This document provides a lesson plan for a 1-day learning activity on community signs and symbols for infants year 2. The activity aims to help students interpret common signs and symbols, recognize shapes in pictorial representations, and create their own sign. It involves role playing with hand signals, identifying features of stop and exit signs, taking a walk to observe school signs, and creating a new sign for an area using colors, shapes and symbols. Student understanding will be assessed through participation, discussions, and matching signs to their meanings.
This document provides a lesson plan for a 1-day learning activity on community signs and symbols for infants year 2. The activity aims to help students interpret common signs and symbols, recognize shapes in pictorial representations, and create their own sign. It involves role playing with hand signals, identifying features of stop and exit signs, taking a walk to observe school signs, and creating a new sign for an area using colors, shapes and symbols. Student understanding will be assessed through participation, discussions, and matching signs to their meanings.
This document provides a lesson plan for a 1-day learning activity on community signs and symbols for infants year 2. The activity aims to help students interpret common signs and symbols, recognize shapes in pictorial representations, and create their own sign. It involves role playing with hand signals, identifying features of stop and exit signs, taking a walk to observe school signs, and creating a new sign for an area using colors, shapes and symbols. Student understanding will be assessed through participation, discussions, and matching signs to their meanings.
This document provides a lesson plan for a 1-day learning activity on community signs and symbols for infants year 2. The activity aims to help students interpret common signs and symbols, recognize shapes in pictorial representations, and create their own sign. It involves role playing with hand signals, identifying features of stop and exit signs, taking a walk to observe school signs, and creating a new sign for an area using colors, shapes and symbols. Student understanding will be assessed through participation, discussions, and matching signs to their meanings.
Learning Activity: 3 of 5 Class: Infants Year 2 Theme: The Built Community
Duration: 1 day Topic: Community Signs and Symbols
Context: CONSIDERATIONS: Signs and symbols are an important part of the communication especially ☐HFLE in the community. A sign uses a combination of shapes, colours, pictures and words to deliver information better. Symbols are visual Literacy representations of something much bigger. Signs and symbols must be ☒Reading ☒Writing clear and easy to recognize and understand. Some give directions. Some ☐Literary Appreciation tell us where to find important places while others help us find our way ☒Oral Communication around the community or alert us to danger. ☒Media & Information Outcomes: Literacy At the end of this learning experience, students will: Numeracy interpret symbols and signs around the community ☒Problem Solving create a sign that can be used in their school or community ☒Critical thinking ☒Communication recognize plane shapes in pictorial representations. ☒Representation Activities: ☒Reasoning Signs and Symbols Communicate Meaning ☒ICT Skills 1. Teacher and student pretend to have speech impairment. They role ☒Differentiated play a police (teacher/student) directing traffic using hands only. The Instruction student/teacher obeys the police by following the hand signals. Students guess what the hand signal meant. ☒Assessment for 2. Students listen to teacher’s explanation that signs and symbols learning convey messages and that the colour, shape symbols, letters and words on signs helps to communicate meaning. 3. Students attempt to state the messages conveyed by four familiar signs (Stop sign, Exit sign etc.). They identify visible features of the signs e.g. colour, shape, symbol, letters or words displayed on each sign. 4. Students discuss with the help of the teacher how these features help to communicate the message of the sign. They listen and observe some examples of how to use the features to understand the meaning of the sign. 5. Students explore other signs that may be unfamiliar by identifying features and explaining meanings and messages conveyed by each sign. 6. Students listen to the teacher when necessary to correct misconceptions. Creating a Sign 7. Students take a walk around the school to look at signs. They read and interpret the signs with the help of the teacher. 8. Students select an area around the school where there should be a sign and there is no sign displayed. 9. They discuss what should be written on the sign and what colours, shapes and symbols they can use to help convey the message. 10. Students, working in groups, create the sign using a drawing program on the computer or paper and markers. Resources:
