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Karen Farley

November 23

1st grade

Title: Less than/greater than monsters

Grade: 1

Materials: A < shape cut out of a sturdy material (manilla folder, etc.)

Drawing utensils -- colored pencils, crayons, etc.

Construction paper

glue

The book The Hungry Thing

Objectives: Students will make a <> "monster"

Students will demonstrate proper use of scissors and glue as well as the proper way to hold crayons, colored pencils, etc.

Students will use their <>"monsters" to demonstrate the concept of less than and greater than.

Procedure:

The teacher will read the story "The Hungry Thing". Students and teacher will discuss how the very hungry thing likes to eat; if he were given the opportunity to each 3 cookies or 8 cookies, the monster would rather eat the largest number of cookies, 8. The teacher will use her <> monster to demonstrate the monster preferring to eat 8 cookies rather than 3.

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Students will decorate their own <> monsters using construction paper to make teeth, crayons, colored pencils, etc. to draw features on their <> monsters.

The teacher will pass out a few beans, pieces of pasta, etc. to each student. Students will then place 3 items on the left and 8 items on the right and decide with way the "monster" should face. The teacher can direct students to put different numbers of items on their desks and have the students decide which way the "monster" should face.

Evaluation: The teacher can observe the students as they decorate their monsters -- are the students holding their pencils correctly? Are they demonstrating proper use of scissors and glue?

The teacher can also evaluate the students' understand of less than and greater than by watching the students to see if they face their monsters the correct way.

Enrichment Activities: The teacher should show examples of what the undecorated less than and greater than symbols looks like. She should also show examples of how it is used in math.