Using a felt board, build a pond for the students using textured wall paper. Build the pond one element at a time discussing the make-up of the pond. Add pond animals naming them and having the students describe the animal characteristics. Students work in groups constructing ponds out of textured wall paper, construction paper, and butcher paper and paint in the splashes. Students place animals in various positions in and around the pond and make up a math problem to be solved by other groups.
Students present their pond scenes to the whole class.
They orally describe their ponds by part and animals. Students add written math sentence strips to their pond scenes. Extending the Lesson Display scenes on outside classroom board for others in the school to view, read, and solve the math problems.