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Kinder Counting and Numbers: Overview & Purpose

This kindergarten lesson plan aims to teach students about numbers 1-10 and colors through hands-on learning centers. Students will practice counting, cardinality, and one-to-one correspondence by building patterns with blocks, towers with cubes, and completing missing number sequences. The teacher will introduce the lesson by reading a book and then rotate between three centers, observing students and providing assistance. Adaptations are provided for exceptional students.

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Kinder Counting and Numbers: Overview & Purpose

This kindergarten lesson plan aims to teach students about numbers 1-10 and colors through hands-on learning centers. Students will practice counting, cardinality, and one-to-one correspondence by building patterns with blocks, towers with cubes, and completing missing number sequences. The teacher will introduce the lesson by reading a book and then rotate between three centers, observing students and providing assistance. Adaptations are provided for exceptional students.

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Kinder Counting and

Numbers
Lesson Plan

Teacher: Ms. Hannah Mellick


Date: 09/04/2019

Overview & Purpose


Students will demonstrate and practice their knowledge of the numbers 1-10, and colors
through student-driven exploration of manipulatives. Cardinality and one-to-one will be
the main focus of this lesson. To introduce the lesson, we will read Stack the Cats to get
the children into the math mindset and help them picture the numbers in a real-life
setting. (there are 15 children in each class for this lesson plan)

Education Standards
1. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3
a. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written
numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
2. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4
a. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting
to cardinality.
3. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5
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a. Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in


a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered
configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
4. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1
a. Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the
relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in
front of, behind, and next to.
5. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.2
a. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
6. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.3
a. Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, "flat") or three-dimensional
("solid").

Objectives: Learning Centers with Hands-on


Manipulatives
1. Through these centers, students will be familiar with counting to ten.
2. Students will understand cardinality.
3. Students will understand one-to-one.
4. Students will be familiar and comfortable with shapes, colors, and
patterns.
5. Students will be able to recognize base 10 symbols and what they
represent.

Materials Needed
1. Stack the Cats by Susie Ghahremani

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2. Pattern Blocks and corresponding cards.
3. Unifix cubes, and corresponding number cards.
4. Whiteboards (set of five), and Markers
5. Missing number cards
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6. Large foam letters (1-10)

Verification
Steps to check for student understanding
1. Ask students to predict what the next tower will look like before they build it.
(table two, number towers)
2. Ask the shape and color numbers while the students are building their pattern
block rows. (table one, pattern block builders)
3. “Do the number patterns go past 10? Why?” I will ask the students to predict the
pattern to continue onto higher number patterns. I will ask the students to predict
the same pattern but for lower number sequences.

Activity
After introducing the lesson by reading Stack the Cats, we will break into centers. 5
children to a table, for three tables. I will be walking around assisting and encouraging
students.

Table one: Pattern Block Builders

Using different colors, and shapes of pattern blocks, the students will build the
number, and shape that is on the card. This will be great for practicing shape, and color
vocabulary. (optional adaptation: Students will practice putting blocks into rows, by
color, or simply count out the number of blocks. Teacher/aide will ask the student if
they know the color name, shape name, or number of blocks in the pattern)

Table two: Number Towers

Using unifix cubes, the students will build towers on top of a paper with the
corresponding numbers. (optional adaptation: Students will practice putting colors
together into a tower, teacher/aide will help the student practice saying the numbers
after a tower is completed.)

Table three: Missing Numbers

Using whiteboards, the students will be given number cards (1-5, or 6-10) with
one or two numbers missing from the sequence. The students will write the missing
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numbers on the whiteboards to complete the correct sequence. (optional adaptation:


student may be given iPad to write number with their finger, or trace number if holding a
marker is not an option. If this is not an option, I will provide foam numbers 1-10 and
encourage the student to participate through free exploration of numbers. I will ask aide
or I will sit with the student to practice saying the numbers in sequence or out loud.)

Further possible accommodations for exceptional students:

- Sensory headphones to block noise of other children


- Ipad instead of whiteboard and marker
- The use of a teachers aide, or paraprofessional

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