Use this resource in your math classroom when learning to count forward and backward from 0–10 and when working on one-to-one correspondence when counting. This activity is great to use when singing the number rhyme ‘Ten in the Bed’.

This resource includes:

• 1 x bed with dotted cut lines
• 1 x bed without dotted cut lines
• 1 x strip of teddies from 1 to 10
• 10 x individual teddies numbered from 1 to 10.

This resource can be used in the following ways:

Number Slider 

• Print the bed with the dotted cut lines and the outlined strip of bears.
• Cut out the outlined strip of bears, including the ‘pull me’ tab.
• Laminate the bed and the strip of teddies.
• Cut along the dotted lines on the bed.
• Feed the strip of bears through the slot on the right-hand side of the bed. Make sure the bears go under the blanket!
• As the student sings the number rhyme, have them pull the tab so that the bears slide off the bed, one by one, from 10 to 0.

Magnet Bears

• Print the bed without the dotted cut lines onto cardstock.
• Print the individual bears onto cardstock, then cut and laminate.
• Attach a small magnet to the back of each bear.
• Display the bed on a whiteboard and place the bears on the bed.
• As the student sings the number rhyme, have them remove the bears from the bed, one at a time, from 10 to 0.

One-to-One Correspondence

• Print the bed without the dotted cut lines and the individual bears.
• Cut out each bear.
• Ask the students to put a specific number of bears in the bed.
• Alternately, have a stack of digit cards that students flip over to determine the number of bears to place in the bed.

This activity is great to use in a math center or your guided math group.

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