Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Content Area: Operations/Computations

Skills: One plus one

Prerequisites: Some number recognition, rote counting

Instructional Practices: Problem Solving and Reasoning

Materials Needed: Big book: "The Wind Blew" by: Pat Hutchins and/or "Rooster's Off to See The World" by: Eric Carle.

Teacher's Helper Magazine (Feb/Mar 95') Copies from this magazine are attached.

Technology: Math Concepts

Activity: Read the big book "The Wind Blew" to students. As you read you talk about what items were blown away. The umbrella plus the balloon. How many items has blown away? (1+1=2) Umbrella plus balloon plus hat(1+1+1=3)or(2+1=3). Keep reading the story and stop and talk to students and make addition word problems and solve them as you go. You can also make one-one correspondence connection. "Rooster's Off to See The World" book is also a good book to use for this activity. You can write the number problems out for the students to see as you read the story. You can use the worksheets that the Teacher's Helper Magazine provides to re-teach and for enrichment activities.

Theme Ideas: Depending upon which big book you use: Weather, Wind, Seasons, Letter W, and/or Animals