Lesson one

Date:  Friday, July 13^th

Teachers: Magaly Pacheco, Charlie Melara, Mauricio López

Topic: The numbers from 0 to 10

During this class, teachers played with  some little pieces of paper with numbers that had the name of students  behind. Also, they had students watching a video about the numbers and they sang a song. By the time teachers were trying to sing a song with students, we were really exited to see if songs were effective for a 40 minutes class, that students attend once a week, only. And, what  we could notice is that for this lesson the song didn´t work that much , probably because of the time. We have thought about including a song in our own lesson, but after seeing to this group,  we changed our minds and that is something  we learned from this class, that songs need more than 40 mins to be practiced with students and the same case for the videos, they need to be played more than once. Besides the song and the video and other activities like the one in which students played with a hat, the one that called our attention during this class was the activity about “throwing a dice”, because we  learned that children really love activities about throwing things and they also love being standing up. In this lesson, students weren´t that participative because they didn´t know each other, but some activities such as, throwing the dice made them participate and interact more. Finally, we were paying attention to every student behavior in the classroom, and most of them seemed to obey what the teacher said, but there was one four-year-old student named Hector Daniel Portillo, who seemed not to fit in the classroom. He was the youngest among the students , so we decided to focus our attention on his learning development.