Lesson 11: Bead balloons: abacus reading game
Level 1, Bead Village. Each balloon carries a little abacus. Type its number to pop it.
What your child does, card by card
Game time: Bead Balloons. Read the beads. Pop the balloon! PlayBuddy opens the lesson: “Game time! Let's play with the beads!”
Game time: Bead Balloons fills the lesson window. Each balloon carries a little abacus with 2 rods; your child reads it and types the number (or taps it on the pad below) to pop it. 10 balloons win the round. A balloon that floats away costs nothing.
You popped them all! Bead Balloons is on the Games page too.
What this lesson trains
Reading the beads at a glance: every balloon is a number on 2 rods, read and typed before it floats away. The same game is free on the Games page at three sizes.
Fingers and hands
During the game the number pad takes the hands’ place in the lower window.
What PlayBuddy and PlayType say
PlayBuddy: “Game time! Let's play with the beads!”
PlayBuddy: “Click Let's Begin, or press Enter!”
PlayBuddy: “Look at the beads and read the number.”
Stars
A finished round earns the lesson’s stars; a balloon that floats away costs nothing.