Description

What our Skip Counting lesson plan includes

Lesson Objectives and Overview: Skip Counting demonstrates how to skip count to 100, by twos, threes, fours, and fives. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to skip count to 100, by twos, threes, fours, and fives. The students will be able to identify the missing numbers during skip counting. This lesson is for students in 1st grade and 2nd grade.

Classroom Procedure

Every lesson plan provides you with a classroom procedure page that outlines a step-by-step guide to follow. You do not have to follow the guide exactly. The guide helps you organize the lesson and details when to hand out worksheets. It also lists information in the blue box that you might find useful. You will find the lesson objectives, state standards, and number of class sessions the lesson should take to complete in this area. In addition, it describes the supplies you will need as well as what and how you need to prepare beforehand.

Options for Lesson

Included with this lesson is an “Options for Lesson” section that lists a number of suggestions for activities to add to the lesson or substitutions for the ones already in the lesson. If you’d like to teach this lesson over more than two days, you can focus on a different number to skip count each day; for example, you could skip count 2s on Monday, 3s on Tuesday, etc., and review on Friday. To make the lesson flash cards sturdier, you could use heavier stock paper/cardboard. An optional addition to this lesson is to use the videos linked in the additional resources for introducing the topic and for review. You could also have your students play interactive practice and game resources to enhance learning opportunities.

Teacher Notes

The teacher notes page includes a paragraph with additional guidelines and things to think about as you begin to plan your lesson. This page also includes lines that you can use to add your own notes as you’re preparing for this lesson.

SKIP COUNTING LESSON PLAN CONTENT PAGES

Skip Counting 2, 3, 4, 5

The Skip Counting lesson plan includes two content pages. The lesson begins with helpful tables that show the numbers that you get when skip counting by 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s. Students can read these tables to familiarize themselves with the skip counting patterns.

What is Skip Counting?

Counting by ones (1, 2, 3, 4…) is regular counting. Counting by skipping numbers is skip counting. You can skip count by 2s, 3s, 4s, or 5s. When skip counting, you leave out the other numbers and don’t say them.

When you count by 10s (10, 20, 30, 40, 50…), you’re skip counting by 10! When skip counting by 10s, you are simply adding 10 to the previous number.

Similarly, when skip counting by 2s, you add 2 to each number. Let’s look at this as an example: 2 + 2 = 4 + 2 = 6 + 2 = 8 + 2 = 10. Skip counting by 2 gives you the following set of numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on.

You use the same method (adding the same number each time) to skip count by 3s, 4s, and 5s. For 3s, the first few numbers in the set are 3, 6, 9, 12, and 5. For 4s, the first numbers in the set are 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20. Finally, for 5s, the first few numbers in the set are 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25.

Skip counting helps you count faster, but it takes practice! Students can practice each day until they become comfortable skip counting by different numbers.

SKIP COUNTING LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS

The Skip Counting lesson plan includes two worksheets: a practice worksheet and a homework assignment. You can refer to the guide on the classroom procedure page to determine when to hand out each worksheet.

SKIP COUNTING BY 2, 3, 4, AND 5 PRACTICE WORKSHEET

The practice worksheet asks students to skip count by 2, 3, 4, and 5, circling the numbers used for each.

FIND THE MISSING NUMBERS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

For the homework assignment, students will fill in the missing numbers in each of the given sets by skip counting.

Worksheet Answer Keys

This lesson plan includes answer keys for the practice worksheet and the homework assignment. If you choose to administer the lesson pages to your students via PDF, you will need to save a new file that omits these pages. Otherwise, you can simply print out the applicable pages and keep these as reference for yourself when grading assignments.