Today lesson was
much better that yesterday because I go through the rules of being in a corner,
how to play, how to use our voices and
repeat that if you break the rules you have you will be moved to the yellow, no
sticker and you will be not allowed to
use this corner next day.
For my small group activity I take 3 students as a beginning so other children apply the rules in the corner so they get place in my corner to do the activity. In the first group 2 children were able to print their two hands to make the ten fingers patterns of two colors from their choose but one child could not do one hand appropriately so I decided for the next group to have one hand print .
For
the first group my instructions were two steps 1 to color finger with X color
and the next with Y and so on and how to put it in the paper but for the next
group my instructions get better and more detailed and numbered. For example,
first we put the hand that we write with up and the other hand we will work on
it and color it second, after we finished we will put our hand on the paper and
count to 5 and take it off third, do not put your hand on the paper until Ms.
Asma see it and said yes ok go ahead in order to see their pattern and scaffold
their learning. Moreover, For the second group I did my assessment to see who
needs more support in learning patterns and who is ok.
At the end of
the lesson I was surprised that I have the same list of children that they need
support as my MST so for tomorrow when I have my focus group those children on
the list will be with high ability children doing the same activity for example
if I have 4 students three will be high and one will be from the list. 
Very nice activity. I may steal your idea and do it for our numeracy outcome which still pattern =D
ReplyDeleteI also liked how you and your MST decided to put high ability child with low ability to help the lower child and scaffold him.
Hi Asmonne,
ReplyDeleteUsing fine motor skills to establish a concept like pattern is a new and unconventional to some early years teachers. However, you are being yourself and by that I mean creative and looking for new methods to teach children. I like it simple and effective and fun.
So nice.