The purpose of this activity is for students to think of different ways a story can be represented. Students hear the forg story for the second time. In addition to explaining what the story is about, students also think of ways the class could act out the story. Acting out gives students opportunities to make sense of a context (MP1). Monitor for suggestions of acting out the story with concrete objects, such as cubes, fingers, or students, as well as representing the story with pictures. In the Activity Synthesis, the class acts out the story in one of the ways suggested by the students. 

• Read the story.
• Act out the story as a class using a previously identified suggestion of using concrete objects or pictures. Only use one method to act out the story. The class will use a different method to act it out in the next lesson.

The purpose of this activity is for students to get enough pencils for each group of students. Students might get enough pencils for their group by giving one pencil to each person in the group. Students may also notice that the number of students and pencils are the same when they make a group of pencils with one pencil for every student.

• “How did you know that you had enough pencils for each student in the picture to get 1? (I put 1 pencil next to each picture.)
• “I need to get enough pencils so that each student has one. What should I do?” (You should give each student 1 pencil. You should count the students and see how many there are. Then you can get that many pencils.)

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that focus on using math tools and recognizing quantities without counting. 

Students choose from any of the previously introduced stages of these centers:

• Connecting Cubes
• Pattern Blocks
• Geoblocks
• Picture Books