STEAM Lesson

This lesson is another that I am proud of. The children absolutely loved it because they got to paint!! You give a kindergartener some paint and they'll love you forever. Okay, maybe not, but they really did enjoy the lesson. The objective was for them to push and pull, which is a component of a science standard. I threw in some numbers and counting and connected it to math. For technology they simply uploaded a picture of their masterpiece to their class profiles. For engineering they designed their art!! It was actually the most simple lesson I created, and it seemed to be the most fun!

Here are a few examples of the artwork the children created! We used red and yellow paint which created an orange color. We used small pieces of cardboard squares to push and pull paint. I wish I could share the pictures of how much fun the children had while completing this lesson. I cannot wait to further my experience as an educator in my upcoming semesters!!

Phonemic Awareness Lesson

This was probably the simplest lesson I completed this semester. It was extremely beneficial and important though.

This was the set-up of my lesson. I used elkonin boxes and play-doh. I am aware that print is not a component of phonemic awareness, but my cooperating teacher asked that I incorporate them in some way because she wanted the children to get familiar with putting the letters with the sounds. As we sounded out our words, we would touch the play-doh that corresponded with the sound. The children loved getting to use the play-doh and I saw that it helped them to determine the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of words. This is often a difficult task for a kindergartener and somehow the play-doh and the elkonin boxes made it easier to understand.

Math Lesson

Okay, now this lesson is probably the one I am most proud of for this semester. It took a good bit of planning and a good bit of work to prepare, but oh my gosh it was so worth it. I'll get to the point!! My math lesson was given just a few days before Halloween, so I had to make that connection! I printed, laminated, and cut out like 200 pieces of these pretend pieces of candy. Here take a look!

So that was my kitchen floor after cutting them all out... I also had the children decorate their own little candy bags (a paper sack) to use for my lesson. I can't upload a picture of the bags because they loved them so much, I let them keep them and I do not have a picture without the children in them. I will however show you what the inside of the bags looked like.

I had the children count out 10 pieces of the pretend candy and place it in their bags. You would have thought that it was real candy. I mean they loved it! Because of this I let them keep everything and even brought them a couple of real pieces of candy to go with it. This lesson was so much fun because the children enjoyed it and because of this I am going to be sure to create more lessons like this in the future!