Video Script -- Lesson 19

Number 19

Subject: Maths | Class: Nursery | Series: Skillford

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Hello, busy learners! Are you ready? Today we are going to meet the number nineteen.

Look at it. Nineteen has a one and a nine. Say it with me. Nineteen!

Now look at the picture. There is soft green moss, big round rocks and a little waterfall splashing into a stream. And growing on the ground are lots of mushrooms! They have red, orange, yellow, purple, blue and pink tops, and every top has white spots.

Mushrooms like to grow in damp, shady places. Damp means a little bit wet. Shady means out of the bright sun. Near a waterfall is just right for them.

Let us count the mushrooms. Point to the top row. One, two, three, four. Next row. Five, six, seven, eight, nine. Next row. Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Last row. Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen! Nineteen mushrooms!

Here is a puzzle. Imagine twenty mushrooms. Now take one away. How many are left? Nineteen! Nineteen is one less than twenty.

On a number line, nineteen lives just before twenty. Let us count along. Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. And next comes twenty!

And another trick. Ten and nine more make nineteen. The one in nineteen means one ten. The nine means nine ones.

Do you have some clay? Roll a little stalk and press a round top on it. You made a mushroom! Can your class make nineteen?

Let us write nineteen in the air. Hold up your finger.

First the one. Start at the top and go straight down.

Now the nine. Start just under the top. Draw a round circle. Then draw a line straight down. Nineteen!

Let us try again. Straight down for one. Round circle, then line down for nine. Very good!

Your teacher says to start the nine just under the top, so the circle comes out nice and round.

In your book, start at the green dots and follow the arrows. On the last rows you write nineteen all by yourself.

At the top of the page there are nineteen mushrooms. Colour them in, and count each one as you go.

On another page there are lots of little red cars. Count them all. How many? Nineteen! Match them to the number nineteen.

Let us remember what we learned today. This number is nineteen.

Nineteen comes just before twenty. Twenty take away one is nineteen.

To write it, we draw a straight one, then a nine with a round circle and a line down.

You were brilliant today! Keep counting to nineteen. See you next time! Bye-bye!