Lesson Plan: One Duck Stuck
One Duck Stuck By Phyllis Root (ISBN – 0-590-51661-2)
Course: MathematicsStrand: NumbersGrade: Kindergarten
Learning Outcomes:
(K.N.3) Relate a numeral, 1 to 10, to its respective quantity.
Assessment:
Students will be observed by the teacher as they place their number of animal cards, (animals represented in the story) counting up block by block on the Learning Carpet till they reach their respective number.
Connection to Last Lesson:
Students were introduced to the Learning Carpet, and the concept of counting up and down by ones on the carpet with the blocks numbered and unnumbered.
Flexible Grouping:
For this lesson I will use homogeneous groups. Each group will be given different pictures of an animal represented in the story, and that number of picture that the animal represented. They will then complete the task of relating the number of animal pictures to its quantity on the Learning Carpet.
Activating Strategies: Preparing for Learning
-Provide transparencies of each animal in the story, while asking the students what they know about the animal.
-Get a recording of the noise each animal makes.
Acquiring Strategies: Integrating and Processing Learning
-Explain to the students that you will be reading them a story about a duck, and how the duck got stuck.
-Explain how being stuck created a huge problem for the duck, who needed the assistance of some friends.
-Read the story One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root while gathered around the Learning Carpet.
-Discuss with the students how many of each animal it took to get the duck unstuck. Ask how many of which animal they though for sure would get the duck unstuck? Why?
Applying Strategies: Consolidate Learning
-Have each group of students represent an animal from the story. With their number of pictures of that animal (the number the animal represents in the story) have them count the pictures out on the Learning Carpet for everyone to see the quantity of that number.
-Ask the students to count each animal every time they lay the animal’s picture on the numbered squares of the Learning Carpet. Repeat this process till they have all the pictures down, so that they can visualize the total quantity.
Extension: Count the animals with the students again without numbers on the Learning Carpet.
Connections: In art students could draw a picture of the duck stuck or the scene with all the animals at the end of the story.
In ELA the class could create their own counting story.
Learning Resources:
-Copy of the book One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root (ISBN – 0-590-51661-2)
-Pictures of each animal represented in the story, times the number it represents on individual cards that fit the squares of the Learning Carpet.
-The Learning Carpet.
-The numbers for the squares of the Learning Carpet.
-Overhead projector and screen
-Transparencies of each animal in the book.
-Possibly a sound device to play the sound of each animal.
Different Ways of Learning:
Word – read other animal math books.
Picture – Create the number of face masks that each animal represents.
Body – Have students act out the story with the face masks, while the teacher is reading it.
Music – Sing a song about ducks.
People – Students working together.
Math – relating numerals to quantity.
Naturalist – making the noises of each animal.
Source: Kristine Goldthorpe
Success For all Learners
Kindergarten to Grade 4 Mathematics, Jan. 2008