Lesson Plan Four Column Format

Title: Five little monkeys: Numbers 1-5 Content Area: Math

Teacher Name: Parker Areheart Grade Level: Kindergarten

OVERARCHING GOALS FOR THE LESSON LESSON OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS

Students will subtract within five using fingers, pictures, Students will subtract within five using a five frame.
motions, and five frames. Standard: Model situations that involve subtraction
within ten using objects, fingers, mental images,
drawings, acting out situations, verbal explanations,
expressions, and equations.
IMPORTANT CONTENT CONNECTION: Describe the important concepts related to this lesson that students have as prior
or future concepts to learn.
Students have knowledge of numbers one through five and how to use a five frame.
IMPORTANT THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS & FOUNDATIONS: Describe the important theoretical underpinnings of
the lesson, both general and content-specific theories of learning and development.
Number sense
MATERIALS. List the texts, equipment, and other materials to be used by the students. List the materials, including
equipment or technology used by the teacher in presenting the experiences.
Five frames, counters, five little monkeys puppet (five little monkeys jumping the bed)
Components of the Anticipated Student Teaching notes Evidence of learning.
lesson. learning activities Responses and solution DIFFERENTIATION: list Evaluation points or
and key questions (and time strategies. (Potential Barriers adaptations for ELL, EC, LD assessment questions.
allocation) & Misconceptions)
LINK PRIOR Some students may be Use beginning of the year How many monkeys are
KNOWLEDGE. Outline having trouble understand assessment to determine left?
procedures for activating prior that is why working in whether students Show me how many
knowledge and student partners will be understand fiveness. monkeys using your
interest. incorporated into the For those who do not counters and five frames
1) Introduce attention lesson. understand I will use small
signal. ( Give me Students may not be group and math stations to
five) comfortable using a five teach and reinforce
2) Introduce the song
frame. fiveness using hands on
five monkeys
activities.
jumping on the bed
Students that are
with the motions. (1
struggling may be paired
 minute) with students with better
3) Start singing the understanding of the
song while using the concepts.
motions. (2 minutes)
4) Get the students into
partners (2 people)
and pass out the five
counters and the
counters. ( 1 to each
group)
5) Use the five frames
and counters in
partners within the
song to represent
taking out one. (5
minutes)
6) Turn and talk to
partners about what
taking away means.
(2 minutes)
INSTRUCTIONAL Students may become Students need to be Use your hands and show
STRATEGIES. Outline what distracted by the monitored during activity me how many monkeys.
the teacher(s) and students movement or by working to make sure they are on
will do to Engage & Educate. with their partners. task.
Active learning tasks. If Some students arent Students should be paired
required, include the script of
comfortable with doing according to their strengths
your lesson here.
movements in front of and weaknesses.
Music and
class.
movement
Work in partners
REFLECT and Some students may Some students will be Tell your partner what
SUMMARIZE. Outline how become off task with their affected by language take away means.
you will close. conversation. barriers.
Tell students to turn and
talk to their partners about
what we did in class.
EXTENSIONS/CONNECTI Some students may not May need to reread story to Who can tell me what
ONS. What other lessons remember the details from remind children of the happened to the monkey?
does this lesson connect to? the previous reading. events of the story.
Connects to reading and
previously reading Five
Little Monkeys.
REFLECTION: After the lesson, reflect on what went well and what didnt go well. Write changes you might implement the
next time the lesson is taught.
Overall the lesson went pretty well. The visual aids seemed to be productive but the way I closed out the lesson was
horrible. I could have tried to do something different at the end to help the students grasp the concept of
subtraction better.