Numbers 0 to 10 Game

Numbers make the cookies in the Numbers 0 to 10 Game, a toy cookie factory adventure for kindergarten kids. Abby runs the factory. First she starts the cookie mixers in the Mixing Room, then she bakes the cookies in the Oven Room, then she meets grumpy Bomzy, who says plain cookies are the best. Children tap a machine, Abby glides over, she says what to do, and a card asks them to find a number or count the cookies. Every right answer does the job: an egg drops into the mixer and it spins and mixes the dough, and the oven door opens on a tray with exactly the cookies the child counted. Kids can tap the mixers and ovens again to watch them mix and bake. Playing the numbers 0 to 10 game again and again helps little learners read every number from 0 to 10, tell look-alike numbers like 6 and 9 apart, count a set of cookies, and count out the right number of chips.

In this counting 0 to 10 game, Abby cheers kids on through three parts of the factory. In the Mixing Room they find the numbers 6, 0, 2 and 7, with a shape tip after each one, like “Six has a round tummy at the bottom.” In the Oven Room they find the tray with 4, 8, 3 or 10 cookies. Every tray is a ten frame, two rows of five, so kids can count each cookie or see “five and three more make eight.” The wrong trays have one more or one less cookie, just like the counting mix-ups kids really make. Then comes the Taste Test: kids tap a bowl to throw chocolate chips onto Bomzy’s plain cookie while Abby counts each one out loud, then tap Done. One chip, five chips, nine chips, and the number a child missed earlier comes back for one more try. Bomzy tastes every cookie, and by the end he admits he likes it better with chocolate chips. A wrong answer just gets a kind hint from Abby, and Bomzy’s Yum-o-meter fills with a cookie every time he likes one. She reads every direction out loud and names each answer. Play it in your browser on a phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.

Why this numbers 0 to 10 game works: it is built on things kindergarten teachers do every day. Every number from 0 to 10 is asked at least once. Each number is matched to its name and its shape, and the shape tips help with the numbers kids flip or mix up. Every set of cookies sits in a ten frame, so kids practice counting each cookie one time and learn that the last number they say tells how many. In the Taste Test kids count OUT a set, one chip at a time, which is a different and important counting skill. Quick choices, kind hints, a silly Bomzy, streak celebrations and the stars at the end keep kids smiling and asking to play again.

Teachers and parents can keep the counting going after the game. Count real snacks onto an egg carton cut down to ten cups, and talk about how many spots are empty. Ask your child to give you exactly five crackers. Hunt for numbers on clocks, doors and signs, and trace 6 and 9 in the air to feel the difference.

What’s Included

• Online game that plays in any browser on desktop, tablet and phone
• Included with every Have Fun Teaching membership
• 3 rounds: Mixing Room (find the number), Oven Room (count the cookies on ten frames), then the Taste Test (count out chocolate chips for Bomzy)
• 12 questions covering every number from 0 to 10, with voice directions, kind hints and up to 5 stars
• Assign it to students in HFT Classroom

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