SMARTBOARD LESSONRachel Murray

MY SMARTBOARD LESSON• The SMARTBoard lesson I have selected is the “Morning Calendar”. I have

seen a similar concept used without technology. Students come in and do calendar work as well as work on some basic skills.

• http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=a6ac0d96-4bd3-4125-a616-2ae6677ea4fa

TARGET LEARNERSI would use this lesson for kindergarten. This has mostly math skills and some language arts skills. This calendar work would be done every morning as the one of the first activities of the day.

ATTENDANCEWhen students would walk into the classroom, they would drag their name from the “home” column to the “school” column. I would then use this to mark attendance. It lets students distinguish their name as well as gives them responsibility.After this, we would mark the total students, absent and present students to practice math skills.

ATTENTION GETTERAfter all of the students have gotten to school, marked their name and done any morning activities, I would sing this song in order to get all of the students attention and so they know that it is time for school to begin.

Found online at TeachersPayTeachers.comhttps://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Calendar-Songs-FREEBIE-244104

UNIVERSAL DESIGNThis activity uses Universal design by…

*incorporating different styles of teaching and learning*math and counting work, writing as well as singing and

listening*utilizing different resources

*SMARTBoard, paper and pencil, observation

It also allows students to freely ask for help from other students at the table. This increases interaction between a variety of peers.

CALENDAR WORKA little later, we would work in the calendar tab.I would have a helper to correctly identify and write the date as well as announcing any special occasions (birthdays, picture days, etc.).Then as a class we would do the tabs about yesterday, today and tomorrow at the bottom.All of this will allow my students to be better acquainted with the calendar.

WEATHERAfter this I would have my weather person help me identify the current weather. This helps build science concepts later on. The we would mark on the bottom what the weather was like.

PATTERNS AND MATHThis would be the final slide. Everyday I would create a new pattern on top and select a student to drag the next appropriate shape into the space.I would use the counting blocks below to count days of school and we would drag the appropriate number of blocks, rods and cubes. For example the 47th day would have 0 blocks, 4 rods and 7 cubes.

FOLLOWING ALONGI found this calendar journal on TeachersPayTeachers.com for free. On some days, I would have students follow along on this calendar sheet. They can document all of the calendar work and practice without being the calendar helper.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Calendar-Journals-164749

November 2, 2016

10

2 16

47

740

sunny

Rachel