LESSON PLAN

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

This large and small group activity will teach children about numbers and colors, through oral reading discussion, and hands-on experiences. They will be instructed on the different numbers and counting quantities. We will reinforce the different colors and numbers. Students will create their own number chart.

Book

Dog's Colorful Day: A Messy Tale about colors and counting.

Illinois State Goal # 6

Benchmarks: Language Arts: Language Development/Listening & understanding-b, Speaking & Communication - c e.

Language Arts: Literacy/Reading: Print Awareness & fluency

Creative Arts: visual art

Math: Numbers and Operations-b.

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to:

Demonstrate and apply a knowledge and use of numbers.

Count with understanding and recognize how many in sets of objects.

Create/design their own number chart (1-6) or (1-10).

Materials to be prepared

white construction paper

Cutouts of numbers 1-6

Number stamps (1-20) and ink pads

Cutout shapes of different colors (flowers, hearts, squares etc.)

Glue bottles with brushes

3 enlarged copies of the dog from the cover

Markers/colored pencils (colors from the story)

Small colored circles (colors from the story)

Go fishing activity bucket (with fish and rod)

Blue Print Application (Where is Dog?)

Flash cards with numbers & items (1-10)

Flash cards with colors and words

CD with the song Number Rock

Lesson Description

Circle time (15-20 min): Transition students to the rug by playing the Number Rock song, while singing & dancing and counting to 20. Students will also select a number 1-10 from a bag and identify the number.

Prior knowledge- a quick review of colors and numbers using flash cards. Discuss today's story, and how we identified the colors on the first read aloud.

Today we will reread the story, and will be working with numbers and counting.

Students will place a spot on a dog using the correct colors, during the read aloud. The class will be counting the spots as they are given. The class will be counting the spots as they are given. Students will be called by using the numbers they selected.

While students are selecting the correct color and placing a spot on a dog, the teacher will be creating a number chart on the board.

Upon completion of read aloud, we will count the number of spot on each dog and in all on both dogs (20).

After the read aloud, students identify their number, when called to go to a center in pairs. (Teacher had made 2 sets of number cards; one set in red and the other was in blue) The teacher assistant set up the center choices during reading.

Centers (60 min): the teacher and teacher assistant work with 2 or 3 students at a time on completing their number charts. They will also oversee the other activities.

During Center time, students are playing go fish and counting the number of worms their fish ate. Other students played pin the spot on dog, and counted how many spots dog had when the bowl was empty. Some students used the Blue Print Application -Where is Dog- with positional words and picture match-up. Also during center time student were involved in pairs while painting, using water table, colored sand at the sand ...