Title: The Grouchy Ladybug
Author: Eric Carle
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Recommended grade
level: Pre-school to Second Grade
Common core standards
addressed:
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.
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