Small Friends Pond — Lesson 37: Game time: Friend Pop
Small Friends Pond test →Lesson 37: Friend pop: an abacus friends of 5 game
Level 3, Small Friends Pond. A card shows a number. Pop the balloon that makes 5 with it.
What your child does, card by card
Game time: Friend Pop. Pop the friend that makes 5! PlayBuddy opens the lesson: “Game time! Let's play with the beads!”
Game time: Friend Pop fills the lesson window. A card shows a number on one abacus rod; four balloons float below, and your child pops the one that makes 5 with it. 10 friends win the round; a wrong balloon only wobbles.
All friends found! Friend Pop is on the Games page too.
What this lesson trains
Knowing the friends of 5 at a glance, the pairs every small-friend move rests on. The same game is free on the Games page, with friends of 5 and friends of 10.
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: “Find the friend that makes five.”
Stars
A finished round earns the lesson’s stars; a miss costs nothing.