One major problem we ran into while creating this lesson, was that the website we chose, http://coloritbynumbers.com/, was not cooperating the day we were going to present. It would only allow us to color two areas at a time and when we went to color the third area, it would erase a colored area. We were upset because we wanted to show the class how interactive the website was and how students would thoroughly enjoy coming up to the board to color in the elephant picture. However, we were able to fix this by printing the images out and had students come up to the ELMO projector to color it in!
Everyone in our class thought our lesson was great. Students would definitely be engaged and want to come up to the board (or paper at the ELMO projector in our case) and color in front of the class. Having students complete something together in front of the class, shows how collaborative students can be!
At my placement, my host teacher was interested in my lesson and asked me to teach it to the class. This was a great experience and I found that it was challenging for the 1st graders. While it seems simple to realize that 2+3=5 therefore 3+2=5, but the students were still struggling with it. In this situation, I had the students grab number lines that allowed for them to count to see how to get the answer. The students also had to pay close attention to whether the equation was addition or subtraction. The students were able to color the image on their own because they had coloring utensils in front of them.
There are pictures below that I took of the 1st graders in my placement, completing the worksheet!
Everyone in our class thought our lesson was great. Students would definitely be engaged and want to come up to the board (or paper at the ELMO projector in our case) and color in front of the class. Having students complete something together in front of the class, shows how collaborative students can be!
At my placement, my host teacher was interested in my lesson and asked me to teach it to the class. This was a great experience and I found that it was challenging for the 1st graders. While it seems simple to realize that 2+3=5 therefore 3+2=5, but the students were still struggling with it. In this situation, I had the students grab number lines that allowed for them to count to see how to get the answer. The students also had to pay close attention to whether the equation was addition or subtraction. The students were able to color the image on their own because they had coloring utensils in front of them.
There are pictures below that I took of the 1st graders in my placement, completing the worksheet!
The students are seen with number lines, and some used cardboard dividers to encourage them to keep their eyes on their own papers.
*Students faces are not photographed for privacy
pictures were taken with my phone*
*Students faces are not photographed for privacy
pictures were taken with my phone*