Mount St.

Joseph University Lesson Planning Template

Name _____Toria Black _________________________________________

Lesson Title _________Subtracting_______________________________________

Grade level(s)/Course/Content Area _____Kindergarten/Math _______________________________________

Time Frame (# of class periods/___minutes each) _______________________________

CONTEXT FOR LEARNING

What do I know about my students that will inform this lesson?

Students understand how to add but they are struggling on subtraction.

How does this lesson connect with and build on my previous lesson(s)?
Students learned how to add within 5 and now are learning how to subtract within 5.

How do I expect to build on this lesson in subsequent lessons?

Students used their fingers and manipulatives to add, using those methods to solve subtraction problems with
help them.

What evidence-based practice or education research will guide my teaching?

Constructivism will guide my teaching. The students will be able to learn and use different methods to understand
and to solve math problems.

What other special features of my school or classroom will affect the teaching of this lesson?
Showing a video that is age appropriate to help the students understand how to subtract will help them. Using
blocks and re-teaching how to use your fingers will also help.

INFORMATION ABOUT STUDENTS AND THEIR LEARNING NEEDS

Total students___28______ Males_____18_____ Females____10______

Diverse Student Needs Number of Accommodations and/or pertinent IEP Objectives

Category Students
Students with IEPs

English Language Learners

Gifted

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Other special needs

PLANNING FOR INSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT

INSTRUCTION

Central Focus: Students will learn how to subtract and can use their hands or manipulatives to help.

College and Career-Ready Content Standards: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: K.OA.5 Fluently add and subtract
within 5. Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

Objectives: Students will be able to subtract fluently within 5 using their fingers and/or counters.
Subtracting and adding is very important for students because it is a basic skill that will need in their
future.

Academic Language Objectives: Students will be able to subtract within 5.

Prior Learning/Prior Thinking: Students will continue to learn how to fluently add and subtract numbers as
they continue their education.

Instructional resources, materials, technology, and websites referenced to guide my instruction and engage
student learning (Use APA format for citing texts/publications)
http://bonlacfoods.com/images/simple-subtraction-worksheets-with/simple-subtraction-worksheets-
with-8.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pF7JpvUhcQ

ASSESSMENT

Before the lesson

Gathering information about student knowledge

Pre-assessment that may be used: Watch a quick video that showcases subtraction to the students. Write math
problems up on the board. Go through the problems together to see how well the students are understanding
subtracting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pF7JpvUhcQ

During the lesson

Informal Formative Assessment: After watching the video write some math problems on the board for the class to
practice together.

Formal Formative Assessment: Complete the worksheet.

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At the end of the lesson

Formative… Look over their worksheet to confirm their understanding
Summative… Complete the math coloring sheet.

LESSON IMPLEMENTATION

Anticipatory Set/Elicit Prior Knowledge: Students have been working on subtracting for a couple of days.
Students are struggling with the concept of subtracting.

Focus/Purpose Statement: Subtract within 5

Procedures:
 Introduce the lesson for the day
 Explain that we will be watching a short video about subtracting
 As the students are watching the video, write down a few sample problems on the board
 After the video is finished, get the students attention and direct them to the board
 Use one problems and model how to solve
o Draw pictures and cross them out
o Use your fingers
 Move on to the next problem and give the students the chance to share their answer.
 Allow a student to come to the board and show how they got their answer.
o Help the student if needed
 After completing the practice problems, have the students make a circle around the carpet.
 Do 10 jumping jacks for the body shaking activity
 Have students sit down and explain the worksheet that they will be working on
 Dismiss them by tables to their seats
 Pass out the worksheets to the students.
 Do the first problem together and show your work up on the board
 Walk around and help students that they need it
 As students complete the worksheet look over their answers and redirect them if they are struggling
 Once they complete the worksheet give them a math coloring sheet

Differentiation: Show the whole class how to subtract by using pictures and/or counters to show the students
different ways to subtract. Students can use math centers to help them get more practice going through math
stations that will help students build their skill. Struggling students need more instruction on how to use their
fingers and/or counters to subtract.

Closure: Students will complete a math coloring sheet.

Reflection on lesson: Using the video clip to help students learn how to subtract really helped them. The
students was struggling in math and observing that helped me create lessons to help strengthen their

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skills. This lesson help students learn how to subtract and using manipulatives also helped them
understand the whole concept of subtracting.

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