Counting can be fun! I remember many counting games and rhymes from my childhood! These types of things can be used to help children become interested in counting! The scholastic book Ten in the Bed by: Jane Cabrera is one of the cutest way to teach counting with Pre-K and Kindergarten students!
In this picture book, there are ten animals in the bed. It is crowded! They all move over and one falls out. This allows students to see what happens when you subtract one animal. Once we lose that animal, there are nine left in the bed. Each time all of the animals move over one animal is subtracted. After all of the animals fall out of the bed they all dance around. Finally, they all get back in the bed and go to sleep.
This book shows subtraction and counting in sequence. These are necessary math concepts to study with beginning students. Not only is this book great to introduce math, it is loaded with phonemic awareness. The rhymes are great for the students to practice sounds and word families. You cover two subject areas with this one book!
Students have to have a solid foundation in numbers and counting before moving on to more complex mathematical concepts. From my experience in the classroom, this is a favorite among students. With the predictable text, they can read along with the teacher to practice these skills. It is a great book for a classroom library because children at this young age can pretend to read. This is the first step to reading. Students are conquering many skills with this book!
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ReplyDeleteI love you book choice Maggie. This sounds like a wonderful math concept book to incorporate into my future classroom. I love how this book really ties into language with phonemic awareness as well as with the math concepts. Integration is always a plus. The story line of this book also seems fun the children could maybe even act out the story as it goes to give them a real feel for subtraction and the sequence of numbers. Great choice! Thank you for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteI love this book! It's so cute and so practical! It's a great way to introduce counting and even subtraction. I never even thought about the fact that two subjects are being taught in this book. That was a great discovery! I will definitely be adding this to my classroom library!
ReplyDeleteI actually have this book at home, and my nephew loves it! The animals have his attention from the start! It reminds me of the book Mrs. Nichols introduced us to about kids falling out of the bed. I agree that having a solid foundation in numbers and counting is very important because math builds upon concepts. Students who do not have that solid foundation will continue to struggle as concepts get more complex. I also like that this book addresses phonemic skills. Thanks for sharing!
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