*** Let's Make a Police Officer Badge! ***

What is our theme?
Tracing, fine motor skills, imaginational art

What is the lesson (overall Purpose): 
Trace with coloring tool, create your own police officer badge 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Physical Activities and Fitness pg.139
This section will be updated to reflect the Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework currently undergoing revision

• Show cutting skills including unstructured snipping (e.g., snipping pieces of plastic straws or strips of paper); cutting within a “track,” and cutting on a line and stopping at a marked point.

PreK-PS1-4 (MA). Recognize through investigation that physical objects and materials can change under different circumstances. 
W.PK.3. Use a combination of dictating and drawing to tell a story.


Learning Outcomes:
Aspects of Reading and Writing
Language and literacy are complex learning processes. Educators need a comprehensive understanding of child development in several key areas in order to determine children’s individual need and design experiences that build needed skills related to the English Language Arts. These areas of development include:

• listening and speaking vocabulary;
• articulation skills;
• listening/attending skills;
• phonological/phonemic awareness;
• social-emotional and executive function skills;
• physical skills that develop the child's sense of spatial awareness; large muscle development, and fine motor development; and
• visual/perception and visual/motor skills that relate to the ability to see how letters are formed, and reproduce them (e.g., the subtle difference between a lower-case b and d). For children with visual impairment, tactile skills are also needed to tactually discriminate among Braille symbols.

Songs,Books,Video(Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfTRQZEMRk - Informational clip 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYjwxcNxsM - Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjMVny73S0o - Book 


Materials
Badge

• Cardboard and/or paper
• Coloring tools 
• Tinfoil 
• Scissors 

Tracing/Scissor cutting 

• Scissors 
• Paper 
• Coloring tools 

Activity(Procedure)
Badge 

1. Gather materials 
2. Cut our a shape of a badge, or star, or whatever shape you would like your badge to be out of the cardboard or paper
3. Cover the cardboard badge in tinfoil 
4. Write your name on the bage, and decorate to your liking 

Tracing/Scissor cutting 

1. Gather materials 
2. See picture below
3. Follow dotted lines with coloring tool, or scissors to practice following the lines

Activity(wrap up)
Being able to use your fine motor skills or cut, color, and wrap the tinfoil around the badge

How do I know what my child is learning?(Assessment)
Can your child use their fine motor skills in this particular way with or without assistance? 

How can you extend the activity (modifications)
See materials above. 

Helpful Hints (pitfalls and solutions)
You might not cut on the dotted line, that's okay, you can continue to practice your scissor skills with using the dotted lines as guidance. 

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