Mrs. Whaley's Kindergarten: Teen Numbers

Tens Frames

We read the book Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert and used one pretzel goldfish and 9 goldfish crackers to learn about the tens frame and how it can help us recognize teen numbers.

Buses and Bears

We use a school bus tens frame and teddy bear manipulatives to learn about the teen numbers.

We find out that teen numbers are ten and some more. We learn that when the bus is filled up that is one ten and if their are bears at the bus stop they are ones.

Tens Frames on the SmartBoard

We use an activity on the smartboard and tens frames with 2 sided counters at our seat to learn more about tens frames and teen numbers. We use red to show the tens and yellow to show the ones.

The Tricky Teen Chant

We use this poem to help us learn about teen numbers. I got the idea for this poem from Mrs. Jones' website. We add this poem to our Poetry Notebook so we can practice the chant at home.

Roll to 20 Dice Game

Partners use a gameboard with two tens frames, one dice, and counters to play this game. Each student takes turns rolling the dice. She adds counters to her gameboard to represent the number rolled on the dice. Play continues until a player fills in both of the tens frames. This first player to fill in both of her tens frames wins.

Teen Number Humpty Dumpty Game

This is a "crash" card game. Below is an example of 3 of the game cards. I created game cards for numbers 11-20 using tens frames and numerals. I also created some cards with Humpty Dumpty. This card game can be played with small or large groups. One player at a time draws a card. If it is a tens frame, the student counts the bricks on Humpty Dumpty's wall to name the number. If it is a numeral card, the student names the number. If a student draws a Humpty Dumpty card, all students chant the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. If this student has collected any game cards, the cards are returned to the deck. (Hold onto the Humpty Dumpty card.) Play resumes until all the cards have been played.