First week of teaching...

This week I taught my first full maths lesson....I prepared a powerpoint to introduce the fractions topic using various shapes that I shaded in either 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4. I used the IWB to show this PP to the class and they reacted well to the topic, however the computer crashed half way through my introduction so we had to resort to the good old, whiteboard and pen!! Technology is great until it breaks down!! Luckily the teaching went so well, the teacher asked me to plan and teach the follow up lesson. The internet was my life-saver when if came to planning that evening, as I was able to adapt existing lesson plans and resources to suit my class. I plan to add these helpful websites to the WIKI.

I also had the chance to observe the class in an ICT lesson, in which they were learning to import pictures. I think this lesson drew my attention to the vast range of ICT skills children have, as some still are unable to log in correctly, whereas others produced a beautiful document within minutes. The pictures they imported were those they had taken with a digital camera in the previous literacy lesson as part of a combined literacty-ICT piece of work.

This week, I also had the opportunity to watch the children using electronic keyboards in their music lessons. This was a form of ICT that I had not previously thought of, yet the children are able to programme a sound/instrument choice and adapt their compositions using all sorts of background music or instrument sound.