Amanda Doyle

Lesson Plan: Learn to count/multiply by 3s and 4s

Grade: 3
Student learner objectives:
Students will learn the multiples of 3 and 4 (up to 10)
Students will sing Twinkle Twinkle and Row Row Row Your
Boat as a class
Students will learn the lyrics to these songs but replaced with
numbers
Students will write the new lyrics to the song to practice
memorization
Students will be given multiplication worksheets for 3s and 4s
to prepare for a quiz
Materials:
-Visual table of multiplication facts

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30
4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40
-Smart board to project lyrics

-Twinkle Twinkle lyrics

http://www.babycenter.com/0_lullaby-lyrics-twinkle-twinkle-littlestar_6731.bc
-Row Row Row Your Boat lyrics
http://www.songsforteaching.com/nurseryrhymes/rowrowrowyou
rboat2kind.php
-Paper and pencil to write lyrics
-Multipliation worksheets for 3s and 4s
-3s
http://www.theteachersguide.com/multiplicationfacts/multi
plication3-001-001.jpg
-4s
http://www.theteachersguide.com/multiplicationfacts/multi
plicationfour-001-001.jpg

Curricular Connections:
Reading, Math, Language, Writing, Music
Procedure:
1. Show students a table of 3s and 4s (math)
2. Show the students the lyrics of the songs that will go along with
these facts (reading)
3. Sing Twinkle Twinkle as a class (language) (music)
4. Teach the students the new lyrics that have the words replaced
with numbers
5. Show the students that only a portion of Twinkle Twinkle will
be used
6. Have students write down the lyrics to keep with themselves
(writing)
7. Sing Row Row Row Your Boat as a class (language) (music)
8. Teach the students the new lyrics that have the words replaced
with numbers
9. Have students write down the lyrics to keep with themselves
(writing)
10.
Students will be given a worksheet quizzing them on
factors of 3 and 4 to prepare for a quiz later on (math)
11.
Once these songs are memorized, there are also songs
for factors of 6, 7, 8, and 9 to follow up (music) (math)
Song Lesson: (Music)

Twinkle Twinkle

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

3, 6 9, 12 15 18
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
21
24
27
30
How I wonder what you are!

Song Lesson: (Music)

Row Row Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
4
8 12
16
Row, row, row your boat
20
24
Gently down the stream,
28
32
36
40
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
I can count by 4s!
Life is but a dream
Procedure for teaching the song:

1. Have the students sing the song through first without the new
lyrics.
2. Sing the song to the student using the new lyrics and show
them which number replaces which word
3. Have the students sing the song with you twice
4. Have the students sing it twice without the teacher singing
5. Have the students write the lyrics down to further memorize
these songs

Common Core State Standards: CCSS

Math
1. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.4
Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or
division equation relating three whole numbers. For example,
determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in
each of the equations 8 ? = 48, 5 = _ 3, 6 6 = ?
2. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.C.7
Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as
the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g.,
knowing that 8 5 = 40, one knows 40 5 = 8) or properties of
operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all
products of two one-digit numbers.
3. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.D.9
Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition
table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties
of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is
always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be
decomposed into two equal addends.

Music
1. 1.3 Identify melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre in selected
pieces of music when presented aurally.
2. 2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.