Second activity ( 3D shapes ‘ Pyramid’ )
This week for the numeracy lessons, students are taking 3D shapes. One lesson that I did was about the pyramid so the activity was making pyramid using paper.
The high group abilities did the activity well while the low group ability faced a problem and only one child could make the pyramid. For the other students in the group it was difficult for them so I tried to do break the instruction of the activity into small steps and I modeled each one of them and make sure that each child did it. However, some student couldn’t do it, so mw and the English teacher helped them in sticking their pyramids.
It seems that the activity was difficult for this group and some of the students fine motor skills are not ready yet for such activities. Next time, I will try to provide an activity that support and develop their fine motor skills because they need more work on them.
I liked your activity and the final product =)
ReplyDeleteMaybe the activity need to be differentiated to match all children’s abilities but I think that its good to give the children challengeable activities
This sounded a good activity and I think, too, that it's good to challenge the children sometimes. How can we know what may be too difficult for them without challenging them? The alternative is to always prepare learning experiences that are too easy and with their abilities. Besides, sometimes, some children may surprise us.
ReplyDeleteIt is a good activity and maybe next time you can see where is the difficult and try to support it by changing steps in the activity or something you feel it will make it doable for some children.
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