Big and Little by Steven Jerkins POSTED BY ELSA NUNEZ

Title: BIG & LITTLE

Author: Steven Jenkins

Illustrator: Unknown

Recommended Grade Level: Pre k-2^nd grade

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:

Measurement and Data

PRE-K

Describe and compare measurable attributes.

1. Identify measurable attributes of objects, such as length, and weight. Describe them using correct vocabulary (e.g. small, big, short, tall, empty, full, heavy, and light).

KINDERGARTEN

Describe and compare measurable attributes.

1. Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

2. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/“less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.

FIRST GRADE

Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.

SECOND GRADE

Measure and estimate lengths in standard units

Summary: This book is about animals that are related but different in size. All of the creatures in this book are illustrated at the same scale so that animals throughout the book can be compares. Pairs of similar animals, one large and one small are shown together animals such as house cat and a tiger, crocodile and a chameleon, a tiny fennec fox and a giant gray wolf. Every animal in the book is shown at the same size (one inch equals eight inches).

Rating: I highly recommend this book when you want to teach your students about ratio, proportion and scale. This book helps students understand the concept of big and small. In this book students are able to compare the animals and too see which animal is bigger and smaller.

Classroom Ideas: With this book teacher could line up the students and teach or show each child how to measure their height and compare with each other who is taller and who is smaller. This activity could be done in pairs.

Diandra Salmeri- ME Counting Time, From Seconds to Centuries

Title: ME Counting Time, From Seconds to Centuries

Author: Joan Sweeney

Illustrated by: Annette Cable

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:

Additions; Counting and Regrouping developing understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones. Number and operations in base ten.

(1) Students extend their understanding of the base-ten system. This includes ideas of counting in fives, tens, and multiples of hundreds, tens, and ones, as well as number relationships involving these units, including comparing. Students understand multi-digit numbers (up to 1000) written

Summary:

Take a journey through time, from seconds to centuries, as a young girl is planning her birthday party. Starting with seconds to minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, with an explanation of each unit!

Rating: *****

I would rate this book 5 stars! This book steps outside the box of what you would think a counting book would be about. Just by looking at the cover, one would assume that the book is about telling time, but it is so much more! There is a full description and explanation of each unit of time, and the author does it in such a fun and exciting way! Any child could relate to this book!

Classroom Ideas:

I would recommend reading this book out loud, at the start of any math unit. This book goes above and beyond and truly can be used for many different math lessons. Teachers may use this book for science lesson, because as the young birthday girl learns about each unit of time, we learn that the world rotates once, in 24 hours. This book can also be used in a social studies lesson as well, because we learn about the different events in history!

A Fair Bear Share

A Fair Bear Share

By Stuart J. Murphy

Illustrated by John Speirs

Recommended Grade Level 1^st - 2^nd

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Additions; Counting and Regrouping developing understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones. Number and operations in base ten.

(1) Students extend their understanding of the base-ten system. This includes ideas of counting in fives, tens, and multiples of hundreds, tens, and ones, as well as number relationships involving these units, including comparing. Students understand multi-digit numbers (up to 1000) written

in base-ten notation, recognizing that the digits in each place represent amounts of thousands, hundreds, tens, or ones (e.g., 853 is 8 hundreds + 5 tens + 3 ones).

Summary: The bear cubs go furrowing in the woods for seeds, berries and nuts for their Mama Bear’s Blue Ribbon Blueberry Pie. It involves the cubs doing their fair share of gathering the ingredients to make the pie. Using the method addition and regrouping to count their findings by placing them into groups of tens and ones.

Rating: **** This book shows a family used math in their everyday lives. A Fair Bear Share gives an account of each cub doing their fair share to accomplish a goal at the end, to have Mama Bear’s special pie. It is colorful, detailed and shows the nuts, berries and seeds in its own groups of tens and ones.

Classroom Ideas: Teacher will read the story out loud to the students describing and modeling what is taking place on each page. Asking questions throughout the story, for example how many groups of ten can you count in the first basket of berries collected? Are there any ones left over? Encourage your students to find things in the classroom that they can find in groups of ten for example chalk, pencils and crayons? Are there any leftover? Things that we know that comes in groups of ten?

The Missing Mittens By Stuart J. Murphy

Book title: The missing Mittens by Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrator: G. Brian Karas
Grade: 1st
Standards:
II. Number sense, computation, and operations.
Represent quantities using whole numbers and understand relationships among whole numbers.
3. Compare the numbers of objects in two or more sets.
Summary:
This book teaches about the concept of odd and even numbers. It shows great illustration to provide good understanding of the topic. Also the vocabulary of the book is easy to read and understand and it has very explicit details for young readers.
Rating: I highly recommend this book because of the detail and colorful pictures that it contains and because it is a great source for children who want to do free reading about odd and even numbers. Also, it is a great book for adult to read to children because they both will have fun. I personally liked the book and I read it to my 1 year old baby because it can be use for different purposes, for counting, for learning about what we wear in the winter time etc…. With my baby I was focus on the animals and the sound they make because this is what he tries to do. So, it is a good book for parents to share some reading time with their children.
Classroom Ideas:
Well, I can use this book to teach about the difference between odd and even numbers. Also, children can make connections as text to self and identify how many of an item we need to wear. For example, if they are wearing mittens, socks, or shoes, how many do they need? If they are wearing hats, sweaters, or scarf, how many do they need? I can also take the opportunity to teach them about pairs since they are learning about even numbers. This is a way to expand mathematics vocabulary making the children understand that pairs can be even numbers too.

Earth Day-Hooray

Title: Earth Day-Hooray
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrated by: Renee Andriani
Grade Level: 1- 3

Common Core Standards:

Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete
models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of
operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction;
relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones
and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
5. Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the
number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.

Summary:

In Earth day-hooray, the math concept is place value. Understand place values is an important step in developing a grasp of large numbers. The relationship between ones, tens, hundreds and thousands is key as children begin to do calculations with multi-digits numbers. Earth day- hooray also teaches students about the recycling. This book can also be use in social studies around the time of earth day.

Rating:

***** I really enjoy reading this book. I recommend this book for first and second graders. The illustration in this book is very colorful and bright.


Classroom Ideas:

This book is a great this book can be use to introduce the topic of place value are reinforce the importance of place values. As teacher read the story with students, they can point out how the cans are bundled together in groups of 10s, 100s, and 1,000s. Teachers can also write down a 3-digit number and have the students draw bundles of cans to represent the number. Earth day- hooray also teaches students about recycling. This book can also be use in social studies around the time of earth day.

Quack and Count by Keith Baker posted by Carole Watler

Title: Quack and Count

Author: Keith Baker

Grade Level: K- 1

Common Core Standards: Representing, relating and operating on whole numbers, initially with sets of objects.

Counting and Cardinality (2) Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence. Count to tell the number of objects (4) understand the relationship between numbers and quantaties (7) compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numbers.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking: (1) represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings and sounds (3) decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way

Summary:

This book introduces the reader to seven little ducklings who are having fun right before they fly away. The author uses rhyming and repitition to engage the reader. Young readers will enjoy making the 'quack quack' sound. Readers will see and learn many ways to count seven ( eg. 4+3, 5+2, 6+1).

Rating:

**** I highly recommmend this book for early learners who are exploring numbers. It is easy reading, the pictures are colorful and the concept is kept simple. They are learning about numbers and the life of a ducking at the same time.

Classroom Ideas:

I would use this book once the studetns have learned numbers 1-10 and the concept of addition and the symbol (+). It's a great tool to review those concepts and introduce 'how many ways can we say a number'. After reading the book to the class, the teacher can have the students write and show the different ways to show 7. Students can use pictures and numbers in their work and share with the class.

Missing Mittens by Stuart J. Murphy posted by Christine Tedeschi

Title: Missing Mittens
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrator: G. Brian Karas
Recommended Grade Level: 1-2

Common Core Standards Addressed: Number Concepts, Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication, Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Summary: When Farmer Bill is getting dressed on a snowy day, he discovers that he is short one mitten, and "One mitten's not a pair." Continuing his day, the farmer soon learns that his cow has the same dilemma. As he goes about working around his farm, the situation escalates. His three chickens have only five mittens, and his two horses have only seven mittens. Finally, Farmer Bill and his animals spot the cause of their problem; it's a mitten-chewing goat.

Rating: **** I really enjoyed this book. The illustrations are bright, extremely colorful and fun. In addition, the clumsy rhymes keep this book flowing wonderfully. I especially like the side-by-side comparison of odd and even mittens.

Classroom Ideas: This book is a great introduction to odd & even numbers. It could also be used for multiplication of the number two. I like the idea of using animals that children are familiar with to show how many mittens they would need for their limbs. I would read this story twice to a class if conducting a lesson on odd & even numbers. The second time reading the story I would have the students chart the mittens by odd and even and written the amount next to each box. This way the class can see the pattern of even numbers 2,4,6,8 and odd 1,3,5,7.