Place Value to the Millions Song

Rob picked nine blueberries and then one more made ten

After the ninety-ninth berry he picked one-hundred

And then he picked nine hundred ninety-nine by the day's end

And when Rob found one more on the ground that made one-thousand

I lived next to a patch of wild blueberries

Every day I filled my bucket and ate one-thousand of these

After day one I'd eaten one-thousand of them

Then two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and then ten-thousand

Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety-thousand berries

I ate so many of these it was hard to believe

But ten days later what I found out then

I'd eaten one-hundred groups of one-thousand

That's one hundred-thousand berries

Jeez Louise

Ten ones make ten

Ten groups of ten are one-hundred

Ten hundreds make one-thousand

The pattern never ends

Ten thousands make ten-thousand

Ten ten-thousands make one hundred-thousand

Ten hundred-thousands make one-million

The pattern's brilliant

I hiked a mountain with terraces made by the Incas

There were more stones in all than I could think of

So I counted ten stones high and ten thousand across

Which meant each terrace was made of one-hundred thousand rocks

Two-hundred, three-hundred, four-hundred, five-hundred, six-hundred-thousand

Seven-hundred, eight-hundred, nine-hundred thousand

And the tenth terrace up the mountain

Meant in all the stones were one-million

I hiked all the way to Machu Picchu, and then I knew

Ten ones make ten

Ten groups of ten are one-hundred

Ten hundreds make one-thousand

The pattern never ends

Ten thousands make ten-thousand

Ten ten-thousands make one hundred-thousand

Ten hundred-thousands make one million

The pattern's brilliant

I took my math notebook with me to art

And started making a paper mache place value chart

First there's the ones, ones, tens, hundreds