Asignment #4: Smart Board Activity

For this assignment I found a Smart Board Lesson on vowels that is perfect for kindergartners learning their alphabet or first graders needing further work or review. Click here to check out this fun lesson .

This lesson works for Reading EALR 1.1 "use word recognition skills and strategies to read and comprehend text." Through vowel recognition and phonetic awareness of vowels students will be on their way to learning how to read.

This lesson also fulfills NETS 1 by helping students to become familiar with and eventually proficient in Smart Board technology.

This activity goes through several activities relating to vowels. The class begins by rolling a die on the screen. This die contains the vowels a, e, i, o and u. Whatever vowel pops up the entire class sounds out. During this section students will be able to come to the Smart Board and take turns "rolling" the die.

The next screen then asks the students what the letters on the die had in common. There is a space provided where the teacher can write in "they are all vowels."

Next students practice recognizing which vowel goes with a sound. By clicking a question mark a vowel is spoken, students then pick which vowel presented matches the sound. If they pick correctly they will hear a different animal noise.

Next students will click on shapes which will then say a vowel out loud. They will then write the vowel in the space provided.

Finally students match animals to which vowel is the first letter in their name.

These slides are all provided in the download, however I rearranged them for ease and added my own animal images to to the final slide.

The class will participate as a group on this lesson. Each student will have a chance to come up and interact with the Smart Board. I will assess learning through their interactions and through further class work on vowels.

I would love to have a Smart Board in my classroom. Its potential in an early elementary classroom is incredibly vast. By allowing total interaction the students will be able to be engaged on new levels. The Smart Board has the potential to work for all learning styles, through seeing, hearing, drawing,and writing all within a single lesson. Even in the presentation of new material, students will be able to manipulate a lesson, interact with it and have ownership of what and how the material is being presented.