Lesson+5+LRussell

Title: **Math: Numbers in the Environment**

Approximate: **45 minutes**

Goals (What are students able to do?): **Recognizes numbers in the environment**

Instructional Objectives: **Students will use mathematical concepts in relation to life by identifying numbers in their environment.**

Materials needed: ** Book __Math-Link__, Math Card #22, Math story about money and buying products, coins for counting, posters, telephone book pages, play phone, sale paper **

Warm Up: ** The teacher will show students math card #22 and ask children to name numbers they see. The teacher will discuss how numbers are used in dates, price, and time. **

Instructional procedures: ** __Whole group activity__- ** ** Read the math link __Sale Today!__ Invite the students to talk about what numbers they see in the book. **

Guided Practice: **__Small group activities__** ** A: Show the students a telephone book and explain how telephone numbers are made up of the same numbers they have been learning about in school. Provide students with a play phone and a sheet from the telephone book and encourage students to find the numbers on their telephones. ** ** Students can continue to practice counting with one-to-one correspondence by working on mini activity #2  ** ** B: Prepare or find a sale paper that shows items for sale. Attached to the items will be price tags with prices ranging 1 cent to 8 ce **** nt price tags with prices from 1cent to 8 cent. Students will pick items to buy and count the correct amount of coins to match the price. ** ** Students can **** continue matching sets to numerals by completing mini-activity #7. ** ** C. Create number posters ( Poster labeled “Two 2”, another labeled “Three 3” and another labeled “Four 4”) Students will use magazines to find pictures that represent a set of two, three or four. Students will cut out the pictures and glue them to the number poster. Students can continue practicing by completing mini-activity #8. **

Formative assessments: **__ Whole group activity __** ** The teacher ask students to find target numerals on the classroom calendar. **

Summative assessments: ** Students will be assessed according to their small group tasks. ** ** During small group the teacher will use an anecdotal form in order to take observational notes on student’s performance. **