Sunday, November 18, 2012

First lesson in second week of second part in TP - numeracy- introduce patterns


This is was my first time introducing a lesson for KG2, it is totally a new concept for them to learn. I think carefully in the tree days of  the weekend how can I introduce it simply and clearly.






I first refer to the calendar because they were doing days and colors through it. For example, they have purple for the 1st of November, yellow for the 2nd of November, and green for the 3rd of November and so on. I ask them what the colors are in our calendar? After they answer I refer show them big cubes and ask them to complete the pattern with me. As a start I used (A, B) which means two things to put in patterns (red, green, red, green…) or (boy, girl, boy, girl, boy….). 
To conclude our whole time we make our own pattern when the first to children in the circle chose red and blue as a pattern to complete. The plate with small plastic circles were passing around and each child should think what my friend has red or blue what I should choose to complete the pattern?


For small activity I want to make sure that they got the concept at least 60% in order to build on their knowledge tomorrow with different deeper activity.

I gave the children a specific pattern of colors (A, B) to make with beads and when they have it right they can do their own one and if they did not I tried to scaffold and ask one high ability child to help explain it in Arabic.

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