Place Value Song For Kids | Ones, Tens, & Hundreds | 1st - 3rd Grade

Picking pears, I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; That's all that fits within the units'

place

value

line. Then I chose another pear and made a group of ten. They fit perfectly in a bag. 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90: I had to keep picking pears (a hunger I had to satisfy), so I picked another ten and that made a group of one hundred. (A pear hit me on the head and I said...) Ten

ones

are ten. Ten groups of ten are one hundred. Ten

hundreds

are a thousand; the pattern never ends. I biked a full mile, then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and before long another mile formed a group of ten.

A little voice inside my head said, "Keep going, I know you can!" 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90: I never knew I had so many miles inside me! The end of my journey was approaching; I traveled ten more miles and reached a hundred. (Then that little voice inside my head said...) Ten

ones

are ten. Ten groups of ten are one hundred. Ten

hundreds

are a thousand; the pattern never ends. After the bell rang at eight, I started playing with my base ten blocks. I stacked nine and then one more made ten, and then ten

tens

equaled one hundred. 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900: another hundred didn't fit in the hundreds space...

I had to write a group in the thousands

place

! (And then I played the double bass). Ten units are ten. Ten groups of ten are one hundred. Ten hundreds are a thousand; the pattern never ends. Ten units are ten. Ten groups of ten are one hundred. Ten hundreds are a thousand; the pattern never ends. Ten groups of thousand equal ten thousand. Ten ten thousand is one hundred thousand. And ten of them make a million, and the pattern has no end.