A Day at the Beach: Class 2 Maths · Chapter 1

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Printable worksheet: A Day at the Beach

10 exercises (counting, missing numbers, circling, sums, matching) to print on A4 in black and white, with the answer key on the last page. Do them after the lesson.

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Lesson text (for parents and teachers)

Every scene's words in order, as Tara reads them after Start: for reading along, or for a child who cannot hear the narration.

Kite Day!
It is Kite Day in Ahmedabad!
The sky is full of kites.
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Let us count today!
So many kites
Counting one by one is slow.
Let us make groups of ten!
Tara: Ten in a group. Then count the groups!
Fill the frames
Hetal puts the kites in frames of ten.
Activity: How many kites are there? Tap to count, then pick the number.
Bundles of ten
Abbu ties kite sticks in bundles of ten.
2 bundles and 6 loose sticks make 26.
Tara: Ten, twenty, and six more. Twenty-six!
How many sticks?
Activity: How many sticks are on the table?
Nani's laddoo boxes
Nani packs 10 laddoos in each box.
When 10 are loose, she fills a new box.
Tara: Til laddoos for Kite Day! Yum!
Boxes and loose ones
Activity: Each box has 10 laddoos. Match the boxes to the number of laddoos.
Tens and ones
39 is 3 tens and 9 ones.
39 = 30 + 9
Tara: T is for tens. O is for ones.
Make 68
Activity: Which two cards make 68?
Ten tens
10 bundles of ten make 100.
We say one hundred.
Tara: Ten tens! What a big bundle!
Count by tens
Activity: Hetal counts the bundles by tens. What comes next?
Make 100
50 and 50 make 100. What else makes 100?
Activity: Join two numbers that make 100 together.
Which is more?
Hetal has 32 kites. Imran has 23 kites.
3 tens are more than 2 tens, so 32 is more!
Tara: Look at the tens first!
Activity: Which number is more: 57 or 75?
Same tens?
Same tens? Then look at the ones.
Activity: Both numbers have 6 tens. Which is more: 64 or 61?
More or less?
Each kite has a number on its tail.
Activity: Sort the kite numbers: more than 50, or less than 50?
Biggest number
Hetal has two cards: 3 and 8.
Activity: What is the biggest number she can make with these two cards?
Catch the kite!
Four friends race to catch a kite in the park.
The circle shirt is first. The square shirt is second.
Activity: Who is third in the race? Tap the shape on their shirt.
Numbers as names
Some numbers are names, like bus numbers.
Our digits, 0 to 9, first came from India!
Activity: Match each bus number to its number name.
Kite Day calendar
Kite Day is on 14 January.
Activity: On this calendar, which day of the week is 14 January?
Happy Kite Day!
You counted in tens and ones.
You made 100 and compared numbers!
Tara: Super counting! Happy Kite Day!

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Ch 1: A Day at the Beach

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