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Remember the rhyme in lesson 5?

One, two - buckle my shoe,
Three, four - knock on the door,
Five, six - pick up sticks,
Seven, eight - close the gate,
Nine, ten - a big fat hen.

Now let's carry on:-

Eleven, twelve - dig and delve,
Thirteen, fourteen - couples courting,
Fifteen, sixteen - mice in the kitchen,
Seventeen, eighteen - I'm still waiting,
Nineteen, twenty - my plate's empty.

10 - 20 Some Interesting Facts about numbers

I have ten fingers on my hands and ten toes on my feet.
There are eleven players on a cricket team.
There are twelve months in a year.
In the UK thirteen is an unlucky number.
There are fourteen days in a fortnight.
Three times five is fifteen.
If you sleep eight hours a day, then you are awake for sixteen hours a day.
In the Harry Potter series, 17 is the coming of age for wizards.
There are eighteen holes in a round of golf.
Nineteen is the atomic number of potassium.
If you add up all my fingers and toes it comes to twenty.

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