Kindergarten Unit 1 Lesson 3: Milo’s Ten Frame Adventure

In Milo’s Ten-Frame Adventure, students explore how ten frames help them recognize, represent, and count numbers from 0–10 more efficiently. Through engaging, hands-on activities, children use counters, ten frames, drawings, and numeral writing to build strong number sense while following the Concrete → Pictorial → Abstract (CPA) instructional model. 

🦁 Materials List

Teacher Materials

☐ Milo the Math Lion™ puppet

☐ Large ten-frame pocket chart

☐ Number cards (0–10)

☐ Whiteboard

☐ Dry-erase markers

☐ Safari picture cards

Manipulatives (Concrete Learning)

☐ Two-color counters

☐ Linking cubes

☐ Ten-frame mats

☐ Animal counters

☐ Dot cards

Student Materials

☐ Individual ten frames

☐ Crayons

☐ Dry-erase board

☐ Pencil