Gnorman the Gnome's Berry Sharing

3-4 years
📚 Math & Logic
⏱️ 2 minutes

A little gnome learns to share berries equally with his friend using simple math.

1

The Berry Treasure

Gnorman the gnome finds a bush with four delicious red berries and feels very happy.

Gnorman the gnome skipped through the sunny forest. He found a special bush! On the bush were four big, red berries. "One, two, three, four!" he counted. "A yummy treasure for me!" He picked them all carefully.

2

A Friend Arrives

Gnorman's friend Squeaky the squirrel arrives, and Gnorman doesn't know how to share the four berries.

Just then, his best friend Squeaky the squirrel scampered over. "Ooh, berries!" Squeaky chattered. Gnorman looked at his four berries, and then at his friend. He felt a little sad. He wanted all the berries, but he also wanted to be a good friend. What should he do?

3

Fair and Square!

Gnorman has a smart idea to share the berries one by one, so they each get two.

Gnorman had a smart idea! "Let's share," he said. He gave a berry to Squeaky. "One for you." Then he took one. "And one for me." He did it again. Now they both had two berries! They munched happily together. Sharing was fun!

Moral of the Story
Sharing with friends makes everyone happy, and it's easy to be fair when you share one by one.