First lesson-literacy- part 2 of TP

12-11-2012 

 Literacy (Making play dough and using the senses 1. Tough  2. Smell)

I planned to start the lesson with the week’s letter which is /n/.  I first ask the children if they remember what letter is that (pointing to the /n/ letter on the board.

I then connected the letter with one student’s name (Noora) , I bring some of the children’s pictures and asked them does it start with /n/? for example, Nali for Ali, Nathari for Athari and so on. Then I asked them about things that starts with /n/ they told me Ms. Naseem and nose after that I introduce nurse, notebook, nose.

 I asked one child to show me the letter /n/ in the blue wall but he went to the door and point at the letter /n/ which is good. I asked another child to point in the blue wall and she did.

From this point I introduce my activity which was making play dough and adding food color to it in order to for the children to smell it. I told the students what  do we do with our nose? Eating, seeing. Smelling?

I started to divide the students into 3 groups each group with 5-6  students. I went around and I give each group amounts of flour, water, salt and oil until we finish the activity.

In this group the most important goal for me if to have the children touching and smelling. It doesn’t matter if they produce perfect play dough.

I also planned to have another activity but I think I haven’t thought carefully about the time that I will spend in reviewing the letter and doing the play dough activity.

 

 

 

Reflection

 

In general I should count this lesson as part of literacy and numeracy because it talks about smell, touch and measure the components needed. Secondly, I think if the lesson was about the letter in the whole and then in focus groups we discuss the touch and smell. Thirdly, I could provide the components needed before where each child has something do add. For example, one child will hand one cup of flour, other one will handle the slat, oil or water and so on. Finally, to save the time, I should bring some cloves and aprons so the children just take it off and sit on the carpet instead of asking them to go and wash their hands which affects the time management of observation.