Lesson 7: Counting Collections

 Lesson Plan

Tuning In

• Students watch, listen and sing along to the How Many Fingers? video on YouTube. At the end of the video, ask the students:
  • How many fingers are on one hand? Two hands?
  • How many toes are on one foot? Two feet?
  • When counting a collection, like our fingers and toes, how do we know how many objects there are altogether?

Teacher Instruction

• Display and discuss slide 5 of the Counting Collections and Connecting Numbers PowerPoint. Reinforce that the last number counted in a collection tells us ‘how many’.
• Invite some students to stand out the front. Ask the class to count the collection of students. As they are counting, remind the students that the last number they count is how many students there are all together. Repeat this two more times, saying the last number louder e.g. one, two, three, four, five!
• Complete the activity on slide 6 as a class, counting each collection in a whisper but calling out the last number to tell ‘how many’. Check the answers on slide 7.
• Display and discuss slide 8. Call out a number from 1 to 5 and ask the class to make a group with that number of students. After the groups have been formed, discuss how the groups look. Highlight that even though the groups have the same number of people, the groups look different e.g some groups could be sitting, standing, squatting, kneeling or lying down.
• As a class, complete the activity on slide 9. Check the answers on slide 10.

Guided/Independent Learning

• Display and discuss slide 11. Provide each student with a copy of the Counting Collections to 20 Worksheet and a blank template. Ask the students to complete the worksheet, first by counting how many objects are in each collection, then using the blank template to create their own small collections.
• Monitor and support the students as they complete the task. Once the students have finished, correct the worksheet as a class. Encourage more confident students to share their small collections.

Wrapping Up

• Place the students into small groups. Provide each group with a set of 1 to 20 Dump Truck Number Cards. Ask the students to order the cards, then place counters on the back of each dump truck to match the number written on the side.

 Differentiation

Extending Students

• Encourage more capable students to create 2-digit collections of objects.

Supporting Students

• Invite less confident students to work in small groups with the teacher or teacher aide and create single-digit collections of objects.

 Assessment Strategies

Suggested Assessment Strategies

• used strategic whole class or individual questioning
• observed student participation during learning activities
• recorded student progress on a checklist
• annotated student work samples
• collected and reviewed student work samples
• facilitated whole class or peer feedback sessions
• encouraged student self-reflection
• administered formal assessment tasks.

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