effort
CCE: Creativity

Stage

Teaching and Learning Strategy / Activity

Remark