Earlier today, while all of us are so lazy to start our day, we read Chicken Licken while having breakfast. Mavi started to memorize the order of the farm animals in the story and I decided to integrate ordinal numbers into it.
Our Chicken Licken was from Usborne and got it via Book Depository. The animals used is from Safari Toob Mega Farm Collection and Safari Toob Feathered Dinosaurs. [aff. links]
I made Mavi read the book and instructed to place the animals in the order of how they appeared in the story. So basically, if your child knows how to read and at this time, familiar with ordinal numbers he can work on this independently with minimal supervision. But for preschoolers, the mother/teacher should demonstrate the concept of ordinal numbers by placing the animals according to the sequence of their appearance in the story.
PS. We didn’t have a turkey figure so we didn’t include it in our activity.
Other books that can be used in teaching ordinal numbers [aff. links]:
Another way to demonstrate ordinal numbers is by using similar objects (in our case dinosaurs), labels and instructions.
Mavi reads the instructions and happily obliged. My instructions were simple… like “place a yellow rubber-band on the 4th (fourth) dinosaur”.
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