Video Script -- Lesson 14

Number 14

Subject: Maths | Class: Nursery | Series: Skillford

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Hello, friends! Welcome to maths time. Let us count up to thirteen together. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Lovely! What comes next? Fourteen! Today we are learning the number fourteen.

Look at this big number. There is a straight line, and next to it there is a number four. Together they make fourteen. Say it with me. Four-teen!

Now look at the picture. We are on a farm. There is a little wooden hen house full of straw, a fence, and a big red barn far away. And here is a happy hen with a red comb on her head. She looks very proud. Can you guess why?

Look at the grass in front of her. Eggs! Let us count them. Touch each one. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Fourteen eggs!

Did you know that chicks hatch from eggs? A tiny chick grows inside the egg. Then one day, tap, tap, tap, it cracks the shell and out it comes. Cheep, cheep!

Look at the eggs again. They are in two rows. Count the back row. Seven! Count the front row. Seven! Two rows of seven make fourteen. And here is another way. Ten eggs and four more eggs also make fourteen. Show me ten fingers. Now four more. Fourteen!

Fourteen is a special number in Pakistan. The 14th of August is Pakistan's Independence Day. Find 14 on a calendar and draw a circle round it.

Here is a fun job. Make a nest from strips of paper. Can you put fourteen eggs in your nest? Count them in, one by one.

Now let us trace the number fourteen. Hold up your finger and draw it in the air.

For the 1, start at the top and go straight down.

For the 4, start at the top and draw a slanting line down. Lift your finger. Now draw a line straight across, with a little tail sticking out. Last of all, draw a straight line down. Slant, across, down. That is a 4!

Let us try again. Straight down for 1. Slant, across, down for 4. Fourteen!

Your teacher says to lift your pencil after the slanting line. That helps you make a strong, neat 4.

On the next page there are lots of small eggs and one big egg. Count them all. Fourteen! You can colour them in.

Then we will put fourteen in a tens and ones box. One ten and four ones make fourteen.

Let us remember what we learned today. Fourteen comes after thirteen.

Fourteen is ten and four more. Two rows of seven also make fourteen.

To make 14, draw a straight line, then slant, across and down.

You did brilliantly, friends! Count fourteen things at home today. See you next time! Bye-bye!