Vocabulary Lesson
Subtraction
Grades: K-1
Time: 10 minutes
Overview
Learn about subtraction with a little help from some very little friends.
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- Computer or other device with internet + speakers.
Optional:
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- “5 Yellow Meli Bee Song Lyrics”
- “Pua and Beehive Cutouts”
- “5 Yellow Meli Bee Puppets”
- Scissors
- Tape or glue
- 5 Chopsticks (or straws, pencils, popsicle sticks, etc.)
- “5 Yellow Meli Bee Song Lyrics”
Learn vocabulary used in subtraction; and
- Sing a song to learn about subtraction.
- Learn a song to practice subtracting; and
- Learn about subtraction and equal signs and how place them in the correct positions in an equation.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4.b
Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.D.7
Understand the meaning of the equal sign.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.2
Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.1
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.5
Fluently add and subtract within 5.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.D.8
Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ – 3, 6 + 6 = _.
K-LS1-1.
Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
LS1.C:
All animals need food in order to live and grow. They obtain their food from plants or from other animals. Plants need water and light to live and grow.
Optional: Meli Bee Puppets
Before watching the video below, print out the “Pua and Beehive Cutouts” and “5 Yellow Meli Bee Puppets”to create manipulative to use while watching the video.
Parents and guardian, you can view the “5 Yellow Meli Bee Song Lyrics” to sing along with the video!