Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v4 - KG 1

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Performance objectives

• Introduction:
• This week, we will learn a very exciting and useful skill: putting groups of things together to find out how many we have in total. This is the beginning of addition! In our daily lives in Ghana, we are always combining things. For example, when we help Mummy at the market, she might buy 2 yams from one seller and 3 from another. We need to know how many yams she has in all. When we play with our friends, we might share our bottle caps or stones. Learning to combine groups helps us count our toys, share food, and understand the world around us better. This lesson uses familiar objects like stones, bottle caps, and fingers to make learning fun and easy.
• Learning Objectives:
• By the end of this lesson, the learner will be able to:
• Identify and count the number of objects in two separate small groups (up to 5 objects in each group).

Lesson summary

This week, we will learn a very exciting and useful skill: putting groups of things together to find out how many we have in total. This is the beginning of addition! In our daily lives in Ghana, we are always combining things. For example, when we help Mummy at the market, she might buy 2 yams from one seller and 3 from another. We need to know how many yams she has in all. When we play with our friends, we might share our bottle caps or stones. Learning to combine groups helps us count our toys, share food, and understand the world around us better. This lesson uses familiar objects like stones, bottle caps, and fingers to make learning fun and easy.

Lesson notes

This lesson introduces the foundational concept of addition through the concrete action of combining sets. At the KG1 level, we avoid formal symbols like '+' and '='. Instead, we focus on the action and the language.

Key Concepts: Group/Set: A collection of items. For example, a group of 3 mangoes, or a set of 4 bottle caps. Combining/Putting Together: This is the physical action of joining two separate groups to make one big group. It’s the "doing" part of addition. Total/In All: This is the final number we get after we have combined the groups and counted all the items together. It answers the question, "How many are there altogether?" Counting On: A more advanced strategy where you start from the number in the first group and continue counting the items in the second group. While the main focus is on recounting all, some learners may naturally start doing this.

Step-by-Step Explanation with Worked Examples:

We will use a story-telling approach with concrete objects.