Skip counting to 100

This week we have been refreshing our abilities to count to 100. We read the book 100 things written by Masayuki Sebe. This allowed us to see what 100 things looked like and also understand that it easier to count to 100 by grouping objects together.

Once we read the book, we worked together to group pop sticks into 10's and worked out that we needed 10 groups of 10 to make 100 pop sticks.

In order to assess the students understandings we ventured outside and set off independently to collect and group honkey nuts in 10's to reach 100.

Thomas peer modelled his counting to the rest of the group. He did such a great job I think I will employ him to be my assistant with future numeracy concepts.

Finally we returned to class to show what we had learnt with a concrete activity of skip counting in 10's to 100 and beyond. This activity allowed us to look at written numbers and identify patterns that skip counting can create.