Task 9b: Integrated subject areas

Concept	Activity	Language
Parts of the story	Students arrangement the events of the story	Watch, sing, draw
The sound of alphabet	Students listen, read and write the alphabet	Sing a song
States of matter (Solid, Liquid, Gas)	Students went outside the classroom to the garden.	They use the senses
Body parts	Students watch a video and start draw and arrangement the parts.	Sing a song, draw

Observation Task 9a: Activities in a specialist class

Activity	Individual/group/class	Purpose	Is it teacher directed or does the child choose the activity
Read a story and teach them Parts  of the story.  (English and Arabic)	Class and   Individual	*Learn parts of the story. * Share their thoughts  with the whole class. *Set on the Hot Seat and get asked about the story.	Teachers
After the story (Centers)	Class     and   Group	*Draw the characters of the story. * Arrangement the story events.	Teachers
Set on the carpet	Individual	Each student shares his/her work with others.	children
Reading books (English and Arabic)	Individual	*Learn to read by their own. * Try to know what the story is about.	children
Science (States of matter)  In English and Arabic.	Class	Learn the states of matter which they (Solid, Liquid, Gas)	Teachers

Observation Task 8: Activity types

       
                                                                                            

Activity	Individual/group/class	Purpose	Teacher directed/child’s choice
Read a story and teach them Parts  of the story	Class	*Learn parts of the story. * Share their thoughts  with the whole class.	Teacher
After the story (Centers)	Group	*Draw the characters of the story. * Arrangement the story events.	Teacher
Set on the carpet	Individual	Each student share his/her work with others.	children
Reading books	Individual	*Learn to read by their own. * Try to know what the story is about.	children
Science (States of matter)	Class	Learn the states of matter which they (Solid,Liquid,Gas)	Teacher

Observation Task 7: Classroom management and teacher talk

Beginning and ending the day
Punctuality at the beginning of the lesson	The teacher always arrives before the student and she always on time.
Teacher’s response to those who are late. What does she say?	She use positive reinforcement by Asking him/her what the reason for the delay or already she knowledge that the bus is delayed in reaching.
Starting the day: what does the teacher say? do?	She start the day by letting the students sing the day song and then she review the last day lesson.
Lining up : location	She always let her students line up inside class to tell them where they are going and arrangement to make them arrive the place is meant together to not disturb the other classes.
Teacher instructions for lining up: what does she say? do?	She tells them to line up then students start sing a song (I am ready).
Ending the day: what does the teacher say? /do?	AT the last 30 minutes she show the students a film about the story that they took, then she tell them to line up  and get ready to go home.
Moving
Moving the children for an activity. What does she say? do?	While they are in the carpet the teacher choose students and put them in groups.
Moving the children: how do they respond?	They response immediately.
Misbehavior
What was the learner doing?	Some of the students talk to her/his friend next  him/her , laugh and don't disturb the lesson for their class mates.
What did the teacher say? do?	The Teacher talk quietly with him/her to calm down and if he/she didn't be quiet she stare  at him/her seriously  and if this does not help she put for him/her a sad face in the daily evaluation panel.
How did the child respond:	The student become quiet to make teacher wipe the sad face of the daily evaluation panel.
How does the teacher stop the children at the end of an activity? What does she say? do?	She tell them its time to clean up, then the students start sing cleaning song which is (Clean Up) while they are cleaning up their places.