Letter+Recognition+Stephanie

= Guessing The Letters =
 * Title: ||< **Guessing The Letters** ||
 * Subject: ||< **Literacy** ||
 * Grade: ||< **Preschool: Young Five's** ||
 * Time Frame: ||< **30-45 Minuets** ||
 * Essential Question || **If students play the Kahoot game, will they be able to the letters when on a letter hunt?** ||
 * Summary: ||< **Every child will have an iPad, with the iPads, we will use the resource, Kahoot, with uppercase and lower case alphabet letters.** ||
 * Objectives || * What GLCE's, Common Core Standards, or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet?
 * Early Learning Expectation: Viewing Images and Other Media Materials. Children begin to develop strategies that assist them in viewing a variety of images and multimedia materials effectively and critically.
 * What 21st Century Skill Objectives does this activity/Lesson include?
 * collaboration
 * critical thinking
 * decision making ||
 * Tasks: ||< **1)** Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here:
 * For this lesson, I will use the Kahoot website to create questions about the alphabet, "what is the uppercase letter of "k" look like?"**
 * Next, I will pass out the iPads to each child, having already registered each one to Kahoot.**
 * I will explain the directions to the children that I will read each question, they will select the correct answer based on the color of the answer and wait for everyone to respond. Once all responses are in, I will show them the correct answer.**
 * After having the children answer a few questions, I will take away some of the iPads, explain to them that they will take turns getting to pick the answer with one iPad and they have to collaborate with each other to come to an answer, this will be facilitated by an adult.**

How will you challenge strong students? How will you support struggling students? Why is this work important? relevant? Who is the audience for this project/lesson? How will you connect adults from outside of school to the lesson/project? How will the work be displayed publicly? How do you know students can "transfer" the learning to new situations? Will there be an opportunity for constructive feedback? and student engagement. Include any **student feedback** about the activity. ||
 * To build off of this, the next day, we will walk around the school with the iPads to take pictures of things that start with the letters we learned the day before**
 * After that, I will use the pictures the children took to put on a new Kahoot game for them to recognize the letters they found on our alphabet hunt.** ||
 * Personalization/Differentiation ||< How will you incorporate "student choice" into this project/lesson?
 * Having the children take their own pictures of what they want**
 * For the strong students, I would have them select the picture of something that starts with a letter instead of the capital or lower case recognition**
 * For struggling students, we would assist them and sit with them for each question, have them work with each other in their groups, send link home to parents so they could play at home** ||
 * Real-World Connection || What is the real world application for this project/lesson?
 * Have the children bring in something that starts with one of the letters from the game the next day.**
 * Having the children take their own pictures of what they want**
 * It allows the children to learn letter recognition in a fun and different way**
 * My young five's**
 * Send it home before and after so the parents can play with their children**
 * When the children take pictures of things that start with certain letters, we will put those on Kahoot for them to see and we can then play another game using their own pictures.** ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * I will observe them during the activity and look at their answers at the end of the day, try it again at the end of the month and compare the results.**
 * If they can identify an object and what letter it starts with**
 * Yes, at the end of the activity, I will ask the students what their favorite part of the activity was.** ||
 * Resources: ||< * **IPads and Kahoot website** ||
 * Examples: ||< * Links to teacher or student examples. ||
 * Reflection: || Reflect on the experience with specific details about the instructional outcome, pedagogy, tool effectiveness,