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ACTIVITY 16: Students cut out the pictures and put them in a sequence that tells a story. Pairs of
students can work together. Any sequence is a acceptable as long as students can tell a story.
Individual students can volunteer to tell the story in their own words.
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ACTIVITY 17: Students look at the pictures and answer the questions: T: What do you see? What
does the doctor drive? Where does she work? Students draw lines to connect people with their
proper vehicles and locations.
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ACTIVITY 18: Students cross out the object that doesn’t belong. T: What does the (doctor) have?
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ACTIVITY 19: Students cut out the pictures and put them in a sequence that tells a story. Pairs of
students can work together. Any sequence is acceptable as long as students can tell a story.
Individual students can volunteer to tell the story in their own words.
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ACTIVITY 20: Game: Helper Bingo. (See Game Directions in back). Students cut out the cards.
They then paste them randomly within the grid on the next page.
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ACTIVITY 21: Students create a pretend scene on this page. T: Let’s make a pretend scene. Draw
something silly in the tree! Draw something silly in the lake! Colour the water purple. Give
directions to your friends. Tell them some other silly colours to colour things.
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ACTIVITY 1: Game: Number Bingo. Distribute markers. Students write one numeral per box at
random. They use any number from 1-10.
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ACTIVITY 2: Students trace numbers and draw lines from the numbers to the cake with the
corresponding number of candles. T: How many candles are on the first cake? Let’s count them.
Can you find that number? Which one is Grover’s cake?
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ACTIVITY 3: Students look at the pictures at the top of the page and discuss what’s wrong with
the order. Then they cut out the pictures, reorder them in the right sequence, and paste them in the
frames at the bottom of the page.
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ACTIVITY 4: Students draw their own versions of a birthday party. Then can decorate the room as
they wish and draw their friends. Then they can count the objects used in their drawings. T: How
many (presents) do you have?
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ACTIVITY 5: Students listen and colour. T: The rabbit is brown. It has a little pink nose. The
puppy is brown and white. The kitten is white. The turtle is green and has a long neck. The worm is
orange with red stripes. The bat is black. The hamster has little brown ears and a short brown tail.
Can you add more animals to the picture?
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ACTIVITY 6: Students make their own clocks.

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ACTIVITY 7: Game: The Clock Game.

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ACTIVITY 8: Game: Concentration or Go Fish

Students colour and cut out the cards on this page and the next page. T: How can you take care of
your pet?
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ACTIVITY 10: T: Colour all the rectangles brown, circles yellow, triangles red, and squares blue.
Cut out the shapes. Make a (cat, dog, etc.) using the shapes.
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ACTIVITY 11: T: Cut out all the foods and help Bert put them on the shelves on the facing page.
Paste the orange juice next to the apple juice. Paste the cereal below the apple juice. Students take
turns giving further directions.
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ACTIVITY 12: Students colour the foods and draw lines from the food to the shopping cart
representing the correct food group. T: Which food group does (cheese) belong to? Draw a line
from the (cheese) to the (dairy) shopping cart.
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ACTIVITY 13: Students colour in the coins they would need to buy each combination of fruit
presented.
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ACTIVITY 14: Students look at the picture. They cut out the pictures on the next page and paste
them where they belong. T: Does he helicopter go on the land, in the water, on in the air? Let’s
paste it in the air. What else goes on the land? In the water? In the air?
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ACTIVITY 15: Students talk about the activities in the pictures and determine what the weather is
like in each. Then they cut the appropriate sky pictures and paste it in to complete the picture. T:
What is the weather like?