Week 6 reflection

This week I continued my unit on shapes. The students learned circles, triangles, ovals, rectangles, and squares. Each day I read them a book on shapes for my action research. After the story, they participated in hands on activities with manipulatives that had them demonstrate their understanding of the different shapes.

We worked on drawing triangles, squares, rectangles, ovals and circles which they did a job on. I was surprised how quickly they were able to identify the shapes. I used the interactive SmartBoard and had the students come up and "connect the dots" of different shapes. They also had to tell me the name of the shape that they were connecting the dots to. It was a great informal assessment to see if they had any confusions or misunderstandings. The students enjoyed coming up and using the SmartBoard. I am planning on using it in many more lessons since they did very well using it.

The students also completed some finger painting activities that demonstrated their understandings of what shapes look like and the names of the shapes.

Overall, it was a great week! The students did a terrific job participating in the activities and lessons. I was very impressed.