Count on Me Lesson Plan
Lesson Objective:
The objective of this pedagogical exercise is to foster in kindergarten students the ability to identify
and label numerical quantities in the literary work "Count on Me". As a result of this activity, learners
may observe and question various aspects of the narrative, leading to a more comprehensive
understanding. Students will acquire proficiency in recognizing 1-4 groups with ease, without the
need for explicit counting.
Procedures:
   1.   Students will put into groups of 2.
   2.   I will display a page from a picture book that has multiple groups with up to 4 things.
   3.   Students will be asked “What do you notice? What do you wonder?” Students will then be
        asked to discuss your thinking with your partner.
   4.   Each group will answer “How many ____ are there? Show your partner on your fingers or tell
        them how many ____ there are.”
   5.   As a class we will discuss how we can use our fingers or say numbers to show how many
        things there are.
   6.   Give each group of students’ access to at least one picture book. “Look for groups of things in
        your book. Use your fingers to show your partner and tell your partner how many things there
        are in the groups you find.”
   7.   Monitor for students who recognize groups of 1–4 objects without counting. 
Assessment Plan:
        Lesson Objective             Exceeding               Meet          Approaching          Far Below
                                   Expectations         Expectations       Expectations       Expectations
 The objective of this           Students are able     Students are       Students are       Students are
 pedagogical exercise is to      to identify and       able to identify   able to identify   able to identify
 foster in kindergarten          count 4 or more       and count 3-4      and count at       and count only
 students the ability to         objects. Students     objects.           least 2 objects.   1 object.
 identify and label numerical    are able to do this   Students are       Students have      Students have
 quantities in the literary      without counting      able to do this    to do this by      to do this by
 work "Count on Me". As a        on their fingers.     without            counting on        counting on
 result of this activity,                              counting on        their fingers.     their fingers.
 learners may observe and                              their fingers.
 question various aspects of
 the narrative, leading to a
 more comprehensive
 understanding. Students will
 acquire proficiency in
 recognizing 1-4 groups with
 ease, without the need for
 explicit counting.
M.K.4
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only
one number name and each number name with one and only one object.