Count to 20 in Order!

Mollie Catlett
Kindergarten

Common Core Standards:

 K.CC.1: Count to 100 by ones and by tens

 K.CC.7: Compare (without using inequality symbols) two numbers

between 0 and 10 when presented as written numerals.

 K.CC.3 Write numerals from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with

a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects)

Lesson Summary:

This lesson is designed to help students with counting to 20 in order. First, we will have
a refresher lesson on counting by going to our smart board and having each student write
one number until we get to 20. Next, I will show a video called “Count to 20 and
Workout!” by Jack Hartmann. Following the video, I will write the word “order” on the
smartboard, and I will explain to the students what order is and what it means to put
something in order. Next, the students will go on their iPads to www.abcya.com and find
the game called “Blast Off! Numerical Order.” that they will then play. Following the
game, I will give them a worksheet called “Number Line Template 0-20" that will allow
them to cut out the numbers and glue them in order next to each other on a number line.
This number line will be my assessment to see where they are.

Estimated Duration:

This lesson will take about 103 minutes to do in total. I will split this lesson up into two
days since it is a longer lesson so that they do not get bored or burnt out.

Commentary:
I think that with Kindergarten, it is difficult to find a lesson plan that every student in the
room will want to do, but I definitely think that the kids will be more engaged in the
parts of the lesson that include technology. Kids always like to watch videos and play
games on the iPad because I think to them it feels like they aren't learning and just
playing a game, but they are. I will definitely keep the students interested in the lesson
by teaching them through games and songs. I also think that it will be more beneficial
that I am splitting up the lesson into two days, with brain breaks.

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1:

First 20 Minutes: I will begin with talking to the students about numbers and reminding
them that we have talked about the numbers 1-20 before. I then will pull up a plain white
board on the smartboard and I will have each student in the class come up and write the
next number that comes in this number line to 20 that we are creating.

3 Minutes: We will then watch the “Count to 20 and Workout” video by Jack Hartmann
on the smartboard. This video is only a few minutes long but will be a good way for the
students to practice counting to 20 and seeing the numbers in order. This video can also
be a way for the kids to get moving a little since it is a dancing video, which may help
some students if they are getting antsy.

20 Minutes: After the video, I will have the students all sit down back at their desks. On
the smartboard, I will write the word “order” on the board. I will explain to the students
what it means to put something in order, and how important it is for things to have a
specific order. I will then explain that numbers have a specific order that they go in, and
that is how we read them/understand them.

Day 2:

First 30 Minutes: To start of the second day of this lesson, I will remind the students
what he talked about the day before, and what we did. I will then have each student get
their IPad, and start playing “Blast Off! Numerical Order” on www.abcya.com. I will
tell every student that they need to at least get through the first two levels (which would
cover numbers 1-20), and if they have enough time after they finish that, they can keep
going past 20 if they can.

30 Minutes: After the students are done playing the game, I will have them go back to
their desks and I will pass out the “Number Line Template 0-20" worksheet, and they
will begin to cut out the numbers and glue them together in order on the number line. I
will assist any students who appear to be struggling with this activity. Once they are
finished with the worksheet, they will turn it into me so that I can see where they are at
with counting in order.

Pre-Assessment:
My way of pre-assessing the students at the beginning of this lesson is when I am having
each student come up to the smartboard and write the next number that comes after the
previous one that another student wrote. I think that I will get a pretty good idea of
where the students are at with that pre-assessment, because if they write the right
number that comes next, they are showing me that they at least mildly understand
number order without really even knowing what order is. If they struggle with finding
the number that comes next, that will tell me that they haven't really grasped the idea of
number order yet, or they have not mastered the numbers leading up to 20 yet.

Scoring Guidelines:

As far as scoring goes, when the students are doing the pre-assessment, I will be taking
note of who seems to be on the right track when it comes to this concept, and who is
struggling still. Once I am done with the entire lesson, I will take a look at their number
lines that they created, and I will decide if they have met the standards or not through the
worksheet. At that point they should be proficient in counting to 20 in order after our
lesson, but if they are still needing some help, I will have to do another lesson later on
that covers the same thing, or work with the child individually.

Post-Assessment:
I will assess what students have learned from the lesson by looking at their number line
worksheet that they completed, I will also just note how they are doing throughout the
lessons. Those will determine whether they have met the standard or not.

Scoring Guidelines:
When I am done looking at the number line worksheets and looking at my notes of how
each student was doing throughout the lesson. If they look like they have learned a lot
throughout the lesson about number order and they do the number line correctly, I will
mark them down as completing those learning standards.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Describe how instruction can be differentiated (changed or altered) to meet the

needs of gifted or accelerated students: One way that I mentioned before that I can
make this lesson a little more advanced for Students who are accelerated is when we are
playing the “Blast Off, Numerical Order” game, they can exceed 20 in the game and
keep putting the numbers in order to whatever level they would like. This is one way
that a student can challenge themselves if they are already proficient in counting to 20 in
order before we begin the lesson.

Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might
be struggling with the material: If a student seems to be struggling with these
standards even after the lesson, I will try to create a game for them either online or with
flashcards that I will play with them individually, and that I will also encourage their
parents to play with them at home to help them with counting to 20.

Extension

This is another YouTube video that teaches kids how to count to 20. If parents are
wanting some additional help for their child with this standard, they could show this
video at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azIG0kLIlgs

This is a pin on Pinterest that shows an activity that can be done with a Kindergartner
that may help them with counting to 20 and really understanding counting and
visualizing it. This activity may benefit hands on and visual learners the best.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/308989224421888517/

Homework Options and Home Connections

After this lesson, I would give parents some online resources that they could do with
their child at home that might help them understand this concept better. We could create
a Kahoot that parents could do with their children at home, the child can play the iPad
game that we played in class at home, they could create online flashcards to help their
student with counting, etc.

Interdisciplinary Connections

Since we are doing a lesson on counting to 20 in order, we are also maybe incorporate
some addition into the lesson. I could explain to the students that if you look at a
number, the next number after that one is always that number plus one! And if you look
at the same number, the number before it is always that number minus one! This
connection might make it easier for students once we actually do get into the topic of
addition and subtraction.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers
 A Computer
 A Smartboard
 Number Line Worksheets

For students
 iPads
 Smartboard
 Scissors
 Glue
 Pencil

Key Vocabulary

Order- the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other

according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.

Additional Notes

After this lesson in following weeks, I would start to go beyond 20 and keep doing
lessons that have to do with counting in order until we get all the way up to 100 so that
we can fully complete K.CC.1.