Unit 4, Lesson 7
Use Objects to Represent Stories
Kindergarten
Preparation
Lesson Narrative
In a previous lesson, students told and acted out stories. Representing a story with objects may be more difficult because students have to understand the connection between the physical objects and the objects in the story. The first activity begins with the teacher acting out the story with representations of people, such as toys or dolls, and then transitions into students using counters.
Throughout the lesson, students should identify what the counters represent, based on the context of the story. The purpose of the Lesson Synthesis is to discuss how to use objects to represent addition and subtraction in a story (MP2).
- Representation
- MLR8
- Create (orally) Add To and Take From stories.
- Represent an Add To or Take From story problem using words and objects.
- Let’s use objects to show a story.
Required Materials
Activity 1
Activity 2
Required Preparation
- 7 objects that represent people are needed, such as plastic toys or dolls. There are also images of people that can be cut out of the provided blackline master.
- The playground mat is printed in the student workbook and is also included in the blackline master.
- Each student needs a bag of 10 two-color counters.
- Each group of 2 needs 10 two-color counters.
- Materials from previous centers:
- Subtraction Towers, Stage 1
- 5-Frames, Stages 1 and 2
- Build Shapes, Stages 1 and 2
- Counting Collections, Stage 1
Suggested Centers
NoneTeacher Reflection Questions
As students used objects to represent stories, what evidence did you see that students are making connections between the objects and the things in the story that the objects are representing?