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Week 04 · Hundreds, tens and ones

Thursday

Samantha's acorn stash
// Ten tens make a hundred
⏱ about 15 min

Thursday: Samantha's acorn stash

Chris the Coyote sits on a log and opens his storyteller bag.

"Gather round," he says. "This is the tale of Samantha's acorn stash."

"She hid boxes, bags and loose acorns all over the forest."

Samantha bounces with joy. "That is my story!"

Story: The acorn stash

Samantha hid 2 boxes of one hundred acorns in a hollow tree.

She hid 4 bags of ten acorns under a big fern.

She dropped 3 loose acorns by the pond.

Bennie counted them all. "You have 243 acorns!"

Blocks: 2 hundred flats, 4 ten rods, 3 one cubes
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STORY
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
acornHow many boxes of one hundred did Samantha hide?
fernHow many bags of ten were under the fern?
Blocks: 2 hundred flats, 4 ten rods, 3 one cubesHow many acorns did Samantha have in all?
MORE ACORN STASHES
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
3 boxes, 5 bags and 1 loose acorn. How many acorns?
6 boxes, no bags and 8 loose acorns. How many acorns?
1 box, 7 bags and no loose acorns. How many acorns?
BOXES, BAGS AND LOOSE ONES
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
What digit is in the hundreds place of 243?
In 243, what is the 4 worth?
What digit is in the ones place of 618?
COUNT THE STASH IN ORDER
  • Count the boxes, then the bags, then the loose ones.
  • Tap the totals in order.
1First
2Next
3Last
SentenceTrue or false?
In 243, the 2 means 200.?
In 243, the 4 means 4.?
In 243, the 3 means 3.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEIn 243, the 4 is in the tens place. It means 40.
Try it
Put small toys in groups of ten.
How many tens? How many ones are left over?

Word Spot: story, few, while

Here are new sight words.

Look at each word. Say it. Spell it.

Story: S-T-O-R-Y.

Few: F-E-W.

While: W-H-I-L-E.

FIND THE WORD
  • Listen to the word.
  • Tap it.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
FILL THE GAP
  • Listen to the sentence.
  • Tap the missing word.
The ___ has a happy ending.
A ___ birds sat on the fence.
We sang ___ we walked.

What a stash! Tomorrow Freddy has a place value game.

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