A Frog's Life

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Grade 2
5 skill lessons

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Skill lessons

The mathematics the book carries, taught directly. Printable workbook pages and teacher keys are not available for this book yet.

1Mark the Weeks the Book Names
2Hop the Gap and Say the Number
3The Question the Book Did Not Ask
4Numbered, or Only in Order
5The Unit Word Decides the Line

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Skill lessons

5 lessons on the mathematics the book carries. Printable workbook pages and teacher keys are not available for this book yet.

1. Mark the Weeks the Book Names Representation · Placing the weeks a book names on a number line

This book says outright what it is doing: timelines are number lines that show the passing of time. It then hangs six numbers on one and asks four questions that can only be answered by reading marks off a line. Three of those numbers are in weeks, and those three are what students mark here. They number a strip from zero to sixteen, tape a band across eight, nine and ten where the book gives two numbers instead of one, drop a counter on twelve and another on sixteen, and run an arrow off the end for the four years that will not fit. The thing to come away with is that the number inside a sentence decides where its mark goes, and that a sentence carrying two numbers earns a band rather than a dot.

Full lesson — 20 minutes

1. Number the strip and say what zero means (5 min)
Take the strip with its seventeen ticks already ruled on it and write a number under every tick, starting at zero on the left and finishing at sixteen on the right. Put a finger on the zero and say what that mark is: the day the eggs are laid, where the book says a grass frog's life begins. Read the two sentences on the quote card aloud and say, in the book's own words, what your strip has just become.
Word preview: timeline
Timelines are number lines that show the passing of time.
By looking at the timeline, we see that grass frogs begin life as tiny eggs.
2. Put a band where the book gives two numbers (6 min)
Read the back-legs card first. It gives two numbers and not one, so the back legs do not get a dot. Tear a piece of tape long enough to run from the eight to the ten and press it down over eight, nine and ten. Now read the front-legs card and the adult-frog card, which each give one number, and set a counter on twelve and a counter on sixteen. Say every mark out loud as you make it: eight to ten, back legs; twelve, front legs; sixteen, adult frog.
Word preview: weeks, about
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.
3. Run an arrow off the end for the years (5 min)
Read the last card. It gives four years, and four years will not fit on a strip that stops at sixteen weeks. Lay the paper arrow so its tail starts on the sixteen mark and its point runs off the end of the strip, and write four more years along it. Say where your arrow starts and why it starts there and not at zero. The word in the sentence is more, so the four years come after the sixteen weeks and not instead of them.
Word preview: more
It will be four more years before the frogs are finished growing up and are ready to have babies of their own.
However, they are still not fully grown.
4. Read the whole line back (4 min)
Run a finger along the strip from zero to the arrow and say every mark you pass, in order, with its number and what happens there. Three marks and one arrow. Then say the one thing a reader can tell from your strip that is written on none of the cards on their own: which of the four comes first and which comes last.
Word preview: order
Timelines show things in the order that they happened.

Short version — 9 minutes

1. Number the strip and say what zero means (4 min)
Write a number under every tick on the strip, zero at the left and sixteen at the right. Put a finger on the zero and say what happens there: the eggs are laid and the frog's life begins.
Word preview: timeline
Timelines are number lines that show the passing of time.
2. Put a band where the book gives two numbers (5 min)
Tape across eight, nine and ten for the back legs, because the book gives two numbers there and not one. Set a counter on twelve for the front legs and a counter on sixteen for the adult frog. Say each number out loud as its mark goes down.
Word preview: weeks
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.

Three levels

Support: Take the strip with its numbers already written on and go straight to the marking. Read one card, make its mark, and only then turn the next card over: tape across eight, nine and ten, a counter on twelve, a counter on sixteen. Say the number out loud as each mark goes down.
At Grade: Number the strip from zero to sixteen, make all three marks with the tape and the two counters, run the arrow off the end for the four years, and read the whole line back in order with a number said for every mark.
Extension: Say what your strip would look like if the book had printed in 8 weeks instead of in 8 to 10 weeks. The tape comes off and one counter goes down on the eight, and the space from that counter to the twelve is now one number instead of two. Hop it and say what that number is. Then say why the book's own answer about the back legs has two numbers in it where yours would have one.

English learners

The strip and the marks carry with no English at all, and a child who tapes eight to ten and drops a counter on twelve has done this lesson's mathematics whatever they can say about it. Three small pieces of English are worth rehearsing with the strip in hand, because each one moves a mark. About in front of a number here means near enough, so a counter on sixteen is a reading and not a count that has to come out exact. The two numbers in 8 to 10 weeks name one stretch rather than two separate weeks, which is why the tape covers three ticks instead of two counters going down. And more in four more years adds the years on to the sixteen weeks already marked, where in ordinary English more is nearly always a comparison. Rehearse one frame before any marking: the frog grows ___ at ___ weeks. Invite a child to say what a mark is in their strongest language first and then to give that frame in English.

Materials

A paper strip per pair with seventeen ticks already ruled along it, evenly spaced
A pencil per child
A quote card per pair carrying the book's two sentences about what a timeline is
Three event cards per pair, each carrying one sentence from the book
Masking tape and scissors per pair
Two counters per pair
A paper arrow per pair, cut long enough to hang off the end of the strip
Word cards: timeline, about, weeks, more

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2. Hop the Gap and Say the Number Fluency · Counting on along a number line to find how many weeks lie between two marks

The book asks how long it is between the week a tadpole grows its back legs and the week it grows its front legs, and then prints its own answer: two to four weeks. That answer can be checked, and checking it is the drill. Students clip the two ends, hop a counter one week at a time and say a number word for every hop. From ten to twelve is two hops. From eight to twelve is four. The book's two-numbered answer falls straight out of its two-numbered starting point, so a pair that counts carefully gets both halves of it and can point at where each half came from. The last step turns the counting on the band itself, which is two weeks wide, and finds that the answer is two wide as well.

Full lesson — 20 minutes

1. Hop from ten to twelve (5 min)
Clip one marker on the ten and one on the twelve. Stand the counter on the ten and hop it one tick at a time, saying a number for every hop: eleven, twelve. Two hops. Say the answer out loud as a number of weeks and write two weeks in the first row of the record strip.
Word preview: between
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
2. Move the clip back to eight and hop again (6 min)
The book gives the back legs two numbers, so there are two places a hop can start from. Slide the first clip back to the eight and stand the counter there. Hop to the twelve again, one tick at a time, saying every number as you land: nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Four hops. Write four weeks in the second row, under your two.
Word preview: weeks
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
3. Check the book's answer against yours (5 min)
Turn the answer card over and read what the book says. There is a two and a four on your record strip and there is a two and a four in the book's sentence. Say which of your hops made the two and which made the four, and point at the tick your counter started on for each. Then say why the book gives two numbers here instead of one.
Word preview: between
How long is it between the time when tadpoles first grow their back legs and when they fully grow their front legs?
The timeline tells us that it is two to four weeks.
4. Measure the band itself (4 min)
Now hop inside the back-legs band. Stand the counter on the eight and hop to the ten: nine, ten. Two hops, so the band is two weeks wide. Look at the two and the four on your record strip, then find those two numbers on the week strip and hop from one to the other: three, four. Two hops again. Say what you notice about how wide the band is and how wide the book's answer is.
Word preview: weeks

Short version — 9 minutes

1. Move the clip back to eight and hop again (5 min)
Clip a marker on the eight and one on the twelve, stand the counter on the eight and hop it one tick at a time, saying every number: nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Four hops. Then start again from the ten and hop: eleven, twelve. Two hops. Write both answers down.
Word preview: weeks
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
2. Check the book's answer against yours (4 min)
Read the answer card. Say which of your hops made the two and which made the four, and point at the tick each one started on.
Word preview: between
The timeline tells us that it is two to four weeks.

Three levels

Support: Work one hop only, from ten to twelve, and drop a counter into each tick as you pass it so the hops can be counted again at the end. Say the number out loud for every hop, then count the counters you dropped and say how many weeks.
At Grade: Hop both starts, ten to twelve and eight to twelve, write both answers on the record strip, match them against the book's sentence and say which hop made which, then measure the band and the answer and say what is the same about them.
Extension: Say what the answers would have been if the book had printed in 7 to 10 weeks for the back legs. Hop both ends to the twelve again and say the two numbers you get, then measure the new band and the new answer the way you measured the old ones, and say what stayed true.

English learners

Hopping and counting carry across without English: a child who lands on twelve after four hops has the arithmetic whatever they can say about it. Two pieces of English here are worth having in the mouth before the counter moves. Between in this question means the distance from one mark to another, and it is asking for that distance and not for anything sitting in the middle of it, which is the other job the same word does earlier in the book when it fences the number of eggs in. And the small word to inside 8 to 10 joins two numbers into one stretch, so it does not name two events. Rehearse one frame with the counter in hand: from ___ to ___ is ___ hops, so it is ___ weeks. A child may argue any hop in their strongest language and then give that frame in English, which is what this lesson listens for.

Materials

A week strip per pair numbered 0 to 16
Two marker clips per pair
One counter per pair
A record strip per pair, ruled into four rows
A pencil per child
An answer card per pair carrying the book's question about the legs and its answer
Word cards: between, weeks, about

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3. The Question the Book Did Not Ask Application · Producing a duration a book leaves out by counting on between two marks it prints

Two of the book's questions open with the same seven words, how long is it between the time, and the book answers both. It never asks that question about the stretch from the week the front legs grow to the week the tadpole has finished changing into a frog, and that number is printed nowhere in the text. Both of its ends are, though: about twelve weeks and about sixteen. Students learn the question's shape off the book's own two, ask it about the gap the book left out, hop from twelve to sixteen to answer it, say the answer aloud in a sentence built the way the book builds its answers, and write one more of the same shape for another pair. The book's own last page asks for that and calls it sharing what else the timeline can teach.

Full lesson — 20 minutes

1. Find the shape the two questions share (5 min)
Read the two question cards side by side and highlight the words that are the same on both of them. The same seven words open each one: how long is it between the time. Copy that opening on to the blank strip and leave two spaces after it, one for each thing that happens.
Word preview: between
How long is it between the time the eggs hatch and the time when tadpoles grow gills and tails?
How long is it between the time when tadpoles first grow their back legs and when they fully grow their front legs?
2. Ask it about a gap the book left out (6 min)
Fill your two spaces with two things the book gives a week number for and never asks about together: when the tadpole grows its front legs, and when it has completely changed into an adult frog. Read your new question out loud. Then find the tick numbered twelve and the tick numbered sixteen on the week strip, and hop the counter from one to the other saying a number for every hop: thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen. Four hops.
Word preview: weeks
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.
3. Answer it the way the book answers (5 min)
Read the two answer cards and listen to how the book builds an answer. Now give yours out loud, built the same way, in one sentence that names both things that happen and carries one number. Your partner listens for three parts and says which one is missing if any of them is: the first thing, the second thing, and the number of weeks.
Word preview: about
The timeline tells us that it is about two days.
The timeline tells us that it is two to four weeks.
4. Write one for another pair (4 min)
Pick any two of the weeks the book gives, which are the eight-to-ten band, the twelve and the sixteen, and write one more question in the same shape. Trade with another pair, hop their gap and say the answer out loud with the number in it. If a question uses the back-legs band it will come back with two answers instead of one, and that is allowed, because the book does the same thing.
Word preview: timeline
What other things can you learn by using this timeline?
Share them with a friend.

Short version — 9 minutes

1. Ask it about a gap the book left out (5 min)
The book never asks how long it is between the front legs growing and the tadpole becoming an adult frog, but it prints both weeks. Find the twelve and the sixteen on the week strip and hop the counter from one to the other, saying a number for every hop: thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen. Four hops.
Word preview: weeks
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.
2. Answer it the way the book answers (4 min)
Say your answer out loud in one sentence that names both things that happen and carries your number. Your partner listens for all three parts and says which one is missing if any of them is.
Word preview: about
The timeline tells us that it is two to four weeks.

Three levels

Support: The shape comes to you already written with both things filled in, so the only piece missing is the number. Stand the counter on the twelve, hop to the sixteen with a number said for every hop, and then say the whole sentence with your number in the gap.
At Grade: Find the shared opening in the two questions, build a new question from two marks the book never puts together, hop it, say the answer in a full sentence with both things and the number in it, and write one more question for another pair to hop.
Extension: Ask the same question about the back-legs band and the adult frog, and hop it from both ends of the band: from the ten it comes to six weeks and from the eight it comes to eight. Say why this one has to be answered with two numbers when the front-legs question needed only one, and name the sentence in the book that made that happen.

English learners

The hopping needs no English and neither does the trade at the end: a pair can hand over a question and take back a number. The English worth rehearsing is the answer sentence, because the book has a shape for it and the shape is what this lesson collects. Between here means the distance from one mark to another, so the answer is a length of time and not a thing found in the middle. About in front of the number means near enough, so an answer of about four weeks is right and does not need defending to the day. Rehearse the frame with the strip in front of you: it is about ___ weeks between ___ and ___. Invite a child to talk the hop through in their strongest language and then give the frame in English.

Materials

Two question cards per pair, each carrying one of the book's questions
A blank sentence strip per pair
A highlighter per pair
A pencil per child
A week strip per pair numbered 0 to 16
One counter per pair
Two answer cards per pair, each carrying one of the book's answers
Word cards: between, about, timeline

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4. Numbered, or Only in Order Concept · Telling apart the events a text gives a number and the events it only places in order

Seven things happen to a grass frog in this book and only four of them come with a number. The eggs hatch in about five days, the back legs arrive at eight to ten weeks, the front legs at about twelve, and the change into a frog is complete at about sixteen. The other three arrive with no number at all, and the book pins each of them down with words instead: soon after the back legs, until the lungs come, and in the sentence straight after the twelve. Students sort the seven on that test alone, work out where the three unnumbered ones can go, and find that one of them collects a number later on when the book answers a question about it. What they come away with is the difference between knowing where something goes on a line and knowing when it happened.

Full lesson — 20 minutes

1. Sort the seven cards on to two trays (6 min)
Read the seven event cards one at a time and hunt each one for a number. If the sentence has a number in it the card goes on the tray headed the book says when. If it has none the card goes on the tray headed the book only says what it comes after. Say the number out loud as every numbered card goes down, and say both of them if a card has two. You should finish with four cards on one tray and three on the other.
Word preview: about
The eggs hatch or open up in about five days.
Soon the tadpoles grow gills and tails.
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
Soon, after tadpoles grow back legs, they grow lungs.
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Their tails begin to disappear.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.
2. Slot the three unnumbered cards in (5 min)
Lay the four numbered cards out left to right in the order the book tells them. Three of those four are in weeks and could be put in order by their numbers alone; the first is in days, and the only thing that puts it at the front is that the book tells it first. Now push each of the three unnumbered cards into the gap where the book's words put it: the gills and the tail after the eggs hatch, the lungs after the back legs, the tails beginning to go beside the front legs. For each one say the words that told you, because there is no number to tell you.
Word preview: after
Timelines show things in the order that they happened.
Until the tadpoles grow lungs, they use their gills for breathing in the water like fish do.
3. One card collects a number (5 min)
Turn the question card over. The book asks how long it is between the eggs hatching and the tadpoles growing gills and tails, and it answers about two days. So that card can move: take it off the no-number tray, put it with the numbered ones and write about two days after the hatch along the bottom of it. Count what is left on the no-number tray. Two cards.
Word preview: between
How long is it between the time the eggs hatch and the time when tadpoles grow gills and tails?
The timeline tells us that it is about two days.
4. Say what holds the last two in place (4 min)
Two cards are still sitting on the no-number tray. Take the lungs card and read out the two sentences the book uses to hold it where it is, then say what each of them would stop being true if that card moved in front of the back legs. Take the last card and say what the book would have had to print for it to move trays too.
Word preview: until
Soon, after tadpoles grow back legs, they grow lungs.
Until the tadpoles grow lungs, they use their gills for breathing in the water like fish do.

Short version — 9 minutes

1. Sort the seven cards on to two trays (5 min)
Hunt each of the seven cards for a number. A card with a number goes on the tray headed the book says when; a card with none goes on the tray headed the book only says what it comes after. Four cards will end on one tray and three on the other.
Word preview: about
The eggs hatch or open up in about five days.
Soon the tadpoles grow gills and tails.
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
Soon, after tadpoles grow back legs, they grow lungs.
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Their tails begin to disappear.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.
2. One card collects a number (4 min)
Read the question card. The book asks about the gap between the eggs hatching and the gills arriving, and answers about two days, so that card can move to the numbered tray. Count what is left on the other tray. Two cards.
Word preview: between
How long is it between the time the eggs hatch and the time when tadpoles grow gills and tails?
The timeline tells us that it is about two days.

Three levels

Support: Sort four cards instead of seven, with one already down on each tray as an example: the eggs hatching on the tray that has a number and the lungs on the tray that does not. Read each of the other two out loud and answer one question before it goes down, which is whether there is a number in that sentence.
At Grade: Sort all seven, lay the numbered ones out in the book's order, slot the three unnumbered ones into the gaps their words put them in, move the card that collects a number, and say what holds the last two where they are.
Extension: Count how many of the seven have a number once the question card has been read, and how many still have none. Five and two. Then say what a reader can still be sure of about an event with no number and what they cannot: use the lungs card for the first, because two sentences fix where it goes, and the tails card for the second, because the sentence beside it hands its number to the front legs and not to the tails.

English learners

The sort itself runs on one question a child can hold in any language, which is whether there is a number in the sentence, and the cards can be checked by eye. Three English words do the real work here and each one is a small trap. After in soon after tadpoles grow back legs puts the lungs later in time, not behind the tadpole in space. Until in until the tadpoles grow lungs marks the end of a stretch, so the gill-breathing stops at that moment rather than starting there, and a child who reads it the other way will slot the card in the wrong gap. And begin in their tails begin to disappear says the going has started and not finished, which is why that card gets no number. Rehearse one frame with the cards on the tray: this one comes after ___, and the book does not say when. A child may reason it out in their strongest language and then give the frame in English.

Materials

Seven event cards per pair, each carrying one sentence from the book
Two trays or sheets per pair, one headed the book says when and one headed the book only says what it comes after
A quote card per pair carrying the book's second sentence about the lungs, the one beginning until
A question card per pair carrying the book's question about the eggs hatching and its answer
Word cards: after, until, about

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5. The Unit Word Decides the Line Reasoning · Deciding from a unit word which of a book's numbers can share one number line

This book puts six numbers on its timeline and measures them in three different units. The first week of a grass frog's life is counted in days, about five to the hatch and about two more to the gills and the tail. Everything after that is counted in weeks, and the last stretch is counted in years. The book joins none of them: no sentence says how many days make a week or how many weeks make a year, and it never needs one, because every question it asks stays inside a single unit. Students sort the six numbers by the unit word beside each one, build the day line and hop it to seven, and then discover for themselves that the day marks cannot be moved on to the week line, because the one fact that would move them is not in the book.

Full lesson — 20 minutes

1. Highlight the unit word on every card (5 min)
Six cards. Every one of them carries a number and a word saying what that number counts. Highlight the counting word on each card, which is days or weeks or years, and watch out for two things: on one card another word sneaks in between the number and the unit, so read on until you reach the word that names a length of time, and on one card there are two numbers and still only one unit. Then push the cards into three piles by the highlighted word alone, and before you go on say how many are in each pile: two in one, three in another, and one on its own.
Word preview: days, weeks, years
The eggs hatch or open up in about five days.
The timeline tells us that it is about two days.
In 8 to 10 weeks, tadpoles grow back legs.
When they are about 12 weeks old, tadpoles grow front legs.
Grass frog tadpoles take about 16 weeks to completely change into adult frogs that can live on land.
It will be four more years before the frogs are finished growing up and are ready to have babies of their own.
2. Build the day line and hop it (6 min)
Number the short strip from zero to ten, one day to a tick. Mark the zero for the day the eggs are laid and the five for the day they hatch. Now take the other card from the day pile, the one saying about two days, which is the book's own answer for the gap between the hatch and the gills. Hop the counter that many days on from the five, saying a number for every hop: six, seven. Mark the seven and say what happens there, which is the day the tadpole has gills and a tail.
Word preview: days
The eggs hatch or open up in about five days.
Soon the tadpoles grow gills and tails.
3. Try to move a day mark on to the week line (5 min)
Lay the week strip beside the day strip and try to move the mark at five days across on to it. To place it you need the sentence that says how many days make a week, so hunt for that sentence in the book. Say out loud what you found. If you already know the number from somewhere else, say so, and then say where in this book it is written.
Word preview: weeks
Timelines are number lines that show the passing of time.
4. Say why the years card fits on neither (4 min)
Hold the years card over each strip in turn. Ten days will not hold four years and sixteen weeks will not hold them either. Say the one thing you would need the book to tell you before four years could be marked on the week strip. Then find the word on the years card that tells you where the four years start even though you cannot mark them, and say the number they start at.
Word preview: more
It will be four more years before the frogs are finished growing up and are ready to have babies of their own.

Short version — 9 minutes

1. Build the day line and hop it (5 min)
Number the short strip from zero to ten, one day to a tick. Mark the zero for the day the eggs are laid and the five for the day they hatch. Then hop the counter two days on from the five, saying a number for each hop: six, seven. Mark the seven for the day the tadpole has gills and a tail.
Word preview: days
The eggs hatch or open up in about five days.
The timeline tells us that it is about two days.
2. Try to move a day mark on to the week line (4 min)
Lay the week strip beside the day strip and try to move the five-day mark across. Hunt the book for a sentence saying how many days make a week, and say out loud what you found.
Word preview: weeks
Timelines are number lines that show the passing of time.

Three levels

Support: Work the day line only, and take it with its numbers from zero to ten already written on. Stand a counter on the five for the hatch, hop two more with a number said for each hop, and mark where you land. Say the unit word out loud before every mark goes down.
At Grade: Sort all six cards by their unit word and say how many are in each pile, build the day line and hop it to seven, try the five-day mark against the week strip and say what the book does not tell you, and say where the four years would have to start.
Extension: Take the book's first three questions and say which of your two strips each answer would be measured on. Two of them land on a strip, one answered in days and one in weeks. The one about the eggs lands on neither, because it asks how many and not how long, and a count of eggs has no place on a line of time. Then say which of your three piles that question's numbers would have gone into in the first step, and find there is no pile for them.

English learners

Sorting by the highlighted word is work a child can do before they can read the rest of the sentence, and the two strips make the point without a word being said. The English here is three nouns and one small word, and they decide everything. Day, week and year are the units, and a child whose first language marks them differently, or who is used to hearing a week called by its days, still has to take the word off this page and not from memory. About in front of a number tells them the mark is a reading rather than an exact count. Rehearse one frame with a card in hand: this number is in ___, so it goes on the ___ line. The invitation at the last step matters most: a child who already knows how many days make a week should say so in whichever language it comes to them in, and then be asked to find where this book says it, which it does not.

Materials

Six number cards per pair, each carrying one sentence from the book
A highlighter per pair
Three sorting mats per pair, headed days, weeks and years
A short paper strip per pair with eleven ticks already ruled along it
One counter per pair
A pencil per child
The week strip numbered 0 to 16 from an earlier lesson, or a fresh one
Word cards: days, weeks, years

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