last week "literacy lesson"

The second lesson was literacy lesson and the aim of the lesson was responding to short simple questions. The theme of that week was the national day so I asked lots of questions about the UAE and the seven cities to make it link with the objective. Also I introduced the life in the UAE in the past and in the present. I used different pictures on the laptop to show the difference of our life before and now and I tried to elicit the information from the students. It was difficult to the students to learn about past and now in second language however what I noticed that they understood what I was asking about and they were answering however they were answering in Arabic and what I had to do is to say it in English.

What I did for the focus activity was something different than the arts activity that we have done before. They did this time national day card which I prepared it and they had to decorate it. I prepared some pictures that they can stick such as sheikh Khalifa and the logo of the UAE which is the falcon. Also I printed the word " I love ……. " for the low and the medium ability and what they have to do is to write the UAE or copy it however the high ability group wrote I let them to write the whole sentence. Moreover, I let the students to draw the flag and I asked them some questions about what they are doing and what the color of the flag. The whole lesson went very well and they were listening and responding however what I have to change next time is make the 1^st whole section like a conversation between me and the students rather than asking lots of questions. What I used to do is just asking and waiting for the answers and that should come later in the middle of the week to check their understanding. And what I have to do more is to start the lesson talking and discussing in the first two days especially when I want to introduce new lesson.

last week "numeracy lesson"

In the last week of my teaching practice the lessons were complicated and not fit deeply with the objectives as usual and that because of the theme of the week which was about the national day.

 

During the 1st whole while I was using the small activity about joining two groups and recognizing the numbers.

I did numeracy lesson about joining two groups of objects to show addition up to 7 and recognize the numbers from 1 to 10. I did small activity that match with the aim during the whole and it went very well and the students were participating and responding while the focus activity in the corner was not matching the aim because of the national day theme which we had to do activities about it. During the whole I had three groups on small cartoon board with the two signs which is plus and equal to show addition and to teach the students these two signs. I used small pictures of the UAE flag and small flash cards of numbers from 1 to 10. I asked the students to join the two groups of UAE flag and to put the numbers under the groups.

On the other hand, the focus activity that the students had is a template of the UAE map and they had to print the flag color on it. I tried to let the students to count while they were printing. It went well however it was hard to keep my eyes on all of the 4 students and see if they were counting or not. Because of that, next time I may ask the students after they finish printing how many red color or green color they had print on their map and have in front of them the numbers and they can point on the number that they print so we can match it with the second aim which is recognizing the numbers.

This is the focus activity that the students did. they were printing the color of the UAE flag on the UAE map.