Name: Allison Zelinski

Date: 04-29-16

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit Topic: Understanding Addition

Lesson Focus: Using manipulatives (bodies) to represent addition problems.
Standard/Benchmark:
K.OA.1/ Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings,
sounds (e.g., claps), act out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Objective
Students will be able to represent addition problems using manipulatives like their bodies,
pictures and drawings.
Motivation/Accessing Prior Knowledge (The Hook): 10-15 minutes

Gather students on the carpet-students will sit in assigned seats

Introduce/review addition vocabulary terms.
o Addition means what? Add two or more numbers together.
o Equation- says that two things are equal or the same. In an addition equation
there is are numbers, an addition sign and an equal sign.
o Addition sign + for adding or putting together
o Equal sign = the same as
o Sum- total of adding two or more numbers together , the answer to the addition
problem
o Explain to students that they can use objects, pictures, bodies, drawings and
equations to represent addition problems.
Video- have students face towards the screen
o /song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_wvvEvkw4(pause throughout the
video to ask questions and solve the problems in the video.
o .17 Why is the sum arrow pointing to the number 5? What does a sum mean?
What does the + sign mean? What about the = sign?
o .34- What is the sum? How did you figure that out? Is there a different way you
could solve the problem?

Learning Activities/Assessments 30 minutes

Set down the hula hoops in the middle of the carpet and have students sit in a circle
around the hula hoops.(2 minutes)
Call students up to stand inside the hula hoops to create addition problems. (I will give
each student a turn to participate in the problems).
Solve the first two problems as a class. Once the problem is figured out, write the
problem on the board.

o 3 boys are in first hula hoop. 2 girls are in the second hula hoop. How many
students are inside hula hoops? 5
o 1 more boy joins the other three boys in the first hula hoop. 1 more girl joins the
other two girls in the hula hoops. How many students are in hula hoops? 7
After, have students raise their hands to answer the next two questions and write the
equation on the board (I will have them expand on how they got the answer, other ways
they could solve the problem, etc.).
o How did you get your answer?
o What does the + mean? How did that help you get your answer?
o What does the equal sign mean?
o Does this answer sound right? Thumbs up or thumbs down?
o Is there another way you can solve this problem?
Questions : Have students come up to the board and write the equation.

o There are 2 students in the first hula hoop, 1 student in the second hula hoop and 3
students in the third hula hoop. How many students are in hula hoops?6
o There are 5 students in the first hula hoop and 4 students in the second hula hoop.
How many students are in hula hoops?9
Have students return to their tables.
Have table captains pick up the counting bears, working mats and paper.
Go through a few addition problems with the class using the Elmo to display your
working mat and counting bears. 10 minutes
o 2 bears are swinging on the swing and 4 bears are on the slide. All of the bears
move to go play in the sandbox. How many bears are in the sandbox? 6
o 5 bears are waiting in line to go on the slide. 3 bear is on the slide. How many
bears are there on the playground? 8
o 1 bear is playing is climbing the tree .6 bears are playing in the sandbox. The bear
in the tree moves to go play in the sandbox. How many bears are in the sandbox?
7
Then have students work through three addition problems by themselves using the
counting bears. Students will write down the numbers and answers on the worksheet.
o There was 1 bear on the slide and 4 bears in the sand box. How many bears are
on the playground? 5
o 3 bears slid down the slide and joined 5 bears that were in the sand box. How
many bears are in the sandbox?

o 2 bears were sitting on the swings. 7 bears were in the sandbox. How many bears
are on the playground? 9
Have students raise their hand once they are finished so you can check their work. Star
and collect their paper if they answered all three questions correctly.

Closure 5 minutes

Gather students back to the carpet to sit in their assigned seats.

Write/draw problem out on the big note pad paper.
o Johnny bought three ice cream cones for his family at the ice cream store. Lisa
bought two ice cream cones for her friends. How many ice cream cones did they
buy?

What is your strategy for getting the answer? Counting all objects individually?
Counting on?, etc. (3 minutes)

When you add numbers together, is the answer bigger or smaller than the numbers in the
problem? How do you know? They are the same. The numbers in the problem should
equal the answer to the problem.
You can represent addition by using bodies like we did with the hula hoops. You can
represent addition with pictures like the video you watched. You can represent addition
with pictures like I just showed you with the ice cream cone example and you can
represent addition using equations.