Online Course on Google Classroom

 In this post I would like to share and write about the activities I have created on Google Classroom. One of the requirements of our Innovating Learning and Teaching coursework is to create an online course for students where workload for students is 6 hours.

I have created a class named “Reception Bears Preschool” in Google Classroom. This is the link to my Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/c/NDYxMzA0MDc2MDc0.   Class Code is "f7io2xo".

In my online course I have decided to create two topics “Maths” and “Phonics”. I have created assignments, one quiz assignment and materials looking at Early Years learning goals for 40-60 months (4-5 years old) old children.

As I work with young learners, and I don’t give homework to my students. Therefore, I have decided to use Google Classroom as Continuous Provision at Home Learning for my Reception students. Students can do it at their own convenient time. This is not compulsory for all the students. Continuous provision at home is good for parents who is interested and want to know what their child is learning at school and how well they are doing.

I have created three materials and two assignments under Phonics topic.

In Phonics, there are two materials related to Tricky words phase 2. In one of them students should listen to and sing “Tricky words rap song” to practice tricky words and then practice writing them on the worksheet. In the second activity, students should complete the Tricky words activity booklet. These activities will cover “Recognising and reading common words and familiar sentences” and “Writing and spelling some common words within simple sentences” learning objectives in International Early Years Curriculum.

Furthermore, there are 2 assignments and one material to practice writing and reading CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words. In the first assignment, students should practice writing and reading CVC words. In the second assignment, students should go to topmarks.co.uk website through the provided link and find the missing sounds. In the third material which is presentation, students should read CVC words and find the right picture. These activities will cover “Identifying and blending sounds in simple words” and “Using phonic awareness to write words” learning objectives in International Early Years Curriculum.

 

I have created two materials and two assignments under Maths topic.

In Maths, there is one material, YouTube song, about counting from one to ten forwards and backwards. Students should listen to the song and practice counting forwards and backwards. The next is an assignment where students should go through the link and practice their counting and matching skills numbers from one to ten. Through these, material and an assignment students will cover “Counting through play activities, action songs, rhymes and games” and “How numbers represent quantities and sets” learning objectives in International Early Years Curriculum.

Moreover, there is a material introduction of number “11”, where students will learn different ways of making number 11, number formation and they will be asked to complete some challenges related to the number. To strengthen this knowledge, I have assigned an assignment to practice number formation. Through these two activities students will cover “Exploring number in the environment and in real-life contexts” learning objective in International Early Years Curriculum.

These all activities I have assigned for students in Google Classroom will help students to strengthen their Phonic and Maths skills in order to be able to start reading, writing and recognizing numbers. All assigned resources will help to cover several learning objectives as well. Workload is around 6 hours, students can complete them at different time.

 

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