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Friday, September 29, 2016

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow

Posted by Ana Grullon

Title: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Author: Eileen Christelow

Illustrator: Eileen Christelow

Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten 

Common Core Mathematics Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.5

Fluently add and subtract within 5.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.C.C.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.PK.OA.A.1

Demonstrate an understanding of addition and subtraction by using objects, fingers, and responding to practical situations (e.g., if we have 3 apples and add 2 more, how many apples do we have all together? 

Summary: 

Five Little Monkeys is a great story for kindergarten children.  It is about five little monkeys who take a bath and then put on their pajama to go the bed. When they are almost ready to sleep, one starts jumping on the bed. This little monkey was the first to fall down; mama monkey, who was also ready to sleep, heard the loud noise and came out of the bedroom. She found the first monkey on his bed with a big bump on his bed. She carried him and ran to call the doctor, who said “No more monkeys jumping on the bed.”

But while she was paying attention to this monkey, the others began jumping on bed too.

The second monkey fell off the bed and bumped his head so she carried the injured monkey and called the doctor who again said “No more monkeys jumping on the bed.” The other three monkeys then began to jump on the bed.  One fell off and bumped her head, so she called the doctor and he said again “No more monkeys jumping on the bed.” The two remaining little monkeys kept jumping one the bed until one fell off and bumped his head so mama call the doctor and he said: “No more monkeys jumping on the bed.” Now they were four little monkeys who had hurt themselves.  Finally, the fifth monkey also got injured.  She called the doctor for the last time. Then she put all of the little monkeys back into their bed. The five little monkeys fell fast asleep.  Their mother could now relax but what did she do?  She started jumping on her bed too!

Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book because it presents many ways to understand basic mathematical operations and problems that involve addition and subtraction. Also this story uses a song to make meaningful math connection for the students.

Classroom Ideas: This book is a good tool to teach very young students the concepts of subtraction and addition. Students can benefit from additional individual and group learning activities to reinforce counting forward and backward by using manipulative materials.

Just A Minute - A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

TITLE:   Just A Minute – A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

AUTHOR:  Yuyi Morales

Illustrator:  Maria De Lourdes Morales O’Meara

Awards: Pura Belpre Award (This award is given to Latino or Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for children or youth.

Ratings : 4.  This book is colorful, interactive and fun to read.

Recommended Grade Level: Grades pre-k – 1

Common Core Standards:  SMP. Model with Mathematics.

PKCC. Math. 2. Represent a number of objects with written numeral 0-10; connect counting to cardinality.

3. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.

 

Summary: This is a traditional tale.  Senor Calavera comes to Grandma Beetle’s door.  He is ready to take her to a next life. After helping her count in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparation he changes his mind. This is a great book for all ages with rich illustrations with English and Spanish counting presented in a fun way. This is a great book about family life and celebrations.

Classroom Ideas:  I would use this book to address multicultural issues while helping to teach counting and numbers in Spanish and English.   Students will use picture clues to help with understanding counting and cardinality. Students develop number and operations through concepts of adding one more. Students will know number names and the counting sequence through listening to the story and then using props to retell the story.

The Leaves Are Falling One by One Post by Jessica Sapkovski

The Leaves Are Falling One by One

POSTED BY JESSICA SAPKOVSKI

Title: The Leaves Are Falling One by One

Author and Illustrator: Steve Metzger, Miriam Sagasti

Recommended Grade Label: 3 years old – K

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.A1

Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

Common Core Standards for mathematical practice:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2:

Understanding the concept of using pictures, objects or numbers to solve problems.

Summary: This book is about counting the leaves that are falling one by one during the season of fall. This book illustrates different scenarios that happen in the forest with children and animals were the leaves are falling one by one.  The children and the animals are watching and touching the leaves falling down. The story keeps on going from the numbers 1-10. The children and animals are having a good time playing with the leaves and counting them. At the end they all jump together into all the different types leaves on the ground.

Ratings *****: I like it! I think this is a good book for children to learn how to count one by one. In addition, this book is great because it has repetition and visual involvement, which helps engage children. Also this book promotes adding in a fun and entertains form.

Classroom Ideas:  Some of the ideas I that I would like to introduce in my lesson plan with this book would be singing a song about autumn. Also while reading the book I would include the use body language, gestures, and a slow tone of voice. To assets children understanding I will ask to them to do an activity. A fun way can be collecting different types of leaves with children. Them ask students in a piece of construction paper to glue 1-10 leaves. Also they can make a tree with the leaves they collected.

Book Title: Too Many Kangaroo Things To Do Your Name: Chidiebere Onyenaobiya

Book Title: Too Many Kangaroo Things To Do

Your Name: Chidiebere Onyenaobiya

Image:

Author: Stuart J. Murphy

Illustrator: Kevin O’Malley

Recommended Grade Level: K-2

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS. Math. Content. k.c.c.4 Counting and Cardinality.

·         Understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities: connect counting to cardinality.

             SMP. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

·         CCSS. Math. Content. 1.OA.3 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.

SMP. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

·         CCSS. Math. 2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.

SMP. Look for and make use of structure.

Summary: This book is about a Kangaroo who went out on his birthday to his friends requesting that they come and play with him. His friends declined to his request. Unknown to him, his friends declined because they were all busy preparing for a surprised birthday party for him. On refusal, each group of friends tabulated their activities into a multiplication table.

Rating: ***** I am rating this book with 5 stars because it is a great fun book that children will enjoy reading and at the same time learn their multiplication with stress. The Students will keep on adding without the stress of memorizing any multiplication table.

Classroom ideas: The big idea here is that the students will apply the multiple means of learning to approach this problem as well as using preferred mode of communication to evidence real world application of numeration to identify numbers and quantities, arrange numbers in sequence and solve problems involving numbers less than 20. Students will be able to think about the use of numbers in our everyday activities. This will further help them to develop their sense of numbers.

The Grab Bag

Title: The Grab Bag

Author: Sheldon Kramer

Illustrator: Diane Greenseid

Name of Student: Althea Morris

Grade Level: Grade 2

CSSM Standard: 1. Make Sense of problem and Persevere in Solving Them.

Summary: Rosa had her birthday party. She made a grab bag and put presents in it for everyone. She names all the things that are in the grab bag. There were whistles, yo-yo, cars and a dog. The children made a chart to show what was in the bag. Each time they grab a present it was marked off. The children were able to show what toys were left in the bag and how many were taken. All the children were happy.

Classroom Connections: Children develop their own representations of numbers by creating graph. They will have a chance to count, compare, process and think

The book lends itself to a lot of interpretation. Children will be planning, formulate and make their own representation.

This could be used to teach a number of topics and there are openings to show differentiation. I see where it could engage the students help them to think when I use the right questions. There are some questions in the book but I would use my own questions.

Rating: 3 Stars

It uses simple words that are within the vocabulary of the children of this age group. Depicts happiness and children will be drawn to it because the children on the cover page seem to be having fun.  

The Enormous Turnip a fairy tale of a giant turnip

POSTED BY DANMEINA RODRIGUEZ

Title: The Enormous Turnip

Author: Alexei Tolstoy

Illustrator: Georgien Overwater

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS. Mathpractice.1.MD.A.1 Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps. 

Summary: This book is about a wonderful story, in which a grandfather plants a turnip seed, which grows so large that he cannot pull it up himself and He asks the grandmother for help, and they together still cannot pull it up. Successively a boy, girl, dog and cat are recruited to helping pull it up, until they finally pull the turnip up together. The grandfather is very pleased that he invites everyone for delicious supper.

Rating: **** This is a wonderful book with delightful illustrations for first reading level. Also, it introduces how the length units become turn into a giant once.

Classroom: This book can be used to teach mathematical concepts in addition, patterns and sequences. This story demonstrates the understanding of the sequence of events in the story by properly adding one by one. The students can write one or more additional people to the story “the Enormous Turnip”. This exercise would help then to understand how adding unit to the event increase the number of length.

Title: The Grouchy Ladybug

Author: Eric Carle

Illustrator: Eric Carle

Recommended grade level: Pre-school to Second Grade

Common core standards addressed:

1.     CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2.                  CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.                                     

3.     CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically.

Summary: The book is about an arrogant and grouchy ladybug, who at the opening of the book challenges another ladybug to fight over aphids. She backs down from fighting the ladybug stating that she is too small. The grouchy ladybug moves on to different parts of the world to find larger and larger animals to pick fights with over the course of 24 hours. He then encounters a whale, who slaps him away with his tail back to where he started.  The grouchy lady bugs meets again with the kind ladybug who offers her the same aphids; this time the grouchy ladybug is nice doesn’t rudely refuse she eats them.

 Rating: ***** (five stars).  I simply adore this book. It is quite imaginative and subtle introducing mathematical concepts, as well as introducing night and day. The fact that the book takes place over 24 hours helps the readers to learn how to read the clock on each page. It also highlights aspects of sizing from small to big and possibly from big to small.

Classroom Ideas: So many classroom ideas come to mind when thinking about this book. It is a great piece of literature and it is also a fun way to introduce the sequence of numbers as well as the clock. I would create a class book. I would ask each child to pick a number from a bowl, with numbers one through fourteen. Each number would represent the animals in the book starting with the kind ladybug and ending with the whale. Each student would draw the picture that his or her number would be connected to. We would gather them all in numerical and size order. The discussion of how the animal and the number increasing at the same rate would be the highlight. Eventually students would be asked to go from large to smaller using the same pictures they drew.