Bonnie Huckaby 2030 Lesson Plan

“Teeth, Tails & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book” (Christopher Wormell) Also dictionary.com

Face-‐to-‐face lesson with Kindergarten students using incorporated technology.

“Teeth, Tails & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book” (Christopher Wormell) to Kindergarten Students

Provide students with knowledge of various animals in the animal kingdom and plant the seed for scientific vocabulary. Reinforce numbers one through twenty as well as provide visuals of said numbers in text so that they may be recognized in reading. By the end of this lesson students will write a sentence about their favorite animal during the language arts activity and categorize it correctly with 90 percent accuracy. Students will also fill in their number chart with 80 percent accuracy during the math activity. They will use their knowledge of numbers as well as their reading skill to figure out what number symbol goes in each blank box. The number will be in its written form in the top of each box, even for the problems where students are expected to fill in the number symbol. This is to help kids connect written numbers to symbol numbers as well as understand their order.


Model with Mathematics: Shows how counting can be applied to the real world in zoological studies Reason abstractly and quantitatively: The relation of numbers to actual creatures help students to gain a better sense of quantity. (Kindergarten standard) Know the number names and count sequence: I will be reading the pages for the numbers ten through twenty to reinforce those numbers for the students due to the fact that they are having difficulty in that area. The book has both numerical and alphabetic representations of the numbers so the kids will be able to connect them to one another.

Students will be asked to write a sentence about their favorite aquatic animal and then draw a picture of that animal.

Lives under water

Kids might not relate to the definition of a lemur in the book so King Julian from Madagascar would be a good example. In fact, you could even play “I like to Move It” for the kids and show the video of the lemur dancing.

A complicated definition but a good starting point would be to say that it is furry and go from there.


Also a complicated definition for kindergarten, move children’s thinking in the direction of snakes

and lizards

A shape, check that kids understand the formation of said shape. Also refer to it as a rhombus.

This book is good because you can focus on the pages containing numbers that students are struggling with.

A type of crab that latches onto animals such as whales. Spongebob often says “Oh, barnacles!” in Spongebob.

The goal is to build on the students’ preexisting knowledge of animals and refresh numbers ten through twenty.

Read aloud space, Projector, Power point, Counting book, Scanner, Pencils, Paper, Pointer, computer, PDF files, Worksheets, Crayons

Prior to the lesson I will have scanned the pages from the power point into a pdf and enlarge

the pages. I will also have links to Youtube saved to a word document that will be used to related videos


throughout the lesson. Set up the projector with a view of the title page for the counting book up on the screen.

I will instruct students to come and sit in the reading area and gather their attention.

I will begin reading the story to the students, using my pointer so that they can follow along. I will ask students to spell out each number as I reach it. For example, I will turn to the page with the number five on it and the students will say “f-‐i-‐v-‐e” as I point to each individual letter in the word. I will also pause to explain the specified categories listed above.

When I approach the word barnacle, I will pull up a Youtube video of Spongebob Squarepants saying “Oh Barnacles” and then an instructional video describing what a barnacle is. This will take 2 minutes at most.

When I get to the example on Lemurs, I will pull up an informational clip from Youtube depicting Lemurs. Then I will pull up the “I Like to Move it” video from the children’s film “Madagascar” on Youtube and allow the students to get up and dance before returning to the story. This will take 6 minutes total.

I finish reading the book to the students and go around in a circle asking each of them what their favorite animal is. Then I will ask for examples of aquatic creatures, Reptiles, and Mammals. The discussion will last 7 minutes. Reading the book over all will take 20 minutes.

Students will be asked to return to their desk and write the following sentences: “My favorite animal is a__________________because___________________________.” Then they will circle whether it is an: aquatic creature, mammal, or reptile.


Students will draw a picture below. This will take 10 minutes.

Students will then be asked to fill in the blanks in a number chart that counts from 1-‐20. The number chart will have both the written and symbolic forms of the numbers but the kids will only have to fill in the numeric parts of the chart as the blanks will have the written forms of the numbers there as a hint for those who want to sound it out. This will take 10 minutes.

During the times that I am not asking for a whole class response, I will require

students to raise their hands to speak. Students pestering other students or talking during the lesson will be made to move to the front of the group. If a student is persistently distracting or causes distress to another student, they will have to move down a color on the discipline chart and go sit at their desk by themselves.

Bonnie Huckaby 2030 Lesson Plan

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