Week Three Reflection

This week Im going to write my reflection on my mini lesson with Glasses. He's one of my favorite guys in the class. He's funny and is usually well behaved, but when we get to crazy he can start acting a little wild. I did my mini lesson with him on sorting colors. We went in the kitchen room and at first I was going to do a money sorting lesson with him, but that didnt work out.
There were all bills from one dollar to one hundred dollars and I got five of each out and put them in a little pile in front of him. There was a wood box with a bunch of different sections with one different bill in each and I told him to put the right bill in each. He would pick up a bill look at it and then hover the bill over the different section because he didnt know which one to put it in. The problem with the activity was that Glasses is called Glasses because he has probably inch thick glasses lenses. He wasnt able to see the numbers on the bills and was just guessing which spot the bill should go in. I could tell that he was getting frustrated and upset because he would look at the bill, look at me, then get this really pitifull "Help me" look on his face and would start guessing. After he tried two or three different bills, he knocked down the pile of bills. I took it as a sign, and just told him that we were going to do a different activity. He was confused but I m sure he was relieved. We deleted the video and moved on.
I sat and looked around for something else that we could do that he would be able to do. I saw another sorting activity except with different shaped and colored chips. I brought them to the table and told him to sort them according to the color. I put one of each in each little section and he went to town. He was flying through the activity and having a lot of fun while doing it. I have never seen him be so silly and crazy in my whole time working with that class. He got through the pile in no time, was high fived, and went into the other room for the movie.
I wanted to do my reflection on this mini lesson because I noticed something between the two activities. His confidence level. When he had no clue what he was doing and wasnt doing good at all he was getting really upset and frustrated. He was not having a good time at all. But when we switched to the colors he was having so much fun because he knew that he was doing really good. This is relevant not only for a EC class but for all kids. When Im doing something that Im good at, I will have fun with. But if Im not doing good, then I will get frustrated and upset.
I think that it was great that he was having so much fun with the chip activity because it was so easy for him, but I think that it might have been too easy. Something I could improve on the next time I do a mini lesson with him could be not only doing colors, but shapes also. Something that makes it easy enough to have fun, but not easy enough to be too easy.