Teaching the months of the year to 1st graders.

1. Brittany Reavis
CI 350
2/4/15
ASSURE Method
Analyze Learners
My students are first grade special education students. There are ten boys and seven girls
in my class. Seventy percent of the students are white, twenty percent are African American, and
ten percent are Latino. There are seven students in my class that have mild to severe ADHA
(Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
State Objectives
The class will be able to recite the months of the year in order and understand the seasons and
holidays to which each month belongs with the help of songs, calendars, and games that require
mental and physical activities with one hundred percent accuracy by the of three weeks.
Select Methods, Media and Materials
Three methods will be used in order to obtain one hundred percent accuracy in teaching the
students the months of the year. First, the months of the year macarena video/song will be played
each morning for the auditory learners in the class. Second, a calendar will be placed in the class
rooms so during morning meeting we can talk about what month we are in and the season
associates with that month. Calendar/Season books will as be made so the students can relate the
seasons to particular months. This method will help aid visual learners. Third, games where
students are assigned a month and they will have 3 minutes to line themselves in the correct
order of the months. This method will help my hands on learners.
Utilize Media and Materials
The goal of 100 percent accuracy will be attained through the use media, materials and games,
such as:

2. -Instructing students to line up in the order of their assigned month from January to December.
Then to challenge them I will ask them to start with December and go to January.
- I will make sure my students have markers, colored pencils and crayons to decorate their own
calendar. For each month I will ask them to decorate them based on the season associated with
that month.
- I will use the video, “Months of the year Macarena,” on YouTube.
- I will use the big calendar during morning meeting to introduce the concepts of the months to
the students. I will discuss what month we are in and explain how we use calendars to mark the
changing months and record the passage of time.
Require Learner Participation
I will encourage participation through every activity. I will have my students sit in a circle on the
carpet, and I will play the song and sing along with them, which will encourage everyone to
participate. They will also be encouraged to sing and dance along with the video. With one of the
hands-on activity, my students will stand up and each will hold a piece of paper with a month
written on it. They will have the opportunity to communicate with each other to make sure they
have the months in the correct order, before their time is up. The other hands-on activity will
allow them to create their own calendars; they will be able to show what they have learned.
Evaluate and Revise
I will evaluate my students' knowledge of the months of the year by their ability to recite and
describe the months on their own without my assistance.
I will evaluate my use of methods by observing my students' level of participation in the
activities I assign. I will also be able to see if my methods were or were not effective, by my
students' attitude towards the activities; and also by their knowledge of the months, by the end of
the month.
I will revise the assignments my students completed, in order to see if they fully know the
months of the year. I will look back on the worksheets they completed to see if any of them had
trouble completing them. I will also look back on the calendars they completed in order to see if
they were able to create a full calendar that includes all twelve months in chronological order, as
well as decorations that relate to each month.
When I find that certain students are struggling, a modification to the lesson will be made in
order to maintain the goal of 100 percent