Introductory Lesson

Objectives Get to know students’ interests and learning styles

Formatively assess student’s ability to:

- Read / follow instructions
- Draw and identify 2D shapes
- Addition
- Distinguish between odd and even numbers
- Repeating patterns
- Fine motor skills
- Student cooperation with partners
Assessment - Worksheet
- Mitten Materials
- Conversations
Differentiation - Going through the example on the - PowerPoint
smart board (visual) and reading - Handout
through the steps (auditory). - Mitten
- Fill in the blanks - Colouring Materials
- Challenge to extend students
learning on the back, for those that
finish early.
- May need to draw shapes for some
students
Intro
- Go through the PowerPoint about me!
5 Minutes - Say we are doing a mitten glyph today (Any guesses as to what a glyph is? It
is a symbol to represent information for the purposes of communicating or
writing. Egyptians and Mayan people used them. Now used in typography.)
- What is a mitten used for? (keeping our hands warm)
Body
- Handout worksheets
45 Minutes - Go through the worksheet and refer to my examples
- Make sure to explain where you want things to be circled and where you
want things to be written
- For each shape get students to remind you what they are
- Triangle 3 sided
- Square 4 equal sides
- Circle round no sides
- Explain the challenges quickly
- Need to circle answers
- Elbow partners
- Ask the students if they have any questions Explain that they are doing the
worksheet first then the mitten. Once they have finished the mitten there are
challenges on the back of the worksheet.
- Students must finish the handout first then ask for a mitten to start creating
- Have mitten and colouring materials at the front of the room and students
can grab them once they have checked in.
- Circulate and make sure the students are understanding the task.
 Conclusion
- How many people learn best by
10 Minutes  Working in a group
 Working with a partner
 Working alone?
- Who has the most amount of family members?
- Who has the most amount of pets?

Challenge review:
- Anyone want to share their pattern?
- What did you get for the sum of triangles
- What is the largest sum in the class?
- Who has the second largest family?

Tying into after the break:

- We will be doing surveys based on our answers
- Collect data and make pictograph
- Anyone know what a pictograph is?