Video Script -- Lesson 8

Number 8

Subject: Maths | Class: Nursery | Series: Skillford

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Hello, friends! Are you ready for maths? Let us count to seven together. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. What comes after seven? Eight! Today our number is eight.

Look at this big red number. This is eight. Say it with me. Eight!

Now look at the picture. We are under the sea! There is coral, seaweed and lots of bubbles going up, up, up. And look at all these happy fish swimming about. Let us count them. Touch each fish as we go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight fish!

Some of the fish have stripes. Can you find the orange fish with white stripes? Some of the fish have spots. Can you find the pink fish with white spots? There are so many colours: orange, yellow, pink, purple, blue, green and red.

Fish live in water, and they breathe under water too. They do not need to come up for air like we do. Can you puff your cheeks like a fish? Pop, pop, pop!

Here is a fun game. Make eight paper fish and put a paper clip on each one. Tie a little magnet to a string. Now go fishing! Count the fish you catch.

You can make a fish tank from a box. Colour the inside blue like water and put your eight paper fish inside.

Here is a clever trick. Four fish and four more fish make eight fish. Hold up four fingers on this hand and four fingers on that hand. Count them all. Eight!

Now it is time to write eight. Your teacher says that first we need to make a letter S. Can you draw an S in the air? Start at the top, curve round and down, round and down.

Now, without stopping, go back up to the top and close the two circles. Look, it is eight! Let us do it again. S shape, then back up to the top. Eight!

When you trace eight in your book, start at the green dot and follow the arrows. Try not to lift your pencil. At the top of that page there are eight fish for you to colour. Give some of them stripes and some of them spots.

Then there are ladybirds sitting on two leaves. Count the ladybirds on each leaf, and draw a circle around the right number.

Let us remember what we learned today. The number eight is called eight.

Eight comes after seven. Four and four more make eight.

To write eight, make an S, then go back up and close both circles.

What a super job you did today! Swim like a fish and count to eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Bye-bye!