Show me five fingers! Now put some fingers down. How many fingers are up? How many are down?
The fingers up and the fingers down are the two parts of five.
Bunny ears! Put your hands on your head like bunny ears.
Put up 4 fingers on one ear and 1 on the other. Four and one make five.
Now put up 3 and 2. Say it with me: three and two make five.
Watch our five break into the same two parts on the board.
Take a train of 5 cubes. Snap it into two bits. Lay one bit on each plate. Say your way out loud: how many here, how many there?
Hands-on Task
One of us comes to the board to break five: first 4 and 1, then 3 and 2, then 5 and 0. Everyone else watches and says the sentence out loud with the class before we check.
Make five together
Which way of making five do you like best? Show it on your fingers.
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