Lesson Plan
Mr. Alligator Can't Catch Me!
Students can use their play skills to demonstrate subtraction. In this lesson, your students will use a familiar rhyme to practice subtraction.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to represent subtraction by manipulating up to 5 objects.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell your students that today they will be practicing subtraction, or taking away.
- Show students the video Five Little Monkeys Swinging from a Tree.
- Encourage students to sing along and use their fingers to practice along with the video.
Beginning
- Ask students to think about the word "subtraction" and what it might mean. Tell students that it means to take away.
- Allow students to share their understanding of subtraction in their home language (L1) if possible.
- Review numbers 1–10.
Intermediate
- Display an addition equation and ask students to think about what addition means (to put things together) and how that is different from subtraction.
- Define subtraction as taking an amount away from something.