Drama Lesson

I tried to start implementing creative drama in my teaching. This was the first time for the students to act out an English story and as for the first drama lesson for them it works well.

 

 

Last Week of TP

This week every one was busy preparing for the national day, all my student were participating so they were practicing most of the time.

I tried to do one creative lesson related to the national day. The activity was making the UAE flag which they will use it in their show.

The lesson went very well, it was using their finger to print the colors of the flag. The students loved the activity  and they were motivated and engaged.  This activity  helped me to assess the children if they know the colors or not, most of them knew which color they should put.

Reflective journal on the Jelly lesson

Literacy lesson ( Making Jelly, /j/ sound)

The lesson was in KG2 class with 21 students divided in two groups according to their learning ability. This week the students were starting to learn (j) sound.

 The preparation were very good, all the materials for the whole and the small groups where ready. The activities where related to the aim of the lesson and they helped to achieve the learning outcomes. Using more creative arts was useful, the children love the activity and they enjoy it because they were busy making new thing and they were excited to see the results.

The whole part was simple, reviewing the alphabet sounds and actions because the children used to that after they learn a new sound. The new thing for them was using the smart board, it have benefits such as attracting and all the children were able to see the pictures. In addition, using the actions to learn sounds is good because it helps the students to remember the sound better.

However, the lesson could be better if I asked one child each time to come out and do the action for his friends and make the sound to see if the students know the sounds or nor, especially for these who were moving and not participating with the others. I could ask the child to come out and do the actions with me to motivate him to participate.

Making jelly was new thing for the children, usually they don’t do these stuff in the class. The students were happy to start and make their jelly. In general the activity worked well, all the students were engaged and want to finish their task. The activity could be better if they did all the parts by themselves from putting the jelly in the cups to putting it in the fridge. Also it could be better if it was group working such as having big container and all the children work together to make the jelly.

Second Week / Second part of TP

The first creative lesson was creating Bee hat and Frog hat for (b sound, f sound).

Each child can choose either to make frog or bee hat.

At the beginning I put the activity in two tables one for the frog and the other is for the bee. It was difficult to manage two tables in one time because the activity needs modeling and the children kept asking for my help, for that I took the activity and put it in one table this helped me to control the children.

The second activity was making Jelly for /j/ sound . The students love the activity and they were excited to make it.

First Week / Second Part of TP

During this week I taught only two days because on Sunday both my class teachers were absent , in Wednesday it was a trip to Al Ain palace and Thursday is a holiday.

For the two days , I tried to start implementing creative activates in the classroom.

The first lesson was numeracy (differences and similarities)

for the whole group I used different shapes , colors and children photos. Using these materials I asked the students to select the different shape or photo between 3 or 4 other things.

for the small activity time , the students choose 3 same pictures of fruits and 1 different then they stick it , color it and made a bracelet from it.

Evaluation :

During the whole group, using children pictures is useful because it helps to grasp their attentions. Also asking the students to come out to the board to answer and choose who is siting nicely.

The tidy up time improved , using the crown works very well with the students and motivate them to clean and sit fast.

However, Some children faced problem with word different and similar because it was new for them.  However using drilling and repeating was useful because  these words where important for the small activity groups which worked very well and the children enjoy doing it.

I need more interesting activities during the whole such as stories , songs ( I could use the smart board) and let students interact with it. Also I need new strategy to make students lesson to me when they lose the attention such as clapping. 

I need to make the activity more challenging for some students ( differentiate the activity), because some of them get the idea easily and did it quickly while the others not.

 

The second lesson ( Literacy , /o/ sound)

The lesson went well,

The small activity was creating octopus using different materials. Students loved the activity and they were motivated to make their own octopus.

My first day in the Kindergarten

Hi everyone

My first day in the school was good, I knew the teachers and the principal in the school so that wasn’t a problem for me. First of all, I discus what I am doing in the TP and my action research topic with Ms. Sally which is the head of the English teachers. After that I met my MST teacher Ms. Nicole and I explain for here that I am doing 50% of her teaching and we discuss the weekly plan but until now I didn’t discuss my research topic with her because that day she was busy with parents.

On Sunday I did one lesson in numeracy and it was about sorting things. The lesson was OK however I faced a problem teaching them because I don’t know  their names and the teaching style they are used too. I think we need few days to observe before we start teaching. Also in this day my teacher was busy and in Monday which is today we had a trip to Bwadi mall.  So actually I didn’t have a normal day until now !!!

Interview questions

Interview questions

 

1-      Do you think using creative art for learning is effective ? and how?

2-      Do you use creative art for teaching? How often? And when?

3-      What are the types of creative art that you use and for which subjects?

4-      How do you encourage children to learn throw creative art?

5-      Are the children used to creative art or do you face some problems?

OBSERVATION SCHEDULE

OBSERVATION SCHEDULE

Name:	Time:
Data:	Class:
Topic:
Aim: I want to observe the classroom teacher teaching students using creative art. I want to know in which way she use it and how does she explain it for children. what kind of problems arise.

Pre-task:

Task:

Post-task:

Other comments:

First Readings of Literature

Name:    Huda Sultan                                                 Date:  19/9/2012                              Source Number: (1)

Reference (APA): ·         Eliason, C. & Jenkins, L. (2008). A Practical Guide to Early Childhood Curriculum. New Jersey: Pearson Merrill/Prentice Hall

Summary: This book include one section about creative art and how to use it in early childhood learning.  In addition,  the book includes different strategies of how to use creative art in the classroom also there are  different definitions for it from different researchers. The book also includes the advantages and the benefits of using creative art for learning.

Evaluation:  (connected to Questions 1 to 5 above) I think this book is useful. Most of the quote are useful and meaningful and I think I will use them and they shows the author opinion about using creative art.  It is easy to read and understand and there are many other people or researchers opinion about the topic in this book.

Notes (could include specific quotes) “ creativity is the ability to invent or make something new, using one’s own skills without the specific use of patterns or models’(Mitchell as cited in Eliason&Jenkins. 2008. P.375). I think this quote could be useful as definition for creative art.

Cross References

Introduction

My name is Huda, I'm 22 years old from the UAE.  I am studying in AL Ain Women and this is my final year. For this year I am doing a big research about a topic that I need to choose and to apply it in the schools.

 I think this year is very important I need to improve my teaching strategies because I will not have the chance to  practice teaching after this year. I have several goals such as getting ILTES band 6.5 and to expand my GPA to be 3 also I want to improve my English and to feel the happens when I will finish my 6000 words research.