Each sock in the classroom collection must have a match. In this activity book, each of the 27 activities includes one instructional page and one reproducible student page. The instructional page provides the teacher with an introduction to the activity, instructions for conducting the activity, and open-ended questions for observation and reflection. The student pages serve as recording sheets for each activity. In a sample activity, Starfish in Socks, students first brainstorm about animals that would wear two socks, four socks, five socks, six socks, and eight socks.
Children then sit in a circle and form two-legged creatures with their fingers and count by twos.
They then create three-legged creatures with their fingers and count by threes and finally use the activity sheet to draw and tally the number of socks one, two,and three starfish would wear. In follow up questions, the teacher leads students in a discussion about the number pattern of the last digit when skip counting by fives.