Didactic Unit - E Learning

Didactic Unit
Teacher’s Name: María Alejandra Salinas
Grade: Pre School. Transición
Date: 14/08/13
Curricular Area English		Main Topic Shapes, Sizes, Textures and basic structures of description.
Competences		Goals	Content
·         The children are expected to get engaged with pictures and drawings of the famous painter Kandinsky in order to learn new vocabulary about shapes and textures integrating them in simple structures.		·         The children will have their own understanding of the pictures and drawings displayed in the  blog. In order to make their pictures and drawings fallowing instructions.	Concepts: Vocabulary: Shapes, Sizes, Textures and basic structures of description.
			Procedures: Through the paints and drawings of Kandinsky the children will be in touched with different shapes, textures, colors and sizes. It is very important to show the pictures and always give a descriptions of what is displayed, encouraging the students to make their own descriptions.
			Attitudes : ·         I want the children to develop their confidence to talk and understand that English is a different language which they can use as their own.  ·         The students are expected to enjoy the activities in this way they are going to gain interest in the language. ·         The descriptions are going to be in the blog through videos and song.
Development
Steps		Description		Resources	Strategies
Motivation		Giving the students a variety of materials and opportunities to interact with it.   The children will feel part of the blog as they can see their works and pictures on the blog.		Posters, videos, books, papers, water paints, colors, crayons, recycled material, playdough and clay.The materials need to be given by the parents of the children and they will be expected to help them to  draw and paint at home.	·          The Bloog will be colorful and interesting for the children. ·         As they bring the homeworks at school I will take pictures of them to be uploading, so the child would have the opportunity to see his or her products on the blog.
Anchorage		The students will have the opportunity to paint and make their artistic products as the homework, after they are going to have an exposition of it, showing and describing their works to peers and parents. The use of the blog will give different tolls to the children to learn English and arts as subject or content. Working at home in different activities and technology tools gives to the children new ways to learn, have fun and develop their artistic skills.			·         The blog itself has the step by step of the topics the children are going to work during the term, giving the children instructions, examples and goal to becomplete each week.
Scaffolding		The topics that we are going to work, will be divided in groups in each virtual class , so they will learn 1 Shape, 1 Size,1 Texture and 1 basic structure of description each virtual class.  Week1 : A video about Kandinsky pictures. The description of a picture. The home work: make a picture just using circles of different sizes and describe it in 8 words to peers in the classroom. Week 2: ·         Listen to a description of one of Kandinsky’s pictures 2 times.  ·         Have a look to the picture (just after the listening activity) ·         Home work: Make a puzzle using one of Kandinsky’s pictures. Week 3:		A lesson plan for each class taking into an account all the aspects of the topics I am going to teach.
Consolidation		In every single class the children will have a look to a picture, to a vocabulary to describe and the opportunity to make their own artist product choosing the material and way to do it. In some cases they are going to be ask to upload their pictures to the blog. Activities
Evaluation		I will be an observer and listener in the classes at school, registering the process of each child in order to find strategies that will improve their skills and overcome the difficulties.		Tracking form of each children.	Planning activities at the classroom focusing in the vocabulary and structures taught in the blog.
Evaluation	Outstanding
	Satisfactory
	In process - It is in process right now, but it is being successful.

 

 

Homework:





Let´s Play
 

 http://www.thekidzpage.com/learninggames/shapes.HTML
 

¡¡¡Bring your Drawing and show it to your Friends!!!

 

 

 

 

 



You can draw every where!!!!

Homework:
This is a Draw of Kandinsky.
Make one of you using your favorite colors!!

Let´s play Again!!!!!
http://www.colorwithleo.com/art_draw.php?PHPSESSID=4a0ce468182ffab6edab14b452f573b0

Do you Want to draw like Kandinski....

You can Do it
As homework Please Bring your Drawing.

 

 

 

 

 

Let´s Play With Shapes

http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/i_love_shapes/i_love_shapes.HTML

 

 

 

Lets Sing With the Shapes

 

 

Occupation: Artist, Painter

Born: December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia

Died: December 13, 1944 in Paris, France

Famous works: Composition VI, Composition VII, On White II, Contrasting Sounds

Style/Period: Expressionism, Abstract Art

Biography:
Where did Wassily Kandinsky grow up?

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 16, 1866. He grew up in the Russian city of Odessa where he enjoyed music and learned to play the piano and the cello.

Becoming an Artist

Kandinsky went to college and then became a law teacher. However, when he was thirty he decided to change careers and become an artist. He attended art school at Munich, Germany. Early on his art was influenced by painters like Claude Monet as well as music composers and philosophers.

Early Art

Kandinsky's early paintings were landscapes that were heavily influenced by Impressionist artists as well as Pointillism and Fauvism. The most famous of his early works is The Blue Rider which he painted in 1903.

Abstract Expressionism

About 1909 Kandinsky began to think that painting didn't need a particular subject, but that shapes and colors alone could be art. Over the next several years he would start to paint what would become known as Abstract Art. Kandinsky was one of the founding fathers of Abstract Art.

Colors and Shapes

Kandinsky felt that he could express feelings and music through colors and shapes in his paintings. For example, he thought that yellow had the crisp sound of a brass trumpet and that certain colors placed together could harmonize like chords on a piano. The shapes he was most interested in were the circle, triangle, and the square. He thought the triangle would cause aggressive feelings, the square calm feelings, and the circle spiritual feelings.