My fifth lesson (Numeracy lesson) (10-10-2012)

In general, since this lesson was planned for late in the day, I felt that I did a an excellent job with the children. This is because of they were just finished from their snack time and it was 11:00 am and they were very very active and I thought that I will never get their attention. However, it happened the opposite of what I thought about. The behavior management was good when some children swarmed they rug, I stopped the activity till they were cooperative.

I started the whole section with asking them about what is our number of the week and I asked on child to show me the number from the dice. After that I let the children worked collaboratively by find and search game where I choose 2 children to search for the number 3 card around the classroom. The game encouraged the children to be excited to look for the number. Two were the searcher, but all of them participated by helping them and pointing at the cards that they can see. The children even found some more number 3 in different places that I hadn’t hidden. The use of a musical video was good for this time of day because it helped them to calm down after being very active. I engaged them with the song by asking them some questions.

In the focus activity, I provided a flower model for them that was made from ice-cream wooden stick and 3 hearts that have numbers 1 to 3 written on them. This activity was good and most of the children were able to write the number and glue the 3 hearts on the wooden stick. All of them were able to count how many hearts do they have and recognize the numbers on these hearts. The children were creative in the activity because some of the did not do the flower shape, but they glued the hearts randomly on the stick which very creative thing from them.

Final product:

Lesson plan:

Date & Duration of lesson:	Number of students:	Age Range of students:
45 minutes	25	5-6
Aims of Lesson: (Link to the ADEC curriculum document.)		Resources:
·      Theme : Friends ·      Letter: Tt ·      Number: 3, sorting objects by size, shape and color,… ·   Target Vocabulary: Friends, nice, kind, share, special, turtle, tiger, tent, table, train, truck, telephone, tire, tree, tooth		·      Dice that has numbers. ·      Number 3 flash cards (4 copies) ·      Counting 1-3 song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ku3FueLlV8 ·      Printable heart shapes. (3 For each child) ·      Ice-cream wooden sticks.(For each child) ·      Glue. (For each child) ·      Color pencils.
Supporting activities:
Ask the children to show me the letter of the week from the dice.	Encourage the children to search for number 3 around the classroom.		Sing the song	Stick 3 hearts on the wooden stick and try to write the numbers from 1 to 3 on each heart.
Whole 1: -     Ask the children to show me the letter of the week from the dice. -     Encourage the children to search for number 3 around the classroom. -      Sing the song Focus activity: -     Stick 3 hearts on the wooden stick and try to write the numbers from 1 to 3 on each heart.