K-2 Connections Sampler

Conceptually based instruction leads students through the Three Stages of Learning: Concrete , Representational , and finally Abstract (CRA) . 30 K I N D E R G A R T E N Lesson Plan Chapter 4Kindergarten 75 75 ©MathTeachersPress, Inc.Reproduction by anymeans is strictly prohibited. Name ________________________________________________________________ Towers of OneMore ASTAIRCASEOFTOWERS This game is for 2 children. Each pair will need 100 interlocking cubes and 2 sets of numeral cards 1-10. Shuffle the cards and place them face down between the 2 players. Players take turns selecting a card and building a tower tomatch the number selected.After each play, the card is returned to the bottom of the deck. The object of the game is to build the towers from 1 to 10 in order. The first player to complete the staircase is the winner. If a card is selected for a tower the child has already built, the child loses that turn.After all cards have been selected once, the cards in the pilemay be shuffled and used again. ONEMORE Hide from 1 to 9 cubes in random order under margarine tubs. Hold up 1 tub and ask the students towrite the number of cubes they see under the tub. Place 1more cube under the tub.Ask the students to write the number of cubes under the tub now. Lift up the tub.Ask a volunteer to count the cubes. If childrenmake a mistake, have them erase their answer andwrite the correct answer. Objective: To order the numbers 1 to 10. Materials: Interlocking cubes, number stair, Numeral Cards 1-10, cubes andmargarine tubs One Bear withBees inHisHair, Wood, Jakki FishEyes, Ehlert, Lois OneGorilla, Morozumi,Atsuko TenFlashingFireflies, Sturges, Philomon (Activity 75) Review:Towers of 1More On page 58, children used the pattern of “1more” to make towers for the numbers 1 to 5. On this page, the activity is continued for the numbers 6 through 10. If available, a plastic number stair should be used at the end of the activity to store the towers. In an earlier chapter, we built towers to 5 following a special pattern. The special patternwas that each new towerwasmade bymatching the old tower and making the new tower 1 storymore. Todaywe continue the activity andmake towers up to 10 stories. First, build a tower 1 story high. Now, build a new tower by matching your old tower andmaking the new tower 1 storymore. (Repeat 9 times.) Now, build a new tower bymatching your old tower andmaking the new tower 1 storymore. Howmany stories are in your tower? (10) Touch your shortest tower and say aloud the number of stories. Count the number of stories in each tower from your shortest tower to your tallest tower. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Counting from aTower After children can touch and count from 1 to 10, have them begin to count forward from a number. Todaywe are going to count up to 10, starting from a tower other than the 1 tower. Touch your 2 tower. Count aloud from 2 to 10. (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Remind the children that they should not say aloud the tower they are starting from; rather, they are to count forward from that tower. This activity of counting from a number is an important readiness activity for successwith addition where students should learn to count up from a number rather than having to count by ones from 1 to the number. Place your towers on thematching picture. Color the pictures of cubes the same color as the cubes in your tower.Write the number of stories in each tower inside the highest cube of each tower. Read to Me Student Book Towers of OneMore 75 ©MathTeachersPress, Inc.Reproduction by anymeans is strictly prohibited. Name ________________________________________________________________ Towers of OneMore Explicit, Conceptually Based Instruction Reinforce Visualize Introduce & Explore E XAMPLE L EARNING O BJECTIVE : O RDER NUMBERS FROM 0 TO 10