Text innovation
Use a felt board or a magnetic story board to tell a Hungry Caterpillar type of story that includes numbers. Then get the students to create their own minibooks about their own hungry “something”. Their stories could be about, for example, a very hungry schoolbag that gobbles up classroom equipment! The ending could be a tummy ache or a big sneeze, along the lines of the taniwha ending in the He Purapura story Kei Roto i te Moana.