Lesson 4
Children compare different arrangements of 4 and 5 dots, read Let’s Count and other books, and play the digital Birthday Café game.
Circle Time
Dot Plates
5–10 min.
Children QUICKLY identify or compare the number of dots on a plate, focusing on the arrangements of 4’s and 5’s.
View ActivityLet’s Count
10–15 min.
Read the book Let’s Count, by Tana Hoban.
View ActivityLearning Centers
Birthday Café
10–15 min.
Digital Learning Center: Children seat the correct number of people at each table and then make sure that everyone gets the same amount of food to eat.
View ActivityCity Skate
10–15 min.
Digital Learning Center: Children help Teenie collect groups of two, three, four and five objects as she skateboards through the city.
View ActivityJungle Gym
10–15 min.
Digital Learning Center: Children choose and decorate a robot with stickers, then dangle robots with the same number of dots together on the jungle gym.
View ActivityCafé Lotto Match
15 min.
Hands-On Learning Center: Children match groups of diners to tables with the same number of chairs in this fast-paced game.
View ActivitySkateboard Bingo
15–20 min.
Hands-On Learning Center: Children play a game of bingo where they try to QUICKLY recognize the number of dots on caller cards and fill up their bingo boards.
View ActivityJungle Gym Board Game
15–20 min.
Hands-On Learning Center: In this board game, children roll a die and then move their robot game pieces across the rungs of a jungle gym to the finish line.
View ActivitySubitizing Books
10–15 min.
Book Corner: Children read subitizing books.
View ActivityOutdoors
Roll and Hop
15–20 min.
Children roll a die and hop that many times toward the finish line.
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