Number Rhymes: Tens and Teens

This entertaining collection of rhymes explores counting backwards, counting in twos, and counting numbers beyond 10. From 'Five Little Monkeys' and 'Ten in a Bed' to 'One, two, buckle my shoe' and 'One hundred bees round a hive', these rhymes provide a rich range of enjoyable opportunities to familiarise children with ways of manipulating numbers.
An introduction, 'Cracking the Code', discusses ways of learning to count and use numbers beyond 10 - tens and teens - thus providing a useful help for adults.
Collected by a highly reputable early years educationalist with the clear aim of developing early number skills, these rhymes are vividly illustrated by an exciting new talent in children's picture books. This is a book that no foundation stage class should be with out.

Crack the codes
Five little monkeys
In the Caribbean
In bed
In the country
In the kitchen
Watch out for the tiger
One, two, buckle my shoe
20 green bottles
100 bees round a hive
One and one are two

Crack the codes

Listen carefully to the sounds of the numbers bigger than 12. They are made up in a sort of code. You can easily crack the code, if you remember these clues:

* Teen means 10
* Thir means 3 so thirteen means 3 and 10
* Fourteen is easy if you remember the code for teen.
* Fif means 5 so fifteen is 5 and 10

Can you work out what numbers make sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen? It is quite easy if you listen to what the words say and remember the code. You can check the code on pages 22 to 23.

What about twenty? You can crack that code if you remember this clue:

* Ty means lots of 10
* Twen is 2 so twenty means 2 lots of 10
* Thir is 3 so thirty is 3 lots of 10
* For is 4 so forty is 4 lots of 10

Fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety are easy if you listen to what the words say. You can check the code on pages 24 to 26.

Numbers are fun! Enjoy the rhymes.