Penny's Bead String: Break Apart 10

Penny the penguin's bead string makes 10 easy to see. Kindergarteners guess a pile of dots, see them as 5 and 5, build 10 on a 10-frame with 5 red and 5 yellow counters, then fill in the missing part of equations for 10 from bead pictures, with the total first or last. Every direction is read aloud, and each wrong answer gets a spoken hint and another try.

• 14 scenes with every direction read aloud: a dot estimate, a 10-frame build and 8 bead-string questions

• See 10 dots as 5 and 5, and make 10 with 5 red and 5 yellow counters
• Fill in the missing part of an equation for 10 from a bead picture, with the total first or last