Lesson Plan 1: SH and CH Digraphs
This lesson was for my first-grade RTII class. Within this class, my job was to go over one main concept with the students and teach it in many different ways. While the overall concept was the same for the entire duration of my student teaching (digraphs), I was able to go over different digraph skills with the students each week. This week’s main focus was introducing students to the sounds of sh and ch. I started with a video on ch/sh digraphs for the day’s lesson. Some of the digraph sounds were a review to the students, while the sh/ch sounds they were learning for the very first time. I then pulled up an interactive presentation, where the students had to come up to the board to underline the correct letters once the class had identified the picture. This activity kept the students engaged and helped them practice their digraph sounds.
After finishing the lesson, I broke my students up into center groups and gave them directions for their next task. When doing the group work, I made sure that some centers were more geared towards independent work while others were more team-oriented tasks. I then proceeded to have each group rotate every ten minutes until we hit the thirty-minute mark to end class. I had one center that was cut and pasted, another that used scrabble tiles, and my final one utilized ice cream cones. The kids ended up loving the lesson, and after this being the first of many lessons to come, I still think it is my favorite out of everything I have taught.
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Lesson Plan 2: Making Ten
This lesson was by far my favorite math lesson to teach. Together, my first-grade class worked on learning about place values in two-digit numbers. I started by teaching my students in their curriculum book. We began the lesson by watching the corresponding video to their lesson and then moved into our guided and independent practice problems.
After the students finished up their practice problems in their book, I gave them an additional practice worksheet and then divided the students into centers. Some of my students got to work on the smart board and digitally break their tens apart, while my other students worked to separate the tens through the use of tens blocks and dry-erase worksheets. When organizing my groups, I made sure to include different learner levels so that each group was divided fairly. I also walked around the classroom and had each student demonstrate what they were doing as they worked in their centers.
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