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Hi, my name's Mr. Peters.

I'm really looking forward to our learning today.

Our lesson is called representing counting songs, and it builds on our previous learning of counting two and counting back from 10.

In this lesson today, we're gonna be thinking about how we can represent counting songs, either using pictures or physical objects, physical items, which we sometimes call manipulatives.

So by the end of this lesson today, you should be able to say that I can use either manipulatives or pictures to represent how many in counting songs.

Now, one of our keywords that we're gonna be thinking about today is this word here, represent.

It can mean a number of things, but today we're gonna use it in a way where we can use smaller items to pretend to be an actual item.

For example, I could use this LEGO figure to represent a person, or I could use a cuddly toy to represent a character from a story.

Watch out for how we use this word throughout our lesson.

So let's get started.

The first part of our lesson is to represent songs counting forwards just to 10.

In this lesson, you'll be meeting Aisha and Jun as well, and they'll be helping us along our way with our learning.

Here's our first song.

It's called "10 Little Raindrops." You may already know it.

I wonder if you could sing along with me.

♪ One little, two little, three little raindrops ♪ ♪ Four little, five, little, six little raindrops ♪ ♪ Seven little, eight, little, nine little raindrops ♪ ♪ 10 little raindrops falling down ♪ ♪ Falling, falling, falling raindrops ♪ ♪ Falling, falling, falling raindrops ♪ ♪ Falling, falling, falling raindrops ♪ ♪ Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, splash ♪ Did you like it? Did you manage to spot what we used to represent each raindrop? That's right.

Every time we sung about a raindrop, a drawing of a raindrop fell.

Hmm.

Have you ever tried to catch 10 raindrops? You may have tried to catch them with your hand or potentially on a leaf, for example.

How many do you think you could have a go at catching? I know it's really tricky, so maybe next time it's raining and it's safe to do so, maybe go outside and give it a go.

This time I think we'll sing the song again, but this time, instead of using raindrops to represent each raindrop, I'm gonna use my fingers.

Are you ready? You can join in as well this time with me and use your fingers.

Here we go.

♪ One little, two little, three little raindrops ♪ ♪ Four little, five little, six little raindrops ♪ ♪ Seven little, eight little, nine little raindrops ♪ ♪ 10 little raindrops falling down ♪ ♪ Falling, falling, falling raindrops ♪ ♪ Falling, falling, falling raindrops ♪ ♪ Falling, falling, falling raindrops ♪ ♪ Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, splash.

♪ Well done.

You sung that really well.

Why don't we have one more go at this song and this time, as you can see, each time a raindrop falls, we're gonna represent it with a finger as well on the screen.

Here we go.

Get ready.

You sung that again really, really well.

So, so far, we've used drawings of raindrops and we used our fingers to represent each raindrop.

I wonder, in our classrooms, if there's something that we could use that could also represent the raindrops.

I've got an example for us.

Are you ready? Let's sing the song one more time.

And you can see what I'm using to represent each raindrop.

Did you see what I managed to use to represent each raindrop? That's right.

Each raindrop was represented by one blue block.

I think that's quite a good representation of a raindrop, but I think there might be better ones.

So now it's your turn.

I wonder, can you start thinking about what you could potentially use in your classroom to represent a raindrop? It's time to check our understanding.

So first of all, which picture represents the number of raindrops? That's right.

It's B.

B represents five and on the screen, we can see five raindrops.

Let's count them together again to check.

One, two, three, four, five.

I counted five raindrops on the screen and I can show you five on my fingers as well.

Here's another challenge for you.

Can you match the raindrops to the number of blocks that represent them? Hmm.

Here's the first set of blocks.

Which one of those pictures is represented by these blocks? That's right, it's the first set.

There are four raindrops all together, and there are four blocks.

Let's count them again.

One, two, three, four.

Here's the second set of blocks.

Which picture again is represented by these blocks? That's right, it's the bottom set.

On the bottom set, there are eight raindrops and again, we have eight blocks.

Let's count them again just to double check.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

There are eight raindrops all together and there are also eight blocks.

And now finally, here's the last set.

Hmm.

Can you spot which picture it is? That's right.

It's the picture in the middle.

The picture in the middle has six raindrops.

And on the right-hand side, we have six blocks to represent each one of those raindrops.

Well done.

Now, I think it's time for us to have a go at our first task.

So your first task today is to find something in your setting to represent the raindrops falling throughout the song.

Now, we've already used some cubes, but you might like to find something else in the classroom.

For example, I found some counters here.

Or you could use people to represent each raindrop.

But what I would ask is just to have a little think about what is the most suitable representation to use? Is it better to use blue counters or is it better to use people? What's most representative of the raindrops that we've been singing about? Good luck with the task and I'll see you shortly.

Welcome back.

I wonder how you got on.

Aisha here found some pompoms to use to represent each raindrop.

I wonder if you found something similar to Aisha.

Let's have a look at Aisha's picture here.

On the bottom, you can see one, two, three raindrops.

In the middle, you can see four, five, six raindrops.

And then moving towards the top, you can see seven, eight, nine raindrops.

And finally, the last raindrop, the 10th raindrop about to fall down from the sky.

Well done, Aisha and well done to you.

Hopefully you found something very similar.

Here we're gonna be thinking about counting backwards from 10 rather than counting forwards.

So we're going to represent songs counting backwards from 10.

Here's our next song.

It's called "10 Green Bottles." Again, you may have heard of this one before.

I'm gonna sing it through once.

Join in if you like.

♪ 10 green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ 10 green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be nine green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Nine green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Nine green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be eight green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Eight green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Eight green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be seven green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Seven green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Seven green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be six green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Six green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Six green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be five green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Five green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Five green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be four green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Four green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Four green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be three green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Three green standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Three green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be two green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Two green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Two green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be one green bottle left standing on the wall ♪ ♪ One green bottle standing on a wall ♪ ♪ One green bottle standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be no green bottles standing on the wall.

♪ Did you like that song? Had you heard it before? Well done for joining in.

Now, I think we should sing the song again, but this time we're gonna use our fingers to represent each bottle as well each time.

Hopefully you can join along too.

Here we go ♪ 10 green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ 10 green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be nine green bottles left standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Nine green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Nine green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be eight green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Eight green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Eight green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be seven green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Seven green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Seven green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be six green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Six green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Six green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be five green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Five green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Five green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be four green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Four green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Four green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be three green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Three green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Three green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be two green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Two green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Two green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be one green bottles standing on the wall ♪ ♪ One green bottle standing on a wall ♪ ♪ One green bottle standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be no green bottles standing on the wall ♪ Oh, well done for keeping up and using your fingers and singing the song so well as well.

Now's a good chance to check our understanding.

Jun is asking true or false? There are five green bottles standing on the wall.

Take a moment to have a think for yourself.

That's right, it's false.

But Aisha's now asking, "Well, if that's false, how many green bottles are there?" Have a little think for yourself quickly.

That's right, there are four.

And how did you know? Did you count them like me or did you just see them? Should we count them to check? Here we go.

One, two, three, four.

There are four green bottles standing on the wall and we know that four is one less than five.

So what was the mistake that Jun could have made? Well, by looks of it, Jun needed to add one more bottle onto the wall so that we would have five bottles on the wall rather than four.

Now it's time for our second task.

And this time, I was really hoping we can start using pictures to represent our understanding of the song "10 Green Bottles." What I'm gonna ask you to do this time is to draw a picture yourself to represent this verse from the song.

Why don't I sing this verse for you once more so you're really familiar with what you have to do? ♪ Five green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ Five green bottles standing on a wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'll be four green bottles left standing on the wall ♪ Well, there we go.

Why don't you have a go now at trying to draw a picture of the five green bottles on the wall and showing the one green bottle falling as well? Good luck.

I'll see you shortly.

Great.

Welcome back and well done for doing your drawing.

Jun's done a drawing for us as well.

Should we have a look at his? Jun says, "I drew it like this." Have a look at the wall.

Can you see the five green bottles on the top? And can you see the one green bottle falling? That's right, Jun has drawn five green bottles on the top of the wall and then he's drawn one underneath falling.

And I think that's what's been represented by the line showing the green bottle falling.

Also, you might notice that one of the bottles has a red cross going through it.

That must represent that's the bottle that has fallen from the top of the wall and is going down towards the floor.

Your picture might look something similar to that and it might look slightly different.

And that's okay as long as you can explain the verse in the song in your picture and be able to tell somebody where your five green bottles are all together.

Great work.

We've got to the end of our lesson.

I hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did.

So in this lesson, we've been thinking about representing counting songs.

And if we think back quickly, we started with the song "10 Little Raindrops" and enjoyed singing that song, representing that song with our fingers, as well as some cubes and then also with your own manipulatives or physical objects that you found within your own setting.

We then went on to sing backwards from 10 using the song "10 Green Bottles." And each time a green bottle fell from the wall, a little drawing of the green bottle represented it falling.

So hopefully, by the end of this lesson, you feel confident enough to say that you can represent counting songs and show how many using your fingers.

Hopefully, you feel that you can represent counting songs and show how many using manipulatives or physical objects like we talked about from your setting or wherever you are.

And finally, hopefully you feel that you can represent counting songs and show how many through the use of drawings.

Can you think of any of your own songs that you enjoy that have counting in them? I wonder if you could represent them in your own way.

You could use a picture or again, find another physical object or manipulative nearby that you could use to represent each part of that song.

Thanks for learning with me today.

I've really enjoyed myself.

Take care and I'll see you soon.

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