Lesson Plan

Descriptive title for Lesson: Making a local Christmas drink, sorrel. Subject: Cookery Level: 4 years

Instructional Goal: To make the children aware of a famous local Christmas drink, sorrel and how to make it. Age Range: 4 year olds Previous Knowledge: Children should have an idea of some of the various local Christmas cuisines and dishes and they should know what sorrel is. Lesson Pre-Assessment: Have the children identify the sorrel fruit amongst other red fruits. Rationale for Teaching Strategies Selected: Active Learning: Children learn best by doing. Therefore, children are able to engage in a cookery activity to enhance their learning. This strategy would actively engage children in the learning process so they gain a better and thorough understanding of the steps involved in making a Christmas sorrel drink. Role- playing strategy was employed to enhance the childrens learning experience as they were able to pretend to be chefs as the engage in the activity. It makes the activity fun as children are able to wear aprons and chef hats in a kitchen setting. Computer-based instruction: A prezi was used to educate the children about various local Christmas cuisines as pictures are displayed so children have a visual idea of what is being taught. Scavenger Hunt: This is employed as the summative assessment where children would be assessed in a fun and exciting way. They are able to work together and move about as they search for the items.

Objectives Organized by domain: Cognitive: 90% of the 4 year-old children will be able to identify various local Christmas cuisines by making the drink sorrel. Affective: 90% of the four year-old children will display enjoyment as they participate in the cookery activity and will feel a sense of pride after working together to make the sorrel drink for themselves. Psychomotor: 90% of the four year-old children will develop their fine motor skills by peeling the sorrel strips for boiling.

Objectives (For each stage, identify when the objective is being addressed) Stages of Instruction Set Induction (Introduce the students to the objectives that will be learned. If this lesson continues from a previous lesson, how does it connect to what was taught)

Content (Describe the content knowledge and how it will be provided to students e.g., lecture, discovery learning, textbook, video) Teaching & Learning Strategies (Describe, in detail, activity(ies) that will assist students in reaching the objectives.

The cognitive The teacher Students will objective is will bring the be sitting being addressed group of four quietly in a in this stage year-olds group on the which serves as together and classroom the introduction explain that floor and to the cookery the activity watch and activity. Teacher they would listen will solicit engage in is attentively as names of the making sorrel. the prezi is cuisines She will then being played. displayed in the play the prezi prezi with video. pronunciation and repetition 1) Various types of local Christmas dishes will be displayed and introduced to the children via a prezi. Dishes would include: pastels, sorrel, ponche de crme, fruit cake, ginger beer, bread and ham. 2) Teacher would then draw focus to the sorrel drink and would introduce the fruit, sorrel to them where children will have the opportunity to see and identify the sorrel fruit, feel it etc. 3) The children will learn about how the sorrel is made, the various steps involved (washing it, peeling it, boiling it, draining it, sweetening it and serving it) and they would be able to make some for themselves. Affective and Psychomotor objectives will be addressed at this stage where the children will participate in the cooking activity of making the Materials needed to complete this phase of the lesson will be sorrel, a pot, a stove, a jug and some cups with ice for preparing the The teacher will take the group of four year-olds to the kitchen where they would engage in the cookery activity of preparing The children will pretend to be chefs will participating in the cookery activity. They will attentively observe the teacher and carry out her

Materials (Identify the materials [including technology related] needed at each stage) Computer, projector to display prezi, speakers

Teacher (Describe what the teacher will be doing at each stage)

Student (Describe what the student will be doing at each stage)

Also include practice activities, a plan for providing feedback, as well as examples to aid their understanding.

sorrel drink. The strategy that would be employed would be role-playing where the children would dress up in aprons and chef hats and pretend to chefs.

sorrel drink.

Closure (Describe how you will bring the lesson to a close. Review

sorrel. The teacher would explain to them what they will be doing and have them put on their aprons and chef hats. The teacher will be wearing an apron as well and would show children how to wash the sorrel. The teacher will then show the children how they should peel the sorrel and allow them to start peeling it until they have peeled all. Next, the teacher will guide and supervise the children through the various steps involved (peel, boil, drain and sweeten the sorrel. She will then serve them some sorrel. Speakers to While the play the song children enjoy Trini the sorrel Christmas is the drink, the Best teacher will

instructions as she guides them through the various steps involved in preparing the sorrel drink. They will peel the sorrel, place it in the pot and after it has been boiled, drained and sweetened, they will have a taste of it.

The children will enjoy their sorrel drink and listen to the

the objectives and how they will connect to the following lesson [if applicable])

play and sing the song.

song played. They may even dance if they wish.

Summative Assessment: Children will engage in a treasure hunt to find pictures with the various local Christmas cuisines and other non-Christmas cuisines. They will then be given the opportunity to identify which are Christmas cuisines. They will then be given cards with pictures of the steps involved in making sorrel to put in order. These activities will assess whether the children are able to identify and name local Christmas cuisines as well as relate the process of making sorrel. Contingency Plan: Printed pictures of the local Christmas cuisines and a book or magazine with them in the event that the computer or projector (for the prezi), fails to work.