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Number Sense with Barnyard Babble

This comes from Julia, a student in the Basic Online Course (BOC)

1. PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION:
A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy
– Barnyard Babble

2. IDENTIFY THE OBJECTIVES: Content Objective: To compare size of numbers.

Collaborative Objective: Making Responsible Decisions, Participating fully, solving problems creatively, celebrating achievement.

Social skills: Listening Attentively, No put-downs, Mutual respect.

3. IDENTIFY THE STRATEGY(IES):
Through the energizer Barnyard Babble students will get into groups based on their animal card. Once in their groups, the class will compare the number of students in each group and create math sentences using the academic words: more, less, equal.
Before beginning Barnyard Babble, students will reflect on the agreements and explain what agreements will be important for the activity, why and how they will follow the agreements.

4. ASK REFLECTION QUESTIONS BASED ON THE OBJECTIVES:
Content: Which animal group as more students? Which animal group has less students than another group? Which animal groups have an equal number of students?

Collaborative:
– What did you do when you someone couldn’t find their animal group?
– How did you find your group?

Personal:
– How do you feel you helped your group find each other?

5. PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR APPRECIATION:
– Turn to your group members and share with them: “It was helpful when ____.

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