Laurie's Crooked Snowman
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Count With Laurie’s Crooked Snowman
People around the world learn different ways to speak, and different ways to count and write numbers. For example, the number written as 7 can be said as seven, or siete, or shichi, or sette. 7 can be written as
? in Mandarin Chinese, ? in Arabic, ? or ??? in Hindi, ?? in Korean, and VII in Latin.
Learning new languages is fun!
Count along with Laurie’s Snowman as he grows, crooked, teetering, until he reaches the number 12…
and the number ? ?
and the number ??
and the number ????
and the number ??
and the number XII .
...One beautiful winter day, Laurie gathers her friends to make a snowman.
As her 12 friends get ready to roll snowballs, each tells Laurie hello.
“Ni Hao ??.” Míng ?, from China, speaks Mandarin.
“Hola.” Lucía, from Spain, speaks Spanish.
“Hello.” Jack, from the United Kingdom, speaks English.
“Marhaba ????.” Hassan ???, from Dubai, speaks Arabic.
“Namaste ??????.” Arpita, from India, speaks Hindi.
“Olá.” João, from Portugal, speaks Portuguese.
“Privet ??????.” Yelena, from Russia, speaks Russian.
“Konnichiwa.” Hiroto, from Japan, speaks Japanese.
“Guten tag.” Mia, from Germany, speaks German.
“Bonjour.” Nathan, from France, speaks French.
“Ahn nyeong.” Min-jun ??, from South Korea, speaks Korean.
“Ciao.” Francesco, from Italy, speaks Italian.
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Learning new languages is fun! Count along with Laurie’s Snowman as he grows, crooked, teetering, until he reaches the number 12.
People around the world learn different ways to speak, and different ways to count and write numbers.
Learn to count to 12 in several languages as Laurie rolls snowballs with her 12 friends from around the world. Then, color and draw your own snowmen.
About the Author
Enrico Ciro Daniele was born in Bracigliano, Italy, in the province of Salerno. When Rico was 4 years old, his family came to the United States and settled in Springfield, Massachusetts. Rico’s early memories of his father taking him along to watch games of bocce turned into a lifelong passion. At the age of ten, when Mount Carmel Society members gave him an old set of bocce balls, Rico and bocce became inseparable. Much of Rico’s life has been devoted to sports, ranging from ping pong to baseball to basketball, though the game of bocce was his first and, to this day, predominant love...a love that Rico wishes to share with the whole world, literally, through the efforts of Mom and Rico Daniele’s Specialty Market of Springfield. “Bocce is the perfect sport for everyone,” Rico says, “something that everyone can play, young or old. Let’s get bocce courts in schools and playgrounds for the kids, parents, and grandparents, to bring our families together with this simple game that takes five minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master.”