Parenting Tip: It’s Time for Number Rhymes! May 17, 2011

Learning to recognize and write numbers can be a snap with these number rhymes!

Say them with your keiki as you trace your finger along the number. Next, have keiki trace his or her finger as you say the rhyme.
If you can make your own “sandpaper numbers” with glue and sand, it’s a great tactile way for young children to practice prewriting skills.
Older keiki can use a large pencil to practice writing the numbers as he or she repeats the rhyme.

A straight line down
Then we’re done
That’s the way to make a 1

Around and back on the railroad track
Two, two, two…2

Around a tree, around a tree
That is how you make a 3

Down and over
Down once more
That is how you make a 4

Fat old 5
Goes down and around
Put on his hat and see what you’ve found.

Down in a loop
6 rolls a hoop.

Across the sky
And down from heaven
That is how you make a 7

Make an “S” and do not wait
Go back up and that’s an 8

Make a loop
And then a line
That is how you make a 9

A line
And a zero
10’s my hero.