One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab

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 more animals but we can only use the snails.”

-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