Smartboard Lesson

Unfortunately, my assignment for this week is more of a what I would do if I had access to one! Best practice for preschool means limited use of screens, but a lesson I would do with students is sorting/classification. This skill aids in being able to make and recognize patterns, which are a large part of both mathematics and reading later on.

I would have three columns, plus a "storage" box on the bottom of the screen. In the "storage" box would be shapes (circle, triangle, square). In the first lesson, children would have to take turns sorting into the three shapes. In the next lesson, the shapes could be different colors and children would need to sort into the colors. Another lesson could involve sorting into sizes. Yet another lesson may be just sorting into upper- and lowercase letters.

Really the possibilities are endless. I love that it is versatile in that it can be a quick large group lesson, small group, or transition activity. Smartboard Exchange had many of these types of activities for free download back when I was teaching kindergarten. On the other hand, none of these would take very much time to prepare, and once done and saved, can be utilized over and over.

Here is a link to a Google Drawing of what it could look like.