This document provides an exemplar lesson plan for a kindergarten class focusing on plants in the environment. The lesson plan includes the following blocks of time: 1. Circle time involving songs, pledges, exercises and weather reports. 2. Meeting time to introduce that plants have different parts using a puzzle activity. 3. A work period where students name common plants, identify letters, count syllables, and complete worksheets through independent and teacher-supervised activities like a nature walk. 4. A second meeting time to discuss observations from the nature walk, followed by a story time about planting trees and corresponding activities to identify parts of plants and compare numbers. 5. Indoor and

1. CULTURE BASED LESSON EXEMPLAR IN KINDERGARTEN
BLOCKS OF TIME
Specific Topic Plants in the environment
Cultural Knowledge Item Common name of plants in the community
Heritage Domain Oral tradition and Natural heritage
CONTENT FOCUS:
We have plants in the environment
I. CIRCLE TIME
1. Pag-awit ng Pambansang Awit ( Lupang Hinirang )
2. Panunumpa sa Watawat
3. Panalangin
4. Awit
5. Pag-eehersisyo
6. Pagsusuring Pangkalusugan
7. Pag-uulat tungkol sa panahon ( Ang Panahon )
8. Pag-uulat tungkol sa araw
TRANSITION SONG
Watermelon, watermelon
II. MEETING TIME 1
Message: Plants have different parts.
Plants Puzzle
III. WORK PERIOD 1
Objective:
Name common plants.
Identify the letters of the alphabet (LLKAK-Ih-3)
Tell the number of syllables in given spoken words (LLKPA-Ig-8)
Match an upper- to its lower-case letter (LLKAK-Ih-4)
Learning Domains: Socio-Emotional Development
Values Development
Physical and Natural Environment
Language Literacy and Communication
Activities:
Teacher Supervised:
Questions: What are the parts of the plant?

2. Nature Trip
Independent: 1. Syllable Count
2. Garden Letter Hunt
3. Plants Coloring Worksheets
IV. MEETING TIME 2
Layunin: Express simple ideas through symbols
Learning Domains: Socio-Emotional Development
Values Development
Physical and Natural Environment
Language Literacy and Communication
Activity: Talk about the Nature Trip activity and what plants the learners saw
outside.
TRANSITION SONG
I have Two hands
V. SUPERVISED RECESS: Essential Health Care Program
1. Paghuhugas ng kamay
2. Paghahanda ng pagkain
3. Panalangin
4. Oras ng Pagkain
5. Pagliligpit ng pinagkainan
6. Pahinga
VI. STORY TIME:
 Before presenting story I will ask first my learners if they have beliefs or rituals in planting
trees.
Title: Plant a tree
Objective: Listen attentively to the story (LLKLC-00-1 p. 29)
Learning Domains: Socio-Emotional Development
Values Development
Physical and Natural Environment
Language Literacy and Communication
Guide Questions:
 Before Reading
Nakasuway na ba mo og tanum ?
 During Reading
1. Giunsa pagtubo sa tanom ni Elly ?
2. Unsay gibuhat ni Elly sa tanom nga mitubo?

3.  After Reading
1. Ngano kinahanglan man ta magtanom.?
VII. WORK PERIOD 2
Layunin:
Naisasagawa ang mga sumusunod na kasanayan: pagtiklop ng papel (KPKFM-00-1.2)
Compare two groups of objects to decide which is more or less, or if they are equal;
Identify sets with one more or one less element (MKC-00-8)
Learning Domains: Socio-Emotional Development
Values Development
Physical and Natural Environment
Mathematics
Language Literacy and Communication
Mungkaging Gawain: Who has more?
Independent: 1.Comparing Numbers: Plants
2. Number 10 worksheets
VIII. INDOOR/OUTDOOR PLAY
Layunin: Nakasasali sa mga laro, o anumang pisikal na gawain at iba’t ibang paraan
ng pag-eehersisyo (KPKPF-00-1)
Game: Falling Leaves
Learning Domains: Socio-Emotional Development
Values Development
Physical and Natural Environment
Mathematics
Language Literacy and Communication
Procedure:
1. Let the learners form groups with four members each.
2. One learner will stand straight with both arms stretched sidewards. S/He will be
the tree trunk. Two learners will hold on to the left arm of the tree and one
learners will hold on to the right arm.
3. A caller will say, “__ leaves are falling” (say a number from 1-10).
4. The corresponding number of leaves will run from one tree to another. The caller
will also run to a vacant tree. The learner without a tree will be the next caller.
VIII. MEETING TIME 3
Dismissal Routines:
 Prayer
 Song: Paalam na Sayo

4. Prepared by:
HONEYMIE C. CASTILLANO
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