:)ġ0 Top Tips for New Teachers (2) 13 in 13 (1) 2D shapes (1) addition (5) adjectives (1) All About Me (64) alphabet (3) apples (1) apps (1) Art (3) Australia (5) Back to School (16) beach (3) beginning sounds (1) behaviour management (4) Birthday (1) birthdays (2) blog hop (1) brain breaks (1) Canada (3) capacity (1) Christmas (17) classroom displays (7) classroom organisation (14) classroom theme (1) Cloud Dough (1) coffee (2) collage (1) counting (12) craft (22) craftivity (6) cupcakes (1) Currently (25) CVC (6) decor (5) digraphs (3) dinosaurs (4) Discovery Play (2) division (1) DIY (16) Dolch (3) Dr. ![]() When both ten frames are full, kidlets get a Chook Champ card! (This is just a picture of a chicken.) The player with the most chickens at the end of the playing time is the Chook Champ! Warning: excitement levels often make this game noisy. You can also have them record their number on a whiteboard after each turn to practice writing those numbers. 'You have ten and four more, what number do you have?' 'Who has the most cubes?' 'How many more do you need to make 10 or 20?' I've found that this is a really engaging way to reinforce that tricky teen number concept. As they play, discuss the number of cubes they have collected. They take turns to roll a die, adding cubes (or whatever) to their cartons. To play Chook Champs each kidlet needs two ten frames each. Cut them down so that you end up with ten frames - these cartons are perfect for working with manipulatives in any number work you do. I call it 'Chook Champs'! ('Chook' is an Aussie slang term for chicken.) All you need is a whole stack of egg cartons. ![]() This next game is kind of similar, except the kidlets work with teen numbers. It’s an illness.You might have read my post earlier in the year all about a DIY game called Pirate Treasure Ten Frames. I’m at about thirty right now, and I can attest to the extra work – be sure you’re ready to take that on for another pretty face! (Having said that, I have dreams of moving to a farm where I can have 100 birds! Sigh. So I am pretty choosy when it comes to acquiring more birds. I have no more space for another coop – when my slots are filled, I’m done, unless time or illness creates more openings in the flock. If you fill your coop up with birds that were more conveniently available, then you won’t have room to get the ones you really want. ![]() My favorite excuse is, ” they’re only bantams – they don’t count!” (And I raise large fowl – do I NEED these little birds? Of course not, but they’re so darn cute!) I always advise people to wait, although it sure is hard to do that sometimes, to get the breeds they really love. Great advice! Although I am more careful than some other flock owners I’ve met, I, too, have succumbed to chicken math.
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