Sixteen Eggs, Four Nests

Nest boxes smelled like straw and quiet morning work.

Sixteen eggs waited. Four nests. Spike asked: how many in each if we share fair?

Sixteen shared by four is four each, Spike said. Not five because one egg looked bossy.

Suzy counted nest one: four. Nest two: four. Nest three: four. Nest four: four.

Four and four and four and four make sixteen — she checked by pointing once per egg.

Pavlova supervised like a fluffy accountant and added zero eggs by staring.

Adventure Cap wanted to race eggs. Thinking Cap habit said walk soft — shells are not toys.

Little Thunder sniffed and kept his mahogany distance from omelette ambitions.

Kids: sixteen crayons in four pots — four and four and four and four. Count each pot.

Farm maths is grouping that living things can trust.

Tools remind Spike to plan the share. Spike still carries the tray level.

Care means counting before you boast.

Sixteen. Four nests. Honest.

Sixteen ÷ four = four each.