Lesson Cycle

Lesson Title/Topic: 1st grade Math

Target Concept: Skip counting by twos
Standards/Rationale: TEKS (B) skip count by twos, fives, and tens to determine the total number of objects up to 120 in a set;
Lesson Objectives: Given a hundreds chart, the student will recite the twos
by skip counting to 100 with 90% accuracy.

Assessment: Students will to skip count by twos using manipulatives and playing math
games placed in the learning centers.

Materials:
Coin counters, pegs, unifix cubes, hundreds chart in a sheet protector, dry erase markers, a box of stickers, can of popsicle sticks label with each students name.
Lesson Cycle: (Direct instruction) Skip counting by twos
The teacher will:
Focus/Mental Set: When counting to 100, we say every number on the
hundreds chart. We do not skip any of the numbers. If we skip count, we can
get to 100 faster. [Use the can with popsicle sticks to call on three students to
ask, what is skip counting?] After the responses, point to the hundreds chart
and explain skip counting is counting by numbers other than one. If we choose
the twos, we count 2 forward and add 2 each time to get the next number. Read
aloud the words to the song and model the simple movements. [Tell students to
sing the song with the movements as you point to the words.]

The student will:

While students are sitting on the floor, they can answer questions and listen to the teacher
explain the lesson. When directed by the teacher, the student can turn to a partner and
discuss what they know about skip counting. As a whole group, everyone reads the words
to the song: Get up, get down, get up, get down, were going to count by twos, me and
you, all the numbers will be even, that is just what we do, were going to take both hands,
were going to take both feet, were going to clap our hands and stomp our feet to the
beat, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48,
50. [After singing the song, students will transition back to their seats.]

Teacher Input: Draw on the promethean board 20 shoes to count the shoes by ones from
1-20. Explain we want to choose another number other than one to count faster. Twos,
count 2 forward and add 2 each time to get the next number making a pattern. Pointing
to the shoes, you count 2 forward from 2 and get 4, count 2 again, you get 6, then 2
again and you get 8 and 2 again to get 10. [Demonstrate and ask student to join 12-20].
Guided Practice: The teacher color the numbers on the hundreds chart by twos with a
dry erase marker. After coloring the numbers, students will engage in a math lesson on
the promethean board.
Independent Practice: You can count it; you can keep it: counting by twos fosters the
student being able to recite the twos from memory with an incentive of keeping the
numbers of stickers counted in the activity. The second activity promotes students
working together to solve math problems together. Students are able to get to know each
other more during activities. The third activity offers the fun of learning, praising one
another on each bean bag made into the basket, and working together The teacher will
walk around each desk and learning center to engage with students.

Students will have a set of snap unfix cubes. They will count their cubes while the teacher is
counting the shoes by ones on the promethean board. Teacher will ask students to observe while she
counts the shoes using a pattern, count 2 forward and adding 2 each time to get the next number
from 2-10. Students will join the teacher to finish counting the remaining shoes from 12-20 using
the pattern.
Students will color the numbers on their hundreds chart while saying the numbers together. While
viewing the math lesson, the teacher pulls students names from the class can. When chosen, the
student can interactively solve skip counting on the promethean board.

Closure:
Review what is skips counting, why do we use it, and read and sing the song, twos.

Looking at the math chart wall, students can recall skip counting is counting another number other
one. We use it to count faster. Students can share a real-world situation to count by the twos.

Students are provided three activities to show how skip counting help you count faster: You can
count it; you can keep it: counting by twos. The students will pick out stickers and count by 2s.
However high the student can count, the student can keep them. The second activity, students will
work in their groups to solve the missing twos numbers on a hundreds chart and worksheet.
Students will throw bean bags in a basket to count by twos while a partner writes their score on a
blank counting sheet. It gives opportunity for the students to use the pattern: count forward 2 and
add 2 each time to get the next number.

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Options:
Enrichment: With skip counting, you can count forwards and backwards which means
you can either start from 2 at the top and count to 100 or start from 100 at the bottom to
countdown to 2. With a partner, take turn to count by twos backward. While one counts,
the other partner can write the numbers on a blank hundreds chart.
Modifications/Correctives:
Aide, Ms. Ross, will join J.E during instruction.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYloCGfSoOk
https://vimeo.com/9526774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg7mcuaw3o0

Reteach: Teacher will work with students during planning period or scheduled tutoring days to
understand skip counting the pattern of counting 2 forward from 2 with teddy grahams math game
manipulatives. Students will use online math games for addition; skip counting, writing the missing
numbers during scheduled Computer Lab.