Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v4 - KG 1

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Performance objectives

• Overview:
• This lesson introduces our young learners to the foundational concept of addition by combining or "joining" sets of objects. In our daily lives in Ghana, we are always putting things together—adding more yam to the cooking pot, getting more crayons to colour with, or having more friends join our game. This lesson helps children understand this idea with numbers, teaching them that when we combine groups, the total amount becomes bigger. We will use familiar objects like stones, bottle caps, and fruits to make learning fun, concrete, and relevant.
• Learning Objectives:
• By the end of this lesson, the learner will be able to:
• Count a given set of objects accurately up to 5.

Lesson summary

This lesson introduces our young learners to the foundational concept of addition by combining or "joining" sets of objects. In our daily lives in Ghana, we are always putting things together—adding more yam to the cooking pot, getting more crayons to colour with, or having more friends join our game. This lesson helps children understand this idea with numbers, teaching them that when we combine groups, the total amount becomes bigger. We will use familiar objects like stones, bottle caps, and fruits to make learning fun, concrete, and relevant.

Lesson notes

This lesson focuses on the concrete action of addition, which we call "combining" or "joining" at this level. We will avoid formal symbols like '+' and '=' and focus on the language and the physical action.

Key Idea 1: What is a Group? A group (or a set) is just a collection of things. We can have a group of stones, a group of books, or a group of children. Example: "Look, here is a group of 3 bottle caps. Let's count them: one, two, three."

Key Idea 2: What does "Combine" or "Join" mean? Combining means putting two or more groups together to make one big group. We use words like: "and" (e.g., 2 mangoes and 1 mango) "put together" "altogether" "makes"

Key Idea 3: Finding the "Total" The total is the number of items you have after you have combined the groups. To find the total, we must count all the items in the new, big group.