ten

The bigger the number, the greater the trouble

Except when the little one you can double.

If you pair two fives, you can count again,

Before you know it you've built up ten.

based on Number Qualities Verse, Enki Education 1st Grade Academic Activity

We finally finished up working with "10" this morning after a busy weekend where we couldn't find time for school work. We were still working with The Evil Giant doubling story that we read last week and used to work on "6" (two "3"s) and "8" (two "4"s). The kids had no problem identifying the "10" in the story, despite the fact that it's been a week since they've heard it. They readily pointed out that there were five girls who married five boys to make ten. (Or looking at it another way, five children of the fisherman who married to make ten.) Then we quickly found the significant 10s in our life -- ten fingers and ten toes.


Here's my drawing -- I drew the girls holding hands in a circle, with the boys around the outside of them (which matches up really well with our geometric figure for this number). I also threw in my hands, for good measure.



J decided to draw his hands/fingers, then turned them into a turkey and a peacock.

Zoo Boy decided to draw his feet/toes, but chose to be lazy about it and only draw one, then just indicate that there are two sets of them by drawing an arrow. Not much of an artistic process here....

Zoo Boy's number, dots, and geometric figure (J's is pictured up above). I drew numbers around a circle to help both of them with the figure, which is a 10-pointed star (made by overlapping two 5-pointed stars).