The Rainbow Fish Lesson....?
I am currently going to college to become a Teacher, for my Education class I have to create a lesson plan on how to teach 4-year olds how to share using the book, The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. This age group is unfortunately not the age I'd prefer to teach (I want to teach High School Chemistry) and I am having a hard time being creative enough for this assignment.
I don't usually ask for help on an assignment but I have been researching various ideas on the internet and I have received good ideas but I am still stuck. This lesson plan will be used in a classroom for a daycare so it has to be a good one.
My question is, what activity should I use to teach these 4-year olds about the importance of sharing or another theme within this book Please only serious answers, like I said I don't like to recieve help on homework but at the moment I am in a standstill and can't think of anything.
I would read the story, think of how you feel about it, and promote the lessons in it with something that gives the children a chance to act these out after you read it. I would use aspects of dramatic play because children can negotiate with each other acting as fish with the morals of the story fresh. You would be doing observations of different children receiving different lessons. Its interesting that this story is the choice because there is a bit of controversy of what the true theme is. Is it fair play and community, or is it aspects of socialism. Some might neglect looking into this but I am sure your dramatic play will display a little divergence of the moral of the story. I think the story does contain an amazing message that offers the tone of helping others who have less and this is needed. Your teaching could support the theme as it is read but with dramatic play it can support individual interpretation as honest representations.
Rainbow Fish Read-Aloud
