This document provides a lesson plan for teaching first grade special education students the months of the year. It analyzes the learners as being 6-7 years old, with most being white but some African American and Hispanic. Seven have ADHD. The objectives are for students to learn the months and associate them with seasons, identifying activities and holidays. The lesson will use an interactive website, poster boards divided into seasonal stations with pictures of months, activities and holidays. Students will participate by using the website, exploring the stations, acting out activities, and completing a worksheet identifying their favorite month. The lesson may need revising, such as breaking up the website portion into smaller chunks.

1. Samantha Smith
CI 305-203
23 January 2014
Assure Assignment
1. Teaching the months of the year to 1st
grade, Special Education.
Analyze Learners
The students are in the first grade, Special education class, and are most likely around the
ages of six and seven. There are 10 boys and seven girls. The majority of the class is white and
20% are African American and 10% Hispanic. Seven of those students have ADHD. Knowing
this information, the lesson will have to be highly engaging and interactive in multiple ways.
State Objectives
The students will learn the months of the year by associating them with the seasons in
which they fall under. The students should also be able to identify activities you do during the
months and holidays that occur in the months.
Select Methods, Media, and Material
I will select material such as an interactive internet website
(http://www.turtlediary.com/kindergarten-games/math-games/months-of-the-year.html), four
trifold poster boards, and pictures. I will also use a worksheet.
Utilize Material and Media
I reviewed the internet material and set up four stations, made out of trifold poster board,
according to season. The stations have the season labeled with pictures represented of the season,
along with months on each section of the board. Each month section of the station has pictures of
activities and holidays that occur in each month. I will also have other pictures which I will use
in the lesson that the students will use to help identify the months.

2. Require Learner Participation
I will first use the interactive website to teach the months of the year. I will then take the
students to each station and let them look at what represents the months with pictures of
activities and holidays that take place in each month. I will ask the students what they like to do
in each month or even let them act an activity such as swimming or throwing snowballs. After,
the students will then be put to the test. Each will have pictures and they will move around the
stations and place their pictures that relate to each month. The students will then pick a favorite
month and complete a worksheet about why they like the month, what takes place in the month,
and what season it is in.
Evaluate and Revise
I expect I will have to revise the lesson. I may have to break up the website lesson and go
to stations after each mini lesson if I cannot keep the attention of the students.