Learn the " colour names"

 Videos used to introduce the lesson. There are two videos for the lesson introduction. Asked students to guess the topic for the lesson after watching the video.

                                                     Video used for lesson development

Videos for their colouring activity ( Listen and colour - workbook page number 19)

Closure - asked students to practice and sing along with this video for fun and to learn the colour names.

Corrected work of the students

Reflection

On 2^nd of July I had English lesson with class PP C children. The topic for the lesson taught was on colours. The teaching was done through Wechat. As discussed and decided during the meeting that classes PP to III should conduct the teaching through Wechat. There are total of twenty eight children with sixteen boys and thirteen girls.  However, teaching was not a problem for me but due to the Covid-19 pandemic all the teaching learning being on-line, all the concept had to be disseminated through video lessons. So I faced a lot of challenges especially in creating a video clip to explain the concept to the children at their level. I even had to record the songs from the YouTube using X-recorder because when I shared the link directly the children shared their concern for not being able to know how to go about and open the link shared by me so I had to record and send it. On top of that, as my school resides inside the RBP campus and majority of the student’s father being police personnel, they were send on duty due to the pandemic and majority of the mothers being illiterate it was a challenge to guide their child too.  

Actually, I have chosen this topic for my blogger though it was taught in the month of July because I had to prepare my own version of explanation using a video recording and editing app in order to give the concept to the children. The lesson objective demanded only seven colours to be taught (red, blue, green, yellow, black, white and brown) whereby I had to prepare one video to teach the name of those colours. It was a difficult journey for me but I had an enriching experience. But my hard work was paid off later when majority of the children were able to complete the activity without any difficulties.

 The students liked the videos sent to them and they enjoyed those videos especially the one which I have made for the lesson development.  Students shared that they were overjoyed to hear my voice in that video clip. I was happy that use of ICT made my teaching learning more effective. Most of the children were able to follow the instructions correctly given in the video and could complete the activity correctly which made me satisfied as I was able to fulfil my set objectives. Children shared that whenever they encountered problem in recognizing the colours they watched the videos time and again which helped them to complete their work smoothly. They also shared that they liked and enjoyed the colour song used during introduction and closure. On other hand a very few students were not able to complete their work correctly because of too many instructions given in their activity part. When children were asked to do the correction by following the instructions one by one given in the video, they were able to do the work correctly. Whereby the teacher need not have to repeat the instruction again.

After using ICT in my lesson I came to know that teachers have important roles to play at all stages of lesson process - before the lessons begins, during the lesson itself and after the lesson has concluded. So, till now I have been thinking that integrating ICT will lessen the role of teachers but it turns out to be just the opposite: Teachers have even greater responsibility for managing their classes and planning effective instruction.