Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name:Colleen Draper Lesson Title: Movement through Addition

Date: 3-17-24 Grade Level:1st grade Circle one: ECE x PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):
Cognitive Development. Symbolic Thought. 2a. Demonstrates increasingly ability to think symbolically.
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Mathematics.Number Sense.1a. Develops understanding of the stable order of the counting sequence

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Worksheet on basic addition problems

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

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One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
Count numbers and add them
together with their solution
Dance in groups
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and Music, add, subtract, number, group, flashcards, marker,
skill?) dance
Checlist and anecdotal notes

Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile

your evidence into a class or group view?) Procedural steps:
One Assessed Developmental
Skill: pictures • Gather students in a circle and explain that
Motor Movement today they will be learning addition through
movement and dance.
• Discuss briefly what addition means, using
simple terms appropriate for first graders (e.g.,
Differentiation: adding two or more numbers together to find the
total).
Safety Considerations: ELL learners can have partner during this • Introduce the concept of movement-based
Not running into others while learning and explain that they will be using their
dancing bodies to act out addition problems.
• Give each group a set of number cards
(0-10) that they have created
• Play upbeat music and instruct students to
dance around the room
• Pause the music intermittently and call out
an addition problem (e.g., "3 + 2")
• Each group must quickly come together,
hold up the corresponding number cards, and
perform a dance move to represent the sum
• Encourage creativity and silliness in their
dance moves

Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real-life, hands-on

materials.)
Notecards

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Resources & References:

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)

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