Add Sum Frogs

Students will join me on the carpet for math. I will have a flipchart on the Smartboard to use for the lesson. On the flipchart, I will have a big lily pad split in two sections. Around the lily pad there will be ten frogs. One child will roll a giant cube die and count the dots. They will say how many frogs need to be added to the lily pad on the left. Another student will touch the Smartboard and add that number of fogs on the lily pad (Every time a frog is clicked on it makes a “ribbit” sound). A third student will roll the die again and say how many frogs need to be added. A student will then go to the board and add that number of frogs to the right side of the lily pad. As a class, we will write an addition problem under the lily pad. Students on the floor will write the addition problem on a worksheet, and one student will write the numbers on the Smartboard. During the activity, we will create a video by recording each step. Afterwards, we will play the video and the children will watch the frogs hop onto the lily pad one-by-one. We will repeat this process a couple times so each child gets a turn either rolling the die and counting frogs or adding the frogs to the lily pad. Throughout the activity I will assess the children and collect data. This is a great activity that the children are participating hands-on; instead of paper and pencil.