**Lesson Plan: Orderliness at Home**
**Subject**: Civic Education
**Grade Level**: Nursery 2 (Ages 4-5)
**Duration**: 30 Minutes
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**Objective**:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Understand the concept of orderliness at home.
2. Identify examples of orderliness.
3. Demonstrate simple tasks that maintain order at home.
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**Materials Needed**:
- Picture cards showing orderly and disorderly homes
- Toy boxes or bins
- Storybook related to orderliness
- Songs or rhymes about cleanliness and organization
- Flashcards
- Stickers for reward
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**Introduction**: (5 minutes)
1. **Greeting and Warm-Up:**
- Begin with a greeting song to get students excited and engaged.
- Sing: "Hello, How Are You?" to settle them down.
2. **Introduction to the Topic:**
- Show a picture of a messy room and another of a tidy room.
- Ask the students which one they like better and why.
**Lesson Development**: (15 minutes)
1. **Story Time** (5 minutes):
- Read a short storybook related to a character being tidy and organized at home.
- Example: "Tidy Up Trevor" or any other relevant book.
2. **Discussion and Questioning** (5 minutes):
- Ask students to describe what they saw in the story.
- What were the characters doing to keep their rooms tidy?
- What does it mean to be orderly?
- Why is it important to keep our homes clean?
3. **Demonstration Activity** (5 minutes):
- Have a small pile of toys and ask for volunteers to help "clean up" and put them into toy bins.
- Encourage all students to participate by taking turns.
**Practice/Activities**: (10 minutes)
1. **Sing a Song**:
- Teach a simple song or rhyme about putting toys away, cleaning up, or being tidy.
- Example: "Clean Up Song" (Tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star")
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Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere,
Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share.
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2. **Identifying Orderly and Disorderly**:
- Display flashcards with pictures of an orderly shelf and a messy shelf.
- Ask students to identify which is orderly and which is not.
- Allow them to color pictures of tidy rooms.
3. **Rewarding Good Behavior**:
- Give stickers to students who participate.
- Emphasize that being orderly is celebrated and noticed at home too.
**Conclusion**: (5 minutes)
1. **Recap the Lesson**:
- Summarize the key points about orderliness.
- Ask a few students why it’s important to keep things tidy at home.
2. **Closing**:
- End with a closing song or a dance.
- Encourage students to tell their parents what they learned about being orderly.
- Remind them that practicing orderliness at home makes everyone happier and safer.
**Assessment**:
- Observe students' participation and enthusiasm during the activities.
- Ask simple questions to gauge their understanding.
- Positive reinforcement through stickers and praise for effort.
**Follow-Up**:
- Encourage parents to continue the conversation about orderliness at home.
- Suggest a simple home task for children like putting their toys away every evening.
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