2nd week "literacy lesson"

In the second week we had a new theme which was about seasons and it’s the first time that they took something about that even in KG1 they didn’t learn about it. So it was big challenge to me to introduce something new and hard especially in the UAE we have only two seasons.

                                                                                                                 This is the pictures of the seasons and the weathers that I used in the lesson.

At the beginning of the lesson I used pictures of the 4 seasons with different weathers. My aim for the second week was to let the students to identify two seasons especially summer and winter and know the different weathers. I used some clothes to explain what we feel in summer and what we feel in winter and what kind of clothes we wear in each seasons.

The problem that I faced was losing the students attention about the lesson because I was focusing on how to deliver the new information to them. I was translating a lot which I didn’t like especially in the first day so in the second day I thought of solving the problem by spend more time in the whole and using more of pictures to make the listen interesting. Because of that, I lost the students attention which I noticed later that what I have done is wrong especially they are kids and their attention span is short. Later on, during the activities I figure out that the students may get the concept while they are working or talking with their friends. Moreover, they may get the information later on at the end of the lesson during the plenary or at the end of the week.

Next time I will spend short time in the whole even if they didn’t get what I was aimed for and I will send them to do the activity and during that time they may understand something because during the activities the students may understand more while they are on the carpet which I forgot this point totally. After that in the plenary time I could revise with them what we had started with however with different way.