Connections Pre-K Sampler

143 ©MathTeachersPress, Inc.Reproductionbyanymeans isstrictly prohibited. Name ________________________________________________________________________ Two less – = 3 2 1 – = Have children use a blank piece of paper to look at this page one picture at a time as described on page 122. Look at the pictures at the top of the page. These pictures tell a story about animals. There are 3 parts to the story.What is the first part? (there are 3 cows in the fence) What is the next part? (2 cows leave) What is the last part of the story? (there is 1 cow left in the fence) Shownumber cards for eachpart of this story. Now copy the numbers into thewriting space under each picture. Youmay assist writing numbers for the student after they select the correct Numeral Cards. Repeat for the other 2 sets of pictures on this page. Skill Builders 27-2 3 2 1 3 Objective: To explore the concept of taking away at the concrete level by removing 2 from a set of up to 5 objects. Materials: Construction paper (green, blue, and red), scissors, glue, farm animal counters or cardsmade from Master 18, Numeral Cards 1–5 (Masters 7 and 8), pictures of barns (optional) Vocabulary: horse, cow, pig, duck, sheep Storytime: BarnDance, Martin, Bill Jr. and JohnArchambault Reinforce: finger play (page 141) Creating a FarmyardStoryboard After reading BarnDance, each student will need scissors, glue, and the following shapes cut from the correct color of construction paper tomake a storyboard like the illustration below. Let’smake a picture of a farmyard. Let’s pretend the greenpaper is the yard. There is a small pond in the yard. Put the circle of blue paper on your green paper to be the pond. There is also a redbarn in the yard. Put the barn shape of redpaper on your green paper to be the barn. Show pictures of barns to the students, if available. Introduce the farm animal counters and allow an exploratory timewith the animals. If counters are not available, prepare FarmAnimal Cards fromMaster 18. Identify the animals by name to the students, and ask the students how the animals are alike and how they are different. (Similarities: all animalsmay be found on a farm, all have 2 eyes and 2 ears. Differences: number of legs, size, shape, feathers or fur, etc.) Telling andModeling FarmyardStories Tell or read farm stories, asking the students to act out the stories using their farmyard pictures and farm animals. Be sure to tell stories involving taking away. Examples: Three cows are eating in the farmyard. One cow goes back to the barn. Howmany cows are in the farmyard? Three ducks are swimming in the pond. One duck leaves the pond to go to the yard. Howmany ducks are left in the pond? Have the students retell each of the stories andmodel them on the Farmyard Storyboard.After they have retold the story, ask them to findNumeral Cards for the numbers used in the stories. RED GREEN BLUE 1 143 PK-27, PK-29 Pre-K Unit 8 39 Unit8 TakingAway Exploring the results of taking away two from a set Sample Art Cent r Activity Creating a FarmyardStoryboard After reading BarnDance, each student will need sciss s, glue, and the following shapes cut from the correc colo of construction paper tomake a storyboard like the illustration below. Let’smake a picture of a farmyard. Let’s pretend the greenpaper is the yard. There is a small pond in the yard. Put the circle of blue paper on your green paper to be the pond. There is also a redbarn in the yard. Put the barn shape of redpaper on your green paper to be the barn. Show pictures of barns to the students, if available. RED GREEN BLUE