I start the week by reading an informational book about alligators. This helps the kids activate their schema and make connections to our math activities using an alligator. Here are some book titles for this:
Next, I introduce Mr. Alligator. (A double-sided paper alligator puppet enlarged from student version.) Mr. Alligator is not like the alligators in the book... he only eats numbers! Then, I play the "Number Eating Alligator" song. The kids L.O.V.E. this! I continue to play this song multiple times while the students make their own Mr. Alligator puppets.
Once the puppets are made, I teach a chant. (The chant is on the first page of the presentation link below.) On the second day of the unit, we use a work mat on legal size paper to practice the skill of identifying greater than and less than. The work mat has a fish bowl outline on the left side and one on the right side. The students also have their own Mr. Alligator puppet on a stick and a small cup of goldfish crackers. Once they have all of their materials, I use this presentation on my Promethean board for the activity:
Throughout the unit, the kids like to play these online greater than and less than games:
If you're still with me after all of this.....
....here are two practice sheets to also use throughout your greater than and less than math unit:
Click {Here} to Download Practice Sheet #2
(Please don't judge me... both of these sheets were made a few years ago. I know I need to work on making them cute!)
Phew, that's all I have for this. I'd love to hear any ideas that you have to teach the concept of greater than and less than!
--Mrs. Pollard
I'm surprised you can use the alligator as a reference. My schoolboard has told us we CANNOT use it, no matter what. However, the children really understand it better that way.
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