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.
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