This lesson plan teaches 1st grade students, including some with ADHD, the months of the year through activity stations focused on seasons. Each station contains a slideshow, coloring pages, games, flashcards or charts about 3 months. Materials include iPads, coloring supplies, songs, computer games, and blank calendars. Students will rotate through 4 seasonal stations and a review station, completing 1 activity at each before advancing. They will then assemble a calendar with the months in chronological order. The teacher will get feedback from colleagues on teaching this topic to students with ADHD.

1. Shannon Dunn
ASSURE Method Assignment
A:
Teaching the months of the year to a 1st grade class, Special ed., 10 boys, 7 girls, 70% white
20% African-American and 10% Hispanic.7 students in the class have mild to severe ADHD
(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
S:
This first-grade class will learn the months of the year by making a calendar, playing games,
singing songs, arranging flashcards, and identifying important dates. By the end of the unit,
the students will arrange calendar sheets of all 12 months of the year correctly in
chronological order (100% accuracy). Students will have two attempts to complete and
revise their final calendar.
S:
Method- Activity stations (5). Each station will focus on three months of a particular
season, plus a bonus station to practice all the months together.
Media- Each station will have a slide show presentation including pictures of nature, staple
holidays and other events that may happen in those given months. Each station will also
have three activities pertaining to the months in that particular season, which may include
singing, coloring pages, computer games, flashcards, monthly calendar charts, physical
games, or finding important dates.
MaterialsSlideshow of each season including natural pictures, holidays, and certain
events for a given month or season

2. I-pad for slideshows at each station.
4 sets of coloring pages portraying each season
colored pencils, markers and/or crayons
Blank month chart sheets
Flashcards
Songs that emphasis months in a given season
Songs that teach months of the year in order
Computer games
Months of the year hopscotch
Blank flip calendar and adhesive/removable month name placards
U:
Preview Material- look over slideshows, coloring pages, month charts, song lyrics, and
computer game content.
Prepare Material- Print all handouts and gather supplies. Separate materials into station
stacks.
Prepare the Environment- Set tables as each station, and start slideshows. Set computers
to the appropriate games and set music player to the specific songs.
Prepare Learners- Write objectives and specific station instructions on the board. Go over
specifics with students and answer any questions they have.
Provide the Learning Experience- Divide students into four groups and provide an
overview of each station.

3. R:
Explain to students that they are free to move from station to station, but must complete
one of the three activities at a station before moving onto another. All three activities at the
four seasonal stations must be completed before moving onto the last station that helps
review all the months together. Whenever the students become comfortable at the last
station, they can begin assembling their final calendar.
E:
Ask other teachers about lesson specifics and their experience with this kind of lesson plan
for children with ADHD.