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Intern: Mary Helen Sheehan

Date: November 17, 2014
Lesson/Activity Title: Making Subtraction Stories
Standards Addressed:
Standard 1.2: Number relationships can be used to solve addition and subtraction
problems
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Purpose:
The purpose of this lesson is to reinforce last weeks lesson on subtraction and to
continue practicing writing and solving subtraction sentences.
Learning Objective(s):
Students will be able to tell subtraction stories about pictures.
Students will be able to write subtraction sentences.
Your Goals for Learners:
My goal for learners is comprehension of basic subtraction.
Your Learning Principles:
I believe that students learn best when they have many different ways to solve a problem.
This is incorporated into my lesson through the use of manipulatives and pictures in
addition to the abstract numbers to solve the subtraction problems.
Setting:
First grade classroom on the rug, facing the easel. For guided practice, students will move
to their tables to work in pairs. They will work at their tables for independent work in
their workbooks.
Materials and preparation:
Easel prepared with pictures from student book.
Math journals.
Unifix cubes.
Math workbooks.
Introduction:

After Morning Meeting, I will give the students a minute to stretch/get a drink. Then I
will give a signal for kids to come to the rug. I will give the students assigned seats,
placing students where I think they will best be able to focus.
Activity Procedure:
Anchor Task:
Show picture of squirrels and hamsters on the board.
Questions:
What do you notice about this picture?
What is the whole number of animals?
What number tells the part of animals that have tails?
What number tells the part of animals that do not have tails?
How do we put that information into a number bond?
How would we write a subtraction sentence that tells us the number of animals without
tails?
Who could label the subtraction sentence with the words, part, part and whole?
Show picture of birds on fence.
Questions:
What do you notice about this picture?
What is the whole number of birds?
What number tells the part of birds that flew away?
What number tells the part of birds that stayed on the fence?
How do we put that information into a number bond?
How would we write a subtraction sentence that tells us how many birds are left on the
fence?
Who could label the subtraction sentence with the words, part, part and whole?
Guided Practice:
Work in partners in math journals.
In your workbook, you will find two pictures. Write at least one subtraction sentence for
each picture.
Provide unifix cubes and encourage students to use them, especially if they are struggling
to comprehend.
Guiding questions if necessary:
How many are there in all?
What is this group doing?
What is the other group doing?
Independent Practice:
Workbook pages 75-78
Differentiation:

I will paste different pictures in the students math journals, according to their ability. For
some students, I will add a place so they can fill in the blanks for the first subtraction
sentence. I will pair students will students of similar abilities together so they can help
each other.
Assessment:
The math journals will help me assess if students are ready to move onto independent
work in their workbooks.
The workbooks will allow me to assess the students comprehension of the concepts and
will allow me to decide if they are ready to move on to the next lesson tomorrow, or if we
need to review.
Extensions:
In the math journals, students can continue to add more subtraction sentences for the
pictures. They can also add number bonds for each subtraction sentence.