I created this counting activity as part of our Noah's Ark theme that we have been working on for the past week, but it could be used to accommodate any counting activity. In the story of Noah's Ark, we are told that it rained for 40 days and for 40 nights. I was looking for a way to represent days and nights to Wugs and decided to do this by using a clock. He has developed an interest in clocks and reading the time at the moment. I was hoping to build on this interest by teaching him that the small hand on the clock must go round twice to represent a day and a night. Once it has been turned twice, he could add a small piece of straw to the pipecleaner until he had 4 sets of 10 to represent 40 days and 40 nights. To help him out, I used 4 different colours for each set of 10 so that if he got lost in his counting, he could tell how many more he needed to add of any one colour by checking the pieces of straw of that same colour that were left in the dish.
What we used:
Paper plate
Yellow and red foam (for the clock hands and the numbers)
Black marker Pen
Metal peg (that spreads out at the back - I have no idea of the official name!)
Glue
Pipe cleaners
4 Straws
Scissors
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