Overview of Lessons

Math Words are our vocabulary words. They are introduced and discussed in the first lesson, and placed on our Math Word wall next to the smart board. We use these words throughout our lessons, and reference them multiple times a day Math words:
Add Plus (+) Equal to (=) Addition sentence More than Addition story

 Lesson 4: making fact families.

Day 1 teach: explain that addition and subtraction are related, and we call these related subtraction facts fact families. Use pictures on smart board to sort through objects and show how addition and subtraction can be related (aka, there are 9 rolls of wool, 7 are blue, 2 are white. Ask different questions, which make different addition and subtraction sentences for students until they create a whole fact family). Day 2 teach: use related addition/subtraction facts to solve subtraction sentences.
Using a bowl, and unifix cubes, illustrate how you can use addition and subtraction to find a missing number (aka, hide two in the bowl of 5, and hold three. Explain that you have 5 all together, and there are 3 in your hand, how many are in the bowl?).

Lesson Overview
Chapter 4
Lesson 1 day 1: Ways to subtract
Day 1:
Introduce math words (vocabulary), and chapter opener. Chapter opener involved a picture story (boy with stickers, picture one shows boy holding stickers, he then drops 3 stickers down a drain, and ask how many does he have left!). Ask students to tell the story of the boy in the picture, from left to right, then explain that this is subtraction. When you have something, then take it away, you are subtracting. Then make number trains with unifix cubes. Take one away, and ask how many were taken away. Explain that this is subtraction Next make a number bond for a number on board, students get dry erase boards. Practice making number bonds then explain that you can have student subtract with number bonds also.

 Day 2- ways to subtract. Subtract by taking away.

Use unifix cubes to show that you can take away by subtracting. Have students help and hold up unifix cubes, then practice taking away a certain amount of cubes. Explain that this is called subtraction by taking away. Practice with students multiple times taking away. Write subtraction sentence on board for kids, and fill it in (kids get dry erase boards). Explain part/whole relationship between pieces of subtraction sentence. Next have students sit with 10 frames, and practice taking away a certain amount of numbers, then say what they have left. Write number bond on board to show part/whole relationship.

 Day 3: take away by finding out how many less/counting on to subtract.

Demonstrate on board 2 less than 4. Show with connector cubes and volunteers how to model the less than concept. Explain that by finding out how many less, you can also subtract Have students sit with 10 frames. Ask students to show you less than amounts of numbers. Make sure to explain that less than means take away. count on to subtract. Explain that by counting on, we can tell how much was subtracted. Use counting tape and explain that by starting at the smaller number, and counting on, we can see how many we subtracted. Model on board with number line.

 Day 4: count back to subtract:

Explain that we can also subtract by counting backwards. Explain to students how to put numbers in our head then use our fingers count back to the number we want to go to. The number on our fingers is our part. Make sure and emphasize that we use the greater number to count back with. Do guided practice on board, with footprints. And subtraction problems to review all 3 strategies.

 Lesson 1: day two. Use number bonds to subtract:

Day one: use pictures on board to explain that there are two parts to a whole (colored bean bags, colored beans). Show students how to write parts on number bond, and how to work backwards from the whole. Give students dry erase boards, and practice giving them the whole and one part of a picture, then have them write the number bonds to subtract. Explain that they can use number bond charts previously made to help them.

 Lesson 2: Making subtraction stories.

Day 1 teach: In small groups during math centers talk about what a subtraction story is, and have kids create their own spooky story. Also illustrate this spooky subtraction story. Day 2 teach: use pictures on smart board to tell subtraction stories. Have students volunteer stories for the pictures on the board. After a few pictures show students how to illustrate their stories with a number bond, and subtraction sentence.

 Lesson 3: real world problems.

Day 1: read and understand a real world problem. Explain to students that story problems are just the way that subtraction would be presented to us in the real world. Using the smart board read real world problems, and explain that they are telling us what math to do. Pay specific attention to what is the question that they are asking. Read real world problem, and write problem into a number sentence and number bond. Emphasize that what they are asking should be the blank spot on your number sentence/bond.