11_15_06

Small-group work
2:10 Measure table with cubes and make groups of tens and ones

2:25 More/less activity with raisins.

"I'm going to give some raisins to David. How many should I give him? Okay, if I give him 5, I'm going to give less raisins to Sienna. How many should I give her? Okay, now I'm going to give Taylor more raisins than Sienna has. How many should I give him?"

Once everyone has raisins, figure out how many raisins there are altogether and how many groups of raisins. "Do we have 6 equal groups? Is this fair? No? Then what should we do?"

Students decided to give everyone 12 raisins. Then we went around the circle and for each child figured out how many more they needed to get to 12. Some students used trial and error and we practiced counting on. Others used great strategies.

For example, Sienna said, "If Vinnie has 8 raisins, I know she needs 4 more to have 12." Teacher: "How do you know?" Sienna: "I said, '8, 9, 10, 11, 12.'" She holds up a finger for each number after 8 until she is holding up 4 fingers.

Then, Taylor said, "If Jessie has 1 raisin, I know she needs 11 to get to 12." Teacher: "How do you know?" Taylor: "I have 12 raisins, so I took one away and there were 11 left."

YAY! Celebrations ensued.

2:40 Estimating/counting practice with 13

Large group
2:10 Trading Game (all start at 0 again)

2:30 Play Tens Go Fish with same partner