Lesson Plan
Counting Cookies!
Your students will love helping two stuffed animals solve a cookie argument! They will practice their detective skills as they play a Missing Cookie Game.
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Learning Objectives
The students will be able to count objects to six and identify missing numbers after finishing this lesson.
Introduction
(15 minutes)- Gather the students in a circle seated on the floor.
- Get their attention by introducing your stuffed cat and dog. You will explain that the two critters are great friends but sometimes get into silly arguments.
- Show the critters frolicking and playing.
- Bring out the 6 cookie images. Show the critters investigating the cookies. This is the part where they begin to argue over who gets to eat the cookies.
- Have the critters ask your students for some ideas. One of your students will likely suggest that they share the cookies.
- Have the critters jump up and down with excitement over this great idea.
- Deliberately make the cat count the cookies the wrong way by counting the cookies more than one time ending up with a much higher number than six. The dog will bark and growl over this mistake.
- Have the dog “teach” the cat that each cookie can only be counted one time.
- Have the dog and cat count the cookies the correct way.
- Ask the students to predict how many cookies they think each critter will get.
- Have the critters divide the cookies evenly so that they each get 3. Explain that this way, the dog and the cat get the same number of cookies. Invite your students to say “goodbye” to the critters.