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.