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Title: **What’s The Order?**

Approximate: **45 minutes**

Goals (What are students able to do?): **Identify first, middle and last in a series**

Instructional Objectives: ** Students will demonstrate knowledge of positional words by- **
 * ** labeling positions in a sequence **
 * ** arranging objects according to oral directions that include positional words **
 * ** or independently arrange and communicate the positions of items **

Materials needed: ** Book __Bear in Sunshine__, bear counters, position cards, Math Card #5 (modified) **

Warm Up: ** Review the story __Bear in Sunshine__ and discuss what kind of weather they observed first in the book, in the middle and last in the book. **

Instructional procedures: ** __Whole group activity__ ** ** Discuss how the words first, middle and last can describe physical positions as well as events in stories. Show students the math card 5 appendix #1 and describe the position of each child first, middle and last. Invite three students to stand up. Ask the remaining children to help her choose who will be first, in the middle and then last. Repeat until all students have participated. **

Guided Practice: **__Small group activities__** ** A: Using the math card 5 appendix #1 have students match students in the correct position. Model how to orally label each position as students attach the correct student. Students will have independent practice by completing mini- activity #1. ** ** B: Using three bear counters and a position card appendix #2. Demonstrate how to begin the bear sequence on the star. Give each child three bears and a position card and have students follow the model of the teacher putting the yellow bear first, green bear in the middle and blue bear last. Then have students will follow an oral direction blue bear first, yellow bear in the middle and green bear last. Then have students create their own bear sequence and tell others what the position of each bear is. Students will have independent practice by completing mini activity #2. ** ** C: Review the math card briefly and have students to find various objects that they can arrange first, middle and last. Students can also begin counting items and matching into sets to numbers. Help students understand that for effective counting you must count the first item until the last item. Have students independently practice by completing mini-activity #3 or #4. **

Formative assessments: ** As students leave the small group area, have students line up facing in one direction. The teacher will ask questions “who is first, in the middle, last?” **

Summative assessments: ** Students will be assessed during center play and/or a later small groups. See Rubric Lesson #1 ** ** A: Can students independently and accurately label the position of the students in math card #5? ** ** B: Can students arrange objects according to oral directions. ** ** C : Can students tell the position of objects that they themselves arranged. **