Osam Rabadi - EDE 715 6:15pm Book Club

Rooster's Off to See the World

Title: Rooster's off to see the world

Author: Eric Carle

Illustrator: Eric Carle

Recommended Grade Level: Ages 4-8

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Operations and algebraic thinking, counting & cardinality, number and operations in base ten

Summary: Rooster is lonely and decides that he wants to travel. He decides to set out to see the world. He encounters two cats, three frogs, four turtles, and five fish. When roosters new found friends decide that they are hungry, tired and no longer want to carry on with their adventure, they decide to leave roosters side. First the five fish, then the four turtles, three frogs and two cats, they all leave in this order. Rooster is upset about his friends leaving him, but then remembers that he does have a place to stay. He has a place where he can enjoy a good meal of grain and his very own perch to stay on. Keeping the good memories of his adventure with his new friends, Rooster decides that he did not make a mistake by traveling rather he gained happy memories from his travels.

Rating: (least 1- 5 greatest) ***** This book teaches children the fundamentals of counting, adding, and subtracting. Eric Carle does a wonderful job in both his writing and illustration. He keeps the children engaged in the story by showing off his beautiful illustration. Carle educates children by getting them engaged in the story by having them predict the outcome in the story. I recommend this book to children of ages 3-9.

Classroom Ideas: Create a game with the class using a graph, colored cubes and pictures of the animals in the book. The teacher can use colored cubes to represent the animals in the story. One cube, for instance the red cube, can represent the rooster, the two black cubes can represent the cats, three green cubes can represent the frogs and so on . Have the students take turns pulling out one cube at a time. The students will then mix and match while adding and subtracting the colored cubes to get different outcomes in the story. The students can then see which animals decide to go on the adventure with rooster and which animals leave him behind. This will teach children how to predict, count forwards and backwards and teach them basic math skills.

Little Quack, Ana santapau

Title: Little Quack
Author:Lauren Thompson
Illustrator: Derek Anderson
Recommended Grade Level: PreK -1

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:
-Counting and Cardinality
-Operation and Algebraic Thinking

Summary: This story is about Mama Duck and her five little ducklings, Widdle, Waddle, Piddle, Puddle, and Little Quack. They all lived together in a nice, soft nest. But even Mama's littlest duckling was not so little anymore. It is time to leave the nest and learn to swim and take that first dip in the pond. All the little ducklings are very anxious, especially Little Quack. But one by one, with a lot of encouragement from Mama, they conquer their fear and take the plunge.

Rating:This is one of my favorite books to read to my class. I recommend this book; I give it an A plus. But it's Derek Anderson's exuberant and playful illustrations that really make this picture book a stand-out. Each large, dazzling spread is filled with bold color, marvelous facial expressions, eye-catching detail, and lots of humor, that makes this a perfect selection for story time or a Math lesson.

Classroom Ideas: An inventive Quack-U-Lator running along the bottom of each page therefore, it can be used to introduce counting and addition and subtration. This book can also be integrated to a science lesson on pond or farm animals.

Math for All Seasons. Posted by Charles Glenn

Title: Math for All Seasons

Author: Greg Tang

Illustrator: Harry Briggs

Recommended Grade Level: 1-3

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:

Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.

• 2.OA.3. Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
• 2.OA.4. Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.

Summary: This book connects the yearly calendar with countable objects. Throughout the year during season changes and holidays, we find objects relating to each season, and are given the task of counting them. In the spring, we are counting tulips in bloom. In the summer, we are counting scoops of ice cream and dandelions. In the fall, we are counting pumpkins and ears of corn. In the winter, we are counting snowflakes and icicles. There is a pattern with counting each object. Sometimes we find ourselves counting by twos, threes or fives. At times, we are prompted to subtract, to find 0ut how many of each object there is.

Rating:***** I highly recommend this book. It helps to take away from the abstractness of numbers. It helps to give reasons to why we multiply. If we are able to multiply, we can collect data and count more efficiently.

Classroom Ideas: This can be an introduction to how we use math for data collection. We can also use this when we learn mathematics equations where multiple equations are used. If there are two rows of four pumpkins, and all have faces except for two, we can quickly multiply and subtract two. It gives meaning of (4x2)-2, beyond the numbers. Students are constantly seeking the relevance of their learning. Being able to make a connection with what they are learning, makes it interesting.

More or Less, Kristina Sica

Title: More or LEss

Author: Stuart J. Murphy

Illustrator: David T. Wenzel

Recommended Grade Level: K-1


Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Prediction, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Logic, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Comparing

Summary: This story is about a boy named Eddie who is working the dunk tank at his school fair for the principal's retirement celebration. Eddie has a booth, guessing people's ages. If Eddie guesses the persons age in 3 questions or less, Eddie wins, four questions or more, you get a prize, and if it takes Eddie more than six questions, Eddie get's dunked! By using clues, such as the sound of the players voice, he then assumes the general age (child, adult, senior citizen) and from there begins asking the player various questions to guess their age.

Rating: **** I highly recommend this book and think students will enjoy it as well. I think it teaches useful concepts while incorporating them into a fun and relatable story.

Classroom Ideas: These concepts could be used in the classroom by having the students predict the next question Eddie will ask before reading on, or reading the story a second time and have the students come up with different questions that Eddie could ask in the story. This will help demonstrate the relationship between the question and answer and how important it is to ask the right questions.

Round Is a Mooncake, posted by Lynne Torrey

Title: Round is a Mooncake

Author: Rosanne Thong

Illustrator: Grace Lin

Recommended Grade Level: PreK, K, 1 and 2

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Geometry, Counting and Cardinality

Summary: This is a wonderful, reflective story that focuses on shapes. From the young Chinese-American girl's point of view, we are taken on a journey through ordinary daily life and around every corner, circles, squares and rectangles appear. The shapes are found in objects of her life and subtly, through the rhyming verse style of the story we learn how these sometimes Chinese, sometimes American objects are meaningful to her. The book is beautifully illustrated with big colorful shapes and stylistic patterns. The author also engages the readers by inviting them to see if they, too, can find shapes within the imagery.

Rating: ***** I highly recommend and think your students will enjoy it too. It includes many universal concepts that readers will connect with.

Classroom Ideas: This book is full of inspirational material for young students. Scientifically, students can practice observation while counting shapes on the page. Students can also practice prediction as unfamiliar objects present themselves and students make guesses based on the context as to what these objects might be used for. Culturally, the Chinese, customs, art, food and more are presented and may be use as inspiration to compare cultural similarities and differences. Mathematically speaking, children will learn about shapes. By using manipulatives in the classroom like blocks, felt board, computer, geoboard children can begin to recognize, name and identify 2 and 3 dimensional shapes. Playing with 2-dimensional shapes will help to develop relational terms as "above", "below" and "next to". Older students may want to create patterns with the shapes. Creatively, the students may want to pick one shape idea in the story, and write about or paint a picture with the same shape, to express where they find it in their own lives.

Lana Sayegh- Book Club

Title: Circus

Author: Lois Ehlert

Illustrator: Lois Ehlert

Recommended Grade Level: Pre-k-2

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:

Identify and describe shapes, analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes, reason with shapes and their attributes.

Summary: This story is about a big and exciting Circus! The story is told from the ringmaster’s point of view and he takes the reader through the various acts that will perform in the circus such as lions, lizards and dancers. There is even an intermission which includes tasty and fun snacks such as popcorn and ice cream.

Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book as it has fun mathematical connections for students. The story allows the student to experience the attributes of a real life circus through the usage of geometric and organic shapes.

Classroom Ideas: This book could be used when introducing or reviewing geometric shapes with children. Each illustration in the book is created by using various geometric and organic shapes. The teacher can work with the students to identify and form the shapes on a wet board/blackboard and count how many sides each shape has. Students will be able to identify the shapes throughout the book. Following the reading of the book the students can either cut out their geometric shapes using colorful paper, or use geometric manipulatives to create their own circus scenes. The students can break into various groups and be assigned different circus acts. Together they can create the picture to depict their specific act, and finally all of the groups can combine their artwork to create their own Circus book. The students may venture away from the circus theme and use shapes to create other illustrations of their own.

Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday Posted by Anne Marie Marshall

Title: Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Author: Judith Viorst

Illustrator: Ray Cruz

Recommended Grade Level: 2-4

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Measurement and Data

Summary: This story is about a young boy named Alexander who has a hard time saving and even keeping money. In the story, Alexander's grandparents gave him a dollar -- and that made him feel rich. There were so many things that he could do with all of that money! For example, he could buy as much gum as he wanted, or even a walkie-talkie, if he saved enough. But somehow the money began to disappear because Alexander just HAD to buy several different things.

Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book as it has several important mathematical connections for students. The story provides a real-life mathematical problem for students to relate to.

Classroom Ideas: This book could be used with several mathematical topics including addition, subtraction, budgeting, and money. Students could use money manipulatives to act out how Alexander's money kept disappearing. Students could also keep track of Alexander's spending using repeated subtraction. Students could also compare the prices of items in the book with current prices and make a similar book of their own.