Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v4 - KG 1

Lesson Video

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Performance objectives

• Count objects up to 10.
• Add two groups of objects together.
• Take away objects from a group.
• Solve simple adding and taking away problems.

Lesson summary

This lesson introduces our young learners to the foundational concept of subtraction, which we will call "taking away." Understanding "taking away" is a vital life skill. In our daily lives in Ghana, we use it all the time without even thinking: when we share our lunch with a friend, when we spend some of our pocket money at the school canteen, or when we see birds fly away from a tree. This lesson will use familiar objects like stones, bottle caps, and our own fingers to make the idea of "taking away" fun, practical, and easy to understand. We will focus on numbers up to 5 to build a strong and confident foundation.

Lesson notes

Concept 1: What is "Taking Away" (Subtraction)?

"Taking away" is a simple but powerful idea. It means starting with a group of things and then removing some of them. When we take some things away, the group becomes smaller. We are interested in finding out "how many are left?"

Key Vocabulary: Take Away: To remove something from a group. Left: The number of things remaining after some have been taken away. Subtract: Another word for "take away." Less: The new group has *less* than the starting group.

The Three Steps of Taking Away: