IWB in a maths lesson for reception and year one

My first maths lesson went well. I was teaching sorting as in for example, if you have two hoops and each with a different label on it, blue and red, then the children would have to put the correct coloured cube in the right hoop. I practised this on the IWB, where I let the children come and drag the cubes in to the right hoop. I also practised recognising what different shapes were. In one example, I had written circles and triangles in one hoop and pentagons and rectangles in another. Outside the hoops were a range of shapes, including these shapes and others. they then had to drag the appropriate shapes into the right hoops, leaving the other shapes outside the hoop. This went down well and they seemed to really enjoy it although some of the children need to practise putting their finger firmly on the board as some of them were having problems dragging.