Catch Those Fish!

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Model the process of ordering numbers and placing one number with each fish, moving the sticks and writing the correct number below. Use the teacher manipulatives you have to give students a visual of ordering numbers and one-to-one correspondence.
• Emphasize that each fish should have only one number.

Guided Practice

• Distribute one sandwich bag, filled with the counting manipulatives, to each student or pair of students if you want the students to work in pairs.
• Tell your students that you would like them to put their numbers in order and match the fish with the numbers when you call a certain number out.
• Ask your students to use wooden sticks to represent each number called out. Have them match it with a written a number.
• Call out several numbers, and have your students practice ordering the numbers correctly and corresponding each number with the fish.
• Scan the room after each number to check for accuracy. For example, call out the number three, and have the students work on making the number three with their fish, wooden sticks, and showing the correct number card.

Independent working time

• Since this lesson primarily teaches one-to-one correspondence between an object through correct ordering, provide the students with a visual with the numbers written in order on the board.
• Have the students complete the Fish in the Pond worksheet, cutting and gluing the fish to match the number designated on each pond.
• Direct your students to complete ponds 1, 2, and 4, labeling each fish and drawing a line between each fish and the number.
• Have your students complete the 9 pond as a challenge question.