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Lesson Plan

It’s Raining Numbers!

Raindrops are falling in this weather-themed math lesson! Students will manipulate raindrops and discover that raindrops can be counted in the same order, even when they are arranged in different ways.
Need extra help for EL students? Try the Ordering Fish pre-lesson.
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Need extra help for EL students? Try the Ordering Fish pre-lesson.

Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to construct a piece of raindrop artwork in which they correctly count and label the number of raindrops and order the numbers correctly.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Tell your students that they are going to be counting raindrops today.
  • Have them sit in a circle.
  • Drop the large model raindrops so that they fall in the middle.
  • Tell your students that the challenge is to count the raindrops in different ways.

Beginning

  • Practice counting in students home language (L1) as well as in English.

Intermediate

  • Review counting using games or songs.