Ready-to-teach lesson
Sequence The Week and the Count to Five
Little Pea - Grade K - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Put the seven days and their sweets in order, and follow the second count to five.
PRODUCT
A seven-row week, and a five-step count Essential question: Two things are counted in this book.
What are they, and which is worse?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 8 - the first half of the week
- One sequence sheet each
- Passage 9 - the rest of the week
- Prepared passages: Passage 8, Passage 9
Lesson sequence
1 Launch - 3 min
- Focus:
- A week, and then a countdown to pudding
- Teacher direction:
- This book counts two different things. See if you can hear both.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8 2 Teacher model - 5 min
- Teacher model:
- I read Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and stop. The class can usually say what comes next before I turn the page, because the order is one they already know - and the book is using that to tell them how long this goes on for.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8 3 The week in order - 7 min
- Focus:
- Seven days, seven sweets
- Teacher direction:
- Using Passages 8 and 9, write the seven days and the sweet for each.
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- Expected answer:
- Monday red, Tuesday orange, Wednesday yellow, Thursday purple and pink polka-dotted, Friday striped, Saturday swirly, Sunday rainbow. Four of them are on one page and three on the next, and each one is drawn as the sweet it is named for - the polka-dotted one really is spotted, the swirly one has a spiral on it. The point of the list is length: it is not one bad dinner, it is every dinner there is.
- Student product:
- A seven-row week: the day, and the sweet
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8, Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: The book uses two orders you already knew before you opened it. Say what they are, and why that makes the list easy to join in with.
Below: Seven rows for the week, then the five-step count.
Assessment
- Names the sweet for three of the days
- Puts the days in the right order
- Says how many pieces he must eat
- Gives the noise he makes at the fourth piece
- Says what the plate looks like by the end of the count
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