|
Materials: One by One by Judy Hindley; crayons, drawing paper Read the book aloud to the children. Stop at various pages and have the children talk about whether they see as many of one kind of animal as they see of another. Ask children to tell how they know. After reading have children draw a row of animals. Then have them draw a second row and a third row of different animals. Have children show the same number of animals in each row.
Materials: Catch the Wind! All About Kites, drawing paper, crayons Read the book aloud to the children. This book will provide many insights into the variety of kites, how they are made and how to fly them. After reading the story have the children draw and color a kite. Give each child a bow with a numeral for his/her kite's tail. The child should draw that number of objects on his/her kite. Another variation would be to have a worksheet with a number of kites. Each kite would be labeled with a numeral. The child would then have to draw that number of bows to that kite's tail.
Prepare a center in advance with 10 construction paper lady bugs. Each lady bug should be programmed with a numeral from 1-10 on its head. The wings should not have any dots on them. In a basket have a quantity of black dots. Read aloud the book. Discuss ladybugs and the fact that ladybugs may have various numbers of dots on their wings. Each child will be able to visit the center. The child will then place the number of black dots on the ladybug's wings as directed by the numeral on the bug's head.
Read the story aloud. Discuss the trouble that Peter gets into. Focus attention on the flowerpots that get overturned. Share with the children that they will be able to visit a center where they will be able to "fix" the flowerpots that Peter overturned. In the center have a collection of plastic flowerpots labeled with a numeral from 1-10. Also have a basket of single bloom artificial flowers. Share with children that they will be replanting the flowers in the flowerpots placing the number of flowers in the flowerpot as the number on the flowerpot dictates.
Read aloud the book. Discuss the story. Share with the children the center that has been prepared to go with this fish story. Have prepared lots of small red fish shapes and 1 black fish shape. Arrange the fish on poster board to look like a large fish. Trace the shape of the large fish shape onto the poster board. Remove the small fish and store them in a fish bowl. Cut along the large fish outline. Place the large fish shape, the bowl of red fish, the black fish and a numbered spinner in a center. Share with the children that they will use the center by taking turns with the spinner, reading the number they spun and taking a matching number of red fish to place within the larger fish outline. The student to take the last red fish also takes the black "Swimmy" in the correct location to be the large fish's eye. At this point the game is over and everybody playing wins.
Read this book aloud to the class. Talk about how Mr. Anno tells that early people used counters to keep track of things. Share with the children that you will be playing a game where they will need to use counters to show the number of things you ask them to look for in the classroom. For example have the children use their counters to make a set equal to the number of clocks in the classroom. Children may enjoy playing this game with peers, one child could be the teacher asking the children to represent with their counters various amounts of objects in the classroom.
Read the story aloud to the children. Discuss how the "right number of elephants" could get the jobs done. Ask the children what jobs they are responsible for both at home and in the classroom. Ask them to think silly and give a number to tell how many elephants it would take to do that job. In a prepared center have a number of elephants cut out. Also have a bowl of peanuts. Tell the children to think of a job and the number of elephants it would take to do that job. Tell them to take that number of elephants from the basket. The child should touch and count the elephants. The child should then feed each elephant a peanut, again touching and counting the elephants and the peanuts as they match a peanut to each elephant.
Read the book. On each page have a different volunteer find the number of dots and the item or items to match that number. Children may enjoy making their own dot book for numbers 1-10.
|
