Lesson Two - Recognising Digits

Date & Duration of lesson:		Number of students:	Age Range of students:
09-10-2012 / 45 minutes		20	4-5
Learning Outcomes: (Link to the ADEC K-5 curriculum document.)
Literacy:   -Listen to others with increasing attention.   -Participates in shared oral experiences.   Numeracy:   Recognise and count digits from 1-10.
Resources: (materials for each activity)
Activity 1: Part one: -A desert seen (outlined domes)..   -Colouring pencils.   -Glue sticks or liquid glue.   -Pencils.   -Camel prints.   -Paint brushes.	Supporting activity 1 (WHOLE):   -Flash cards of camel with humps (from 1-5).   -Wight smart board.   -The song “Alice the Camel”.    -A small board +markers.   -Pictures of (a camel, a desert seen and a plam).			Supporting activity 2 (2nd WHOLE):   3 Children +   Samples of children’s products of the desert seen.   -The song “Alice the Camel”.
Supporting activities differentiated to three ability levels: (where possible)
Description of whole group activity 1: Time_10-15___minutes___ Monitored by___MCT_______   -Greet the children- Today is…(Tuesday) and review the days of the week, months of the year and the classroom rules (good sitting , look at the teacher,…).   -Review the week’s outcomes.   -Use visual aids (pictures) of a camel, a desert and a palm tree to drill the related words (Camel, desert, palm) and ask children to repeat them.(By asking questions).   -Play the song “Alice the Camel” and ask children to sing along.   - Relate it to the song and present flash cards that have a camel image on and a digit which represent the number of humps on the camel.   - Guide children to participate in talking together about what number each has and to count humps on the camel clip art.   -Ask children to show the number which is played by the song.    Learning Outcome(s):   Literacy:   -Listen to others with increasing attention.   -Participates in shared oral experiences.     Differentiation: (Mainly by asking questions):   Still in the assessment process.
Small Group Activities: Time__20 minutes____
Description of activity 1: PART ONE: Monitored by____MCT______   The aim of this activity is to create a desert seen using the desert-dome outline  and to identify (desert, camel and palm) from some presented pictures.   The teacher will model the activity by colouring the printed camel, put some glue on the domes and with the teacher’s assistance put some sand on the top.    After that the children will be able to place the camel by gluing it, then to draw a tree or palm depending on their artistic senses.   Also, the children will be able to complete the seen by drawing a sun and colouring the sky.   Finally, the teacher may ask children to write their names on the back of their work if they can (and she will dote their names if they can’t).   Some guided question my occure during this activity such as:   -What colour is the camel? -Where dose the camel lives? -What fruit comes from palm tree? (A picture may be exposed as a clue).   Learning Outcome(s):   Literacy: -Listen to others with increasing attention.   -Participates in shared oral experiences.   Differentiation:   High: Still in the assessment process.   Mid: Still in the assessment process.   Low: Still in the assessment process.
Description of closing activity: Monitored by__MCT________   -The teacher asks the children who did the activity with her to get up and show their works and talk about it. (3 children).   -The teacher gathers children in the circle area and sing the song “ Alice the Camel”.   -The teacher praises the children who took part on this activity with stickers.   Learning Outcome(s): Literacy: -Listen to others with increasing attention.   -Participates in shared oral experiences.   Differentiation: High: Still in the assessment process. Mid: Still in the assessment process. Low: Still in the assessment process.
General Comments: (including:  documented evidence of learning; comments from MST, MCT and/or TA as appropriate)   This lesson was already presented on the previous day. However, most of the children my forgot some vocabularies such as (camel and desert). The two new elements of this lesson are the word (palm as in palm tree) and the song “Alice the Camel”.
Recommendations / future personal targets / areas of focus for next week   It is recommended to model the activity for the children step by step in order to avoid any mistakes in the final product. Because the children may understand the second language difficultly and because it may take them longer time to complete that task. Occasionally, some Arabic may be used during all phases of the lesson.