The message from the town

Day 7 · Five optional activities. Get a pencil and some colours, and choose one task at a time.

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Try day 7 as a comic

Follow the boy from a message to a note you can check. A separate trial version with two A4 pages.

Page 1: an illustrated market stall with baskets and jars, and three cards for a counting task — Page 1 · Explore the stall and order the cards

Page 2: a message and a note, a big empty basket to draw in and a counting game for two — Page 2 · Read the notes, draw and check together

Read the tasks as text

Picture descriptions for the tasks:
1. On the counter: a small basket on the left, a jar in the middle and a wide basket on the right. Under the counter: a jar on the left, a tall basket in the middle and three apples on the right. Count only the baskets.
2. The cards from the left: Write the number. (the number 3 on a sheet). Count once more. (three baskets with an arrow above). Count the baskets. (three baskets). Under each card is an empty circle for the number.
4. A big empty basket with five empty boxes below. Draw things in the basket and one mark for each thing in the boxes.

THE JOURNEY WITH LUKE / ACTIVITY WORKSHOP
07
The message from the town
Get a pencil and some colours. Choose one task at a time.
Made-up exercises inspired by the game. These are not historical sources.
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1
Find what to count
The message says: “Count the baskets in the stall.” Circle the baskets in the picture. How
many do you find?
THE STALL
I found
baskets. Do not count the jars or the apples.
2
Put the cards in order
First you count. Then you write the number. At the end you count once more. Write 1, 2 and
3 in the circles.
3
Write the number.
Count once more.
Count the baskets.

THE JOURNEY WITH LUKE / ACTIVITY WORKSHOP
07
From message to note
Get a pencil and some colours. Choose one task at a time.
Made-up exercises inspired by the game. These are not historical sources.
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3
What do the notes say?
Read both notes. Which one says that someone has counted?
A · MESSAGE
“All the baskets must be counted.”
Note A
B · NOTE
“We have counted three baskets.”
Note B
A message to do something is not the same as a note saying that it has been done.
4
Fill your own basket
Draw five different things in the basket. Make a small mark for each thing in the boxes below.
5
Count and check together
Put some small things on a table. Count them on your own, one each. Write down the number
without showing it. Compare. Did you get different answers? Count together and find out why.

Made-up exercises inspired by the game. You can use the sheets without remembering the conversations in the game.