Category: Language Arts
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Objective:
Language Arts TEKS 2.7B
Reading/variety of texts. The
student reads widely for different purposes in varied sources. The student is expected
to: read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire
information from both print and electronic sources.
Music
TEKS 2.6A
Response/evaluation.
The student responds to and evaluates music and musical performance.
The student is expected to: distinguish between beat/rhythm, higher/lower,
louder/softer, faster/slower, and same/different in musical performances.
Behavioral Objective:
The student will read the poem Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
for pleasure.
Materials:
Cardboard noses with elastic attached; copies for each child of the poem
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky from The New Kid
on the Block, published by Greenwillow, 1984; drawing paper; crayons;
non-tuned percussion instruments.
Be Glad Your
Nose is on Your Face
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose, instead through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place --
be glad your nose is on your face!
Jack Prelutsky |
Activities:
Introduce the lesson by having the children put the cardboard noses on
different parts of their bodies such as their elbows, ankles, etc.
Play Simon Says with directions to touch their eyes, toes, elbows, nose,
etc. Discuss words in the poem that the children do not know such as
catastrophe. Have the children break into small groups
to read the poem Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face and draw a picture
of what a person would look like if their nose were not on their face.
Have the students share their pictures with each other. Have the
students select one word from the poem, and groups of words from the poem,
and a word related to the poem that isn't in the poem. For example,
the words may be (1) ears, (2) the nose on your face, (3) tissue.
Process: