The Grade 1’s have been exploring multiple activities using the animal
characters from the book “One Is a Snail, Ten
Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book” by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre.
We have done so many fantastic activities with this book! We started out on
this journey by reading the book and talking about how the animals can
represent different numbers. We then worked, as a whole class, to see how many
different ways there are to make the number ten using the animal feet from the
book. We made ten in a lot of different ways! Then students got to work
creating their own books. Students chose their number, and then using the
characters from the book, they represented their number in as many different
ways they could. Students chose a number less than 10, then a number more than
10 to make a booklet. We also played many games and did some problem-solving
questions using the animals. There are so many ways to use this fabulous math
book! Both the students and Ms. Hutchings learned a lot about numbers
throughout this unit!
We try to race to 100. We have to roll a dice and whatever it
lands on you have to do the number and then you just give it to another person
and they have to roll it too.”
– Grade 1 Student
“I count to 10 by using these animals.”
-Grade 1 Student
If it were an even number we would be able to use
-Grade 1 Student
“So basically you have to count. It’s basically like money. You
have to make ten to have ten by itself (points to a crab). The easier way is to
have a spider and then just 2 feet.”
-Grade 1 Student
