Twenty Eggs, Five Baskets

Morning light found twenty eggs waiting like a quiet little flock.

Five baskets stood ready. Spike asked: how many in each if we share fair?

Twenty shared by five is four each, Spike said. Not five because one egg looked important.

Suzy counted basket one: four. Basket two: four. Basket three, four, five: four.

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

Pavlova supervised the count like a fluffy clerk and added zero eggs by staring.

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

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

Kids: twenty crayons in five pots — four and 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.

Twenty. Five baskets. Honest.

Twenty ÷ five = four each.