Adding Adventure Story!

Nicole West

Tier 1

Lesson Plan

Adding Adventure Story

Students will be able to solve addition word problems within 10 using manipulatives and drawings.

Understanding addition word problems helps students connect math to their everyday lives and builds foundational problem-solving skills.

Audience

Kindergarten Students

Time

15 minutes

Approach

Interactive story, hands-on manipulatives, and visual aids.

Materials

Slide Deck: Adding Adventure Story, Worksheet: My Adding Adventure, Counting bears or other small manipulatives, and Pencils or crayons

Prep

Gather Materials

5 minutes

Review the Slide Deck: Adding Adventure Story and familiarize yourself with the story.
- Print copies of the Worksheet: My Adding Adventure for each student.
- Prepare a set of counting bears or other small manipulatives for each student or group.

Step 1

Warm-Up: Counting Chant (2 minutes)

2 minutes

Begin with a fun counting chant or song to get students engaged and ready for math.
- Ask students, "Who can tell me what 'add' means?" (Expected: to put together, to make more).

Step 2

Introduce the Adding Adventure Story (5 minutes)

5 minutes

Display the Slide Deck: Adding Adventure Story.
- Introduce the concept of word problems as

Step 3

Guided Practice: Solving Word Problems (6 minutes)

6 minutes

Present each slide of the Slide Deck: Adding Adventure Story one by one.
- For each word problem, read it aloud clearly.
- Model how to use manipulatives to represent the numbers in the problem and then combine them to find the total.
- Encourage students to use their own manipulatives to solve along with you.
- After solving with manipulatives, guide students to draw a picture to represent the problem on their Worksheet: My Adding Adventure.
- Write the number sentence (e.g., 2 + 3 = 5) on the board and have students write it on their worksheet.

Step 4

Wrap-Up: Share and Reflect (2 minutes)

2 minutes

Have a few students share their drawings and solutions for one of the word problems.
- Ask: "What did you learn about adding today?" or "When might you use adding in real life?"
- Collect the Worksheet: My Adding Adventure.

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Slide Deck

Welcome to Our Adding Adventure!

Get ready for a math journey! ➕🐻🌟

We're going to solve some fun adding stories today!

Welcome students and introduce the exciting journey we're about to take into addition! Explain that we'll be using our math brains to solve some special stories.

What's an Adding Story?

It's a math story with numbers!

We read the story to figure out how many we have altogether or in total.

Explain what a word problem is in simple terms: it's a math story where we have to figure out how many in total.

Bear Buddies!

🐻🐻

Two bears were playing in the forest.

Then, three more bears came to play! 🐻🐻🐻

How many bears are playing altogether?

Read the problem aloud. Guide students to use their counting bears to represent the 2 bears and then the 3 more bears. Count them all together. Then, discuss how to draw it.

Apple Pickin' Fun!

🍎🍎🍎🍎

Sarah picked 4 red apples.

Her friend picked 2 more red apples. 🍎🍎

How many apples do they have in total?

Read the problem aloud. Guide students to use their manipulatives to represent the 4 apples and then the 2 more apples. Count them all together. Then, discuss how to draw it.

Fluttering Butterflies!

🦋🦋🦋

Three butterflies were flying in the garden.

Four more butterflies joined them! 🦋🦋🦋🦋

How many butterflies are there altogether?

Read the problem aloud. Guide students to use their manipulatives to represent the 3 butterflies and then the 4 more butterflies. Count them all together. Then, discuss how to draw it.

Great Adding, Adventurers!

You are amazing addition problem solvers!

We put groups together to find the total.

Review what they learned and praise their effort. Reinforce that adding means putting groups together.

Worksheet

My Adding Adventure

Name: ________________________

Let's go on an adding adventure! Read the story, draw a picture to show what happened, and then write the number sentence.

1. Bear Buddies!

Two bears were playing in the forest. Then, three more bears came to play! How many bears are playing altogether?

Draw your picture here:

Write your number sentence here:

2. Apple Pickin' Fun!

Sarah picked 4 red apples. Her friend picked 2 more red apples. How many apples do they have in total?

Draw your picture here:

Write your number sentence here:

3. Fluttering Butterflies!

Three butterflies were flying in the garden. Four more butterflies joined them! How many butterflies are there altogether?

Draw your picture here:

Write your number sentence here:

Answer Key

My Adding Adventure Answer Key

Here are the solutions for the "My Adding Adventure" worksheet.

1. Bear Buddies!

Problem: Two bears were playing in the forest. Then, three more bears came to play! How many bears are playing altogether?

Thought Process:

Start with the first group: 2 bears.
Add the second group: 3 bears.
Count them all together: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Number Sentence: 2 + 3 = 5

Answer: There are 5 bears playing altogether.

2. Apple Pickin' Fun!

Problem: Sarah picked 4 red apples. Her friend picked 2 more red apples. How many apples do they have in total?

Thought Process:

Start with Sarah's apples: 4 apples.
Add her friend's apples: 2 apples.
Count them all together: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Number Sentence: 4 + 2 = 6

Answer: They have 6 apples in total.

3. Fluttering Butterflies!

Problem: Three butterflies were flying in the garden. Four more butterflies joined them! How many butterflies are there altogether?

Thought Process:

Start with the first group: 3 butterflies.
Add the second group: 4 butterflies.
Count them all together: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Number Sentence: 3 + 4 = 7

Answer: There are 7 butterflies altogether.