Mrs.+Henne

Tomorrow's math lesson begins a new chapter. We've been leading up to actually solving addition and subtraction sentences so we begin the chapter by reading a story about the 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed. To accommodate the handful + of kids who aren't at the reading level of the story I can have them come up and actually act out the story while the rest of the kids are reading it from the book. I had then planned to go through the vocabulary but am now thinking that we can bring bodies of kids up to show what it means to "add"...what a "sum" actually looked like...what "difference" really means. For the final product we can put the words into a bucket, mix em up, have kids draw one at a time and SHOW or give an example of the vocab words instead of just defining them.

If you have some that more advanced they could create their own story similiar to monkeys on the bed using other characters and/or a different number. That book does subtraction. Maybe have them make a book where you're adding monkeys or characters to go with subtraction. Nancy