This lesson plan aims to teach 1st grade students the months of the year over the course of a week. Each day focuses on a different element: Day 1 introduces the months, Day 2 covers seasons and holidays, Day 3 reviews months and seasons with activities, Day 4 teaches the months in Spanish, and Day 5 has students line up by birthday and play a counting game as review. Materials include calendars, images, and worksheets. The teacher will use a variety of methods like lecture, small groups, and activities to engage students in learning the months of the year in both English and Spanish.

1. Matthew Hardin
CI 350
ASSURE Method #1
A – Analyze the learner
S – State objective
S – Select methods, media, and materials
U – Utilize media and materials
R – Require learner participation
E- Evaluate and revise
Analyze Learners: teaching the months of the year to a 1st grade special education class with 17
total students (10 boys and 7 girls). The class is 70% white, 20% African-American, and 10%
Hispanic. Also, 0.7% of the students suffer from ADHD.
State Objectives: the learning outcome for this assignment will be for every student to be able to
know and recite the months of the year. We will also be focusing on what months fall during
which season as well as what holidays are in each month. We will also learn the months and
holidays in Spanish to accommodate the Hispanic students. Where some students suffer from
ADHD, after the months and seasons have been taught, I will have the students get in groups of
what season their birthdays fall in and then form a line in chronological order from the first

2. student’s birthday in the class to the last birthday. This activity will take place inside my 1 st
grade classroom. I will provide pictures from each season and give them to the students so they
can associate what month goes with each season while we’re learning the four seasons. Also I
will have a Spanish audio file for when we learn these in another language. We will start this
lesson on a Monday and by Friday the students will know the months, seasons, and be able to
form a line in chronological order by their birthdays.
Select Methods, Materials, and Media.
Method – my method for this lesson will be a hybrid of lecture and small group work so the
students can interact with each other.
Materials – materials will involve my whiteboard, calendars posted around the room, and
pictures from different seasons handed out to the students as well as me putting the picture up on
the projector.
Media – still images, text, computer with a projection screen, Spanish audio and overheads.
Utilize Media and Materials
Students will be using their text notes, the calendars around the room and the still image pictures.
I as the teacher will be using my whiteboard, projector, and computer while also personally
assisting. I will preview the materials before the lesson to give the students a better
understanding of whats going to happen. The materials will be prepared before school starts to
avoid any technology mishaps. I will give my expectations to the class and what I want to
accomplish on Monday before the lesson.
Require Learner Participation

3. In order for the students to learn they have to actively participate and give me feedback on if they
are understanding the material.
Evaluate and Revise
Each day I will evaluate my methods and materials as a teacher to see if I’m getting my point
across to my students and will make revisions needed to accommodate anything that doesn’t
seem to be working.
Lesson Plan
Day 1, Monday – lecture on the months of the year and provide students with worksheets to
write the months to follow along.
Materials will include the students using pencil and paper with me using my whiteboard and
overhead projector.
Day 2, Tuesday – start learning what months occur during what seasons and then learn what
holidays fall in each month and season.
Materials will include images from the different seasons handed to the students as well as me
putting them on the projector.
Day 3, Wednesday – recite the months in chronological order in English as well as the students
writing which month is in which season on different calendars that will be posted around the
room. Students will also get in groups based off their birthdays during each season.
Materials will include monthly calendars and still images as a reference.

4. Day 4, Thursday – we will incorporate a diversity lesson by now learning the months in Spanish
and reciting them as well as seasons, and holidays. This will be conducted like day 1 with more
of a lecture method but we will be more vocal as we learn a new language.
Materials will include images, and calendars as well as a Spanish audio file for when we start
that portion.
Day 5, Friday – we will begin in our small groups based off of students birthdays by season.
Each student in the group will put their name on the calendar on the individual day that is their
birthday. After that has been done, the students will form a line in chronological order to see
who has the first birthday all the way to the last. I will then play a game and count the students
off from 1-17 and call this their lucky number as a reward for learning the lesson.
Materials will include a large monthly calendar for the students to write their names on.