Fish and Chips Eat Sweets

Objective & content

A two-page printable that goes with the Fish and Chips episode Eat Sweets: ten numbered sweets, laid out in the same two rows of five that Chips counts at the end of the episode. Pupils write the number word for each sweet, then colour the picture, with the teacher key on page two. By the end, pupils can write the numbers one to ten as words, matching the digit to the word rather than meeting ten separate new words.

Pedagogical guide

The sheet IS the episode's own test, not a new exercise: the same two rows, the same sequence, so pupils retrieve what Chips just counted rather than starting a fresh task. At this level they already know the quantities; what the sheet checks is the written word for each one. Watch for four, which keeps its "u" where forty drops it, and for eight and nine, the two numbers pupils misspell most often here.

Suggested procedure

1. (3 min) Play the episode's test again: point at a sweet and ask "Let's count!"; the class counts along the row out loud like Chips.
2. (10 min) Hand out page 1. Pupils write the number word on the line under each sweet, top row first.
3. (5 min) Correct from page 2, sweet by sweet, saying each number aloud before writing it.
4. (10 min) Colouring. While they colour, point at a sweet at random and ask for its number.

Adaptations

[S] Count and write only the top row, one to five; do six to ten together as a class, out loud.

[A] Fold the word list away: pupils write all ten from memory, check with a partner, then colour each sweet a different colour and say the number as they pick it up.

Materials & prerequisites

Page 1 printed for every pupil, plus coloured pencils. Keep page 2, the teacher key. Pupils should already be able to count to ten out loud before this sheet asks them to write it. Black and white printing is enough and is what the sheet is designed for.