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

Book Title: Too Many Kangaroo Things To Do

Your Name: Chidiebere Onyenaobiya

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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.