lesson 6 (Literacy lesson)

Date & Duration of lesson:	Number of students:		Age Range of students:
45 minutes	23		5-6
Aims of Lesson: (Link to the ADEC curriculum document.)			Resources:
·      Theme : UAE National Week ·      letter: Review letter S ·      Number: 8 (Patterns) ·   Target Vocabulary: Spider, Snake, Soup, Sand, School, Star, Sun.			·      Letter S objects pictures. (Spider, Snake, Soup, Sand, School, Star, Sun). ·      "Itsy Bitsy, Incy Wincy, & Teeny Weeny Spider" song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-l2P-b5z2s ·      Spider body parts printable for each child. ·      Wiggly eyes )2 for each child). ·      Glitters. ·      Glue for each child. ·      Scissors (1 for each child) ·      Paints (red, green, white and black)
Supporting activities:
Review the objects names that start with the letter S.		Show them the “Insy Winsy Spider” video.		Sing the “Insy Winsy Spider” song.	Hand Print Spider
Whole 1: -     Review the objects names that start with the letter S. -     Show them the “Insy Winsy Spider” video. -     Sing the “Insy Winsy Spider” song. -     Ask some children one by one to be the boss and sing the song with the other children. Focus activity: -          Let the children cutout the body of the spider and glue the legs of it. Then have them place their hands in red, green, white and black paints and stamp them  on the spider legs printable.  You can have the children use wiggly eyes to make eyes. At the end let them decorate their spiders as they want.

This is a literacy lesson that had a creative art activity and play. At the beginning of the lesson, reviewed with them the words that start with the sound S. They start giving me some words like spider, star, spoon, snake and sun. I introduced some more words for them from the PowerPoint and I asked the children one by one to name choose a picture and name it. After that, I played the video song for them and I encouraged them to sing it with each other by letting one of them the leader.

 During the focus activity, I provided the appropriate materials for the children to create a hand print spider. They were very creative while they were doing the activity. This is because of that they choose different paint colors to print by their fingers as well as different designing with glitters.

Numeracy lesson 16 (20-11-2012)

Date & Duration of lesson:	Number of students:			Age Range of students:
45 minutes	23			5-6
Aims of Lesson: (Link to the ADEC curriculum document.)				Resources:
·      Theme : UAE traditions ·      letter: K ·      Number: 7 ·   Target Vocabulary: Kangaroo, key, kite, kanjar, kandora, king, red, green, black, white				·      (Seven Song - Jumpin' Numbers & Shakin' Shapes) Song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQ1ykuFHtU ·      Flash cards have star shapes in different numbers. ·      PowerPoint that has slides of objects in different numbers. (each flash card has e.g. 1 car, 2 cats, 3 kangaroos, 4 keys, 5 kites, 6 kanjars, 7 kandora, 8 kings, 9, kinders, 10 cakes) ·      UAE map printable size A0. ·      Paint colors (Red, green, white, black)
Supporting activities:
Review the number of the week with them by asking them questions.		Play the song for them.	Flash cards game.		PowerPoint game.	Hand printing activity on the UAE map.
Whole 1: -     Ask the children about the number of the week and let them write it by their magic finger. -     Play the song for them and let them do the same actions that are in the song and let them make number 7 by their body and fingers. -     Ask them how many emirates do we have in the UAE. -     Let them count the number of stars in the flash cards. -     Show them the PowerPoint that has slides of objects in different numbers. (each flash card has e.g. 1 car, 2 cats, 3 kangaroos, 4 keys, 5 kites, 6 kanjars, 7 kandora, 8 kings, 9, kinders, 10 cakes) Focus activity: -          Ask the children by groups to help each other put paints on their hands and print them on the map.

In this lesson , the children were playing and working collaboratively and in creative way. With the whole children, I asked them about the number of the week and I let them write it by their magic fingers. It was a good idea when I asked a student to model the number 7 by his body. It was a little bit difficult for them, so I supported them by showing them the movie song to have an idea about how to make the number. In other words, when no one could to do this was a good lead in my video. Asking children to make seven using fingers other than (5+2) was good higher thinking game. Moreover, the counting activity was good asking specific children to count a star card to their ability. It was a good blending of subject matter when I asked the children to count pictures that started with the letter of the week ‘K’.

In the focus group activity, the children were working together by putting the color that each child like on his/her hand. They have created a colorful UAE map with the flag color.