Another activity that I did for my action research and it was observed by my mentor teacher was the UAE's flag hand print. First of all I thought of doing it on the ordinary way were each child put paint on his hand and then print it on the sheet but I felt there will be no cooperation and interaction between students. Therefore, I decided to do it in pairs, I called two children and each child had to paint the UAE flag colors on his friend's hand and then the other child paint for that child. I did this activity outside and children were very happy to do it there. I was amazed how the children were talking and when a child put a wrong color on his friend's hand he was correcting for him and then they saw a house in front of the school were the flag was on the roof, they were looking and copying the colors.
They were discussing and talking about the colors. The activity went smoothly and I think the reason is that they had clear instructions, I modeled the activity with one child and showed them how they should work with each other's and be good friends and the new place played effective element in this activity. Another reason why I think the children cooperate well in this activity because the activity cannot be done individually they understood that they have to paint each other's hands and help each others to put the colors in the right place and print their hands.
In future lessons I may do pairs activities in the same way and link it with numeracy or literacy. In my opinion, for this age group children we should not just provide activities and expect them to work cooperatively, they should have clear activities that encourages cooperative learning.
Wow.. mashalla <3 I love it
ReplyDeleteYes I think most of schools are thinking of the ordinary way to do it, which is individualy but your ideas is awesome! I’m learning alot from you
I like what you are doing and achieving... keep going =)
Hi Marwoonee,
ReplyDeleteI really Really loved the idea of this activity and I will try to omplement it with my class next week. Your lesson and activities always tregers me to have a look at them because of you inovative ideas that are fun to children and adults.
Good luck dear,
Wooow I liked the new way of applying the national day activity and how you made them work collaboratively. I was thinking of activity for next week which will be A3 sheet that has UAE map and let a group of students to put their hands on the paints and paste it so I may add what you have done which each child will put the color for his friend. I really liked it and I think your students either. also I liked the last sentence that you wrote "for this age group children we should not just provide activities and expect them to work cooperatively, they should have clear activities that encourages cooperative learning".
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea, Marwa, and the pictures - especially the top one are wonderful. I hope you arranged for some serious hand cleaning afterwards!
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