Tuesday 3.8.2010

This week has been ridiculously busy. Havent had a chance to catch up on reflections..

Describe:

Did a Lesson on the days of the week, after my teacher spoke to me about the kids not having much consolidation on the days of the week, months of the year etc..
So I decided to finally get my singing skills out of a much hidden away closet and we sang a cute little catchy song about the days of the week. I sung the first line and the kids repeated it. We played cross the river and got the students to put all the days of the week in the correct order. I then noticed the kids had heaps of energy to run out after being locked in the classroom all day due to the weather.. So we played four corners ( 7 days), I turned the music on and the kids had to dance around the room then whe the music stops the students had to freeze and run to a corner with a day of the week. If I called out the day that corner had to say something they did on that day of the week.
Then I got the students to sit back at their desks and write and draw a picture of what they did on each day of the week in the boxes.

Analyse:

This was a really fun lesson, students enjoyed the kinesthetic, verbal and hands on activities throughout the lesson. It was good for me to model in front of the class and brainstorm ideas fo things we do at school on each day of the week. For each day of the week I gave them only one option and then they could choose something they did on the weekend on their own. Im glad I didnt allow more choice becasue it would have been too time consuming for the kids. It was probably slightly rushed towards the end so not all the students had the chance to finish their days of the week. I went around and marked each of the students work and got their verbal explanation of what each student had drawn.

Plan:

Classroom Management still needs work,making sure that all students, fast finishers are all working on something not just waiting around because the kids start to get bored and and wild and thats when the problems start.