Thursday was an enjoyable day 22-11-2012

 

On Thursday we have lots of fun activates for numeracy and literacy. Firstly, Ms. S, Ms. B and I have started the day with routine like what is the day, date, how many boys, how many girls, how many all together and the seven days’ song.  Secondly, we have explained for the children what they are going to do during the day, which were creating our own UAE’s flag sandwich in the literacy, outdoor play time, creating a necklace with patterns using breakfast cereals and music class.  

 

Literacy lesson:

I started the literacy lesson by asking the children about what they think we are going to do with Ms. B, what things we are going to use, in what colors those things are, how many things we have and so on and then the Arabic teacher asked some questions about what is happening in the town, what they are seeing in the streets and roundabouts, what are the colors in our flag and so on.

Then she modeled the activity for the children by telling them what they are going to use and how they are going to do it. After that we let the children take the activity over and do their own UAE’s flag sandwich. I monitored the children and I was asking them about the right order of the flag in their sandwich and how many vegetables they have used for each color like how many olives, how many tomato…ect.

 

Numeracy lesson:

The children created their own nickels using breakfast cereals.  The problems that I thought of before we started that the children want to eat the cereal during the activity so I told them that they are allow eating 3 of the cereals but they can eat more if they did their nickels in pattern and they sit on the carpet.

Another problem was that three of the children were not able to do patterns so I take this chance to use peer work so I asked Saif Taleb to help Rashed and Hamda to help Saif Abdulla. That’s was really a good desetion to make because the two children did their nickels with their frieds halp not my but I was scaffolding their learning at the end.