Pass The Snake!

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Tell the students that you would like to repeat the game but this time you would like to play Pass the Paper.
• Tell students that the same rules apply as Pass the Marker, but instead of saying the number the students must now write the number and then pass the paper.
• Remind the students that they can look for patterns in the numbers to help them write the number that comes next.
• Give the clipboard, marker, and graph paper to the first student and set 60 seconds on the timer.

Guided Practice

• Divide the students into groups of 5.
• Issue a copy of the Sally the Silly Snake worksheet to each group and tell them that their job is to work as a team to fill in the numbers 1-120 inside of the snake by playing “Pass The Snake!”
• Review the following rules with students:

  1.  They cannot fill the paper in for anyone else except themselves.
  2.  They can help each other by encouraging their team members to look for patterns.
  3.  Every square must be filled in, if it isn’t it means that they miscounted somewhere along the way.
  4.  The first team to fill in all the squares correctly wins.

• Allow students to start the game and let them color, cut, and glue the snake once they have finished the game.
• Walk around and monitor the students' progress as the game goes on, stopping every now and then to help them.

Independent working time

• Issue a copy of the Count Down worksheet to each student once the activity is done.