The purpose of this activity is for students to be introduced to a new story. Students make sense of and orally explain what the story is about.

• “We will come back to this story tomorrow and think about what happens in the story and how we can act it out.”

The purpose of this activity is for students to determine if there are enough pencils and erasers for each student in their group to get one. Students can do this in any way that makes sense to them. The Activity Synthesis will focus on determining if there are enough by giving one object to each student in the group.

• Invite previously identified students to share. 
• “How did you find out if there were enough erasers?” (We tried to pass out 1 eraser to each person, but not everyone got one.)

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that focus on using math tools and recognizing quantities without counting. 

Students choose from any of the previously introduced stages of these centers:

• Connecting Cubes
• Pattern Blocks
• Geoblocks
• Picture Books

• Invite previously selected students to share their work.
• “Tell your partner about _____’s work.”
• Invite students to share what their partner said about the student work.