Ice Cream Addition to Five

Kindergarten Math, ESL

by Sharon Schellenberg August 20, 2015

Music, hands-on practice, and coloring by number will make this cool addition lesson a favorite! In this lesson,
your students will practice adding numbers to five.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to add numbers to five.

Materials and preparation

Interactive whiteboard
Scissors
Crayons
Colored pencils
Class set of Ice Cream Addition worksheet
Class set of Ice Cream Color by Number
worksheet

Attachments

Ice Cream Addition and Color by Number (PDF)

Introduction (5 minutes)

Gather the students where they can see the interactive whiteboard.
Load the Ice Cream Addition Song.
Watch the song two times while encouraging your students to sing along.
Explain to your students that they will be adding numbers to five with pretend ice cream cones.
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Beginning

Ask students to name different flavors of ice cream and list student suggestions on the board before
playing the video.
Explain that "to stack" means to put things one on top of the other. In the video, scoops of ice cream are
stacked. Show an example of a stack of books.
Tell students that the plus sign was used in the video because more scoops of ice cream were stacked on
top of the ice cream cone. Have students repeat, "plus sign, more."

Intermediate

Ask students to turn and talk to a partner and name their favorite flavor of ice cream using the sentence
frame, "My favorite flavor of ice cream is ____."
In the video students hear, "Three and two is five." Explain that another way to say this is, "Three plus
two equals five." Write the equation on the board 3 + 2 = 5.

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Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (10 minutes)

Instruct your students to form a circle.

Sit in the circle with your students.
Show your students your own precolored and cut ice cream activity.
Put one pretend scoop of ice cream on your cone.
Ask your students how many scoops you have.
Put one more scoop on the cone. Again, ask your students how many scoops are on your cone.
Continue by adding different variations of scoops to the cone.
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Beginning

Ask students what shapes the ice cream scoops are (circles), and what shape the cone is (triangle).
Define a scoop as a large spoonful of ice cream, and show students an actual ice cream scoop. Tell
students to gesture with you as though scooping ice cream, and repeat, "scoop."

Intermediate

Ask students whether you will have more or less ice cream after you add scoops. Provide the sentence
frame, "If you add more scoops, you will have ____ ice cream."

Guided Practice (20 minutes)

Hand out the Ice Cream Addition worksheet.

Instruct your students to quickly color and cut out the shapes.
Give your students 5–7 minutes to complete this task.
Direct your students to throw away their scraps and bring their ice cream pieces back to the circle.
Ask your students to put one scoop on their cones. Then, have them add two more, and ask them how
many scoops there are and what the new number sentence is.
Repeat this with different numbers and variations.
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Beginning

Refer back to the list of ice cream flavors the class brainstormed during the introduction. Review the color
names of the ice cream flavors. Think aloud, "Chocolate ice cream is brown," and draw a brown circle
next to "chocolate" on the list. Continue with other popular ice cream flavors. Point to the circles on the
chart, and review color names with class.
Model quickly coloring and cutting out the shapes. Demonstrate moving the paper to cut out the circles.
Tell students to repeat, "One and two is three." Explain that another way to say this is, "One plus two
equals three." Say the number sentences both ways as students engage in the activity.

Intermediate

Students can play ice cream shop in partners. Model pretending to be a customer and ordering at the
counter by saying, "Can I have one scoop of chocolate and two scoops of vanilla?" Allow students to play
freely with the shapes as they order and build ice cream cones for each other.

Independent working time (10 minutes)

Give your students the Ice Cream Color by Number worksheet.

Explain that they will be solving the addition sentences and writing the answer on the line.
Model how to use the ice cream scoops (circles) to solve the problems. For example, you would solve 1 +
2 = ____ by laying out one scoop and then adding two more.
Tell your students that they will be coloring the picture after solving the math problems.

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Beginning

Project the worksheet on the document camera, and shade each color word at the bottom of the
worksheet as you review color names.
Provide students with five additional circles so they can model sums to ten.
Work in a teacher-led small group to complete the worksheet.

Intermediate

Tell students to follow along on their worksheets as you model solving a problem. Read the problem,
"Two plus one." Count three of your circles. Write the number, 3. Check the color code at the bottom of
the worksheet, and say, "My answer is three, so I need to color this part red." Color, and repeat the
process with a second problem.
Ask students to describe the steps to solve the problems using ice cream scoops.

Related books and/or media

VIDEO: Ice Cream Addition Song

GAME: Addition Matching

Differentiation

Support:

Give your students a color chart to determine the color words. Give your students an addition chart to
self-check their work.

Enrichment:

Ask your students to write out different ways to make 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Encourage these students to use
simple drawings to illustrate their math sentences.

Assessment (5 minutes)

Observe the students as they work. Look for students who are following directions, remaining on task,
answering the addition problems correctly, and coloring the picture in the corresponding colors given on
the chart.
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Beginning

Remind students to use the ice cream scoops to solve the problems. Review number formation by tracing
numbers in the air as a class.
Allow students to work in partners to solve the problems. Partner students who speak the same home
language (L1) if possible.

Intermediate

Ask students to explain their thinking and justify their answers. Tell them to explain how they know their
answer is correct.
Encourage the self-correction of errors rather than rushing to provide the correct answer.

Review and closing (5 minutes)

Ask the students to hold up their ice cream pictures so that everyone can share and compare.
Call on students to give the correct answers and colors for the picture.
Play the addition song one more time. Encourage your students to dance and sing along with the song!

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Beginning

Instruct students to repeat the number sentences chorally as you correct each one.
Tell students to give you a thumbs up if they solved the problem correctly.

Intermediate

Tell students to show the numbers from the song on their fingers as they dance and sing along.

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 2 + 3 =___
2 + 2 =___
3 + 2 =___
2 + 1 =___
1 + 1 =___
4 + 1 =___
5 = Brown
4 = Yellow
3 = Purple
2 = Green