Ten Black Dots
10 best books like Ten Black Dots (Donald Crews): Feast for 10, Color Farm Board Book, Anno's Counting Book, 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo, Ten, Nine, Eight, The Monster Who Ate My Peas, Bear in a Square, Two at the Zoo, A Million Dots, Fraction Action
| Author | Cathryn Falwell |
| ISBN | 0395620376 |
One of my favorites to use with younger children for food/Thanksgiving time programs. Very simple counting story about a family going shopping and cooking together and creating a feast. 11/21/12
Used in Lap Time this year. 11/29/13
Used for a PreK class doing grocery shopping.
Used...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0694010669 |
Title: Color Farm
Author/Illustrator: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Toy Book
Theme: Farm Animals
Opening Line:
“On this farm you can view, animals ears and whiskers too.”
Brief Summary:
Color farm is a toy book that uses shapes to create images of animals. The overlapping...
Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually...
| Author | Eric Carle |
| ISBN | 0399230130 |
Joyously colored animals, riding on a train to the zoo, offer youngsters a first introduction to numbers, number sets, addition and counting in Eric Carle’s first picture book. A gate-fold spread at the back of the book, featuring the whole wonderful animal train, adds to the fun! Each car on the train...
| Author | Molly Bang |
| ISBN | 0688149014 |
This is a simple and sweet beginning number book counting down from 10 to 1 and then going to bed. I am not crazy about the artwork, but the painting of the 10 toes was beautiful. I’m not sure what it was, but it didn’t work for me personally. I think this is great for very young children, but it was way to...
| Author | Danny Schnitzlein |
| ISBN | 1561452165 |
What do you dread eating the most? For the hero of this story, it's peas, and he thinks he's discovered a solution.
"I closed my eyes tightly and sent out a wish
That the peas would somehow disappear from my dish.
And something quite strange and mysterious occurred, As if somehow... somebody......
| Author | Stella Blackstone |
| ISBN | 1841482870 |
Early Lit Tips:
Children need to know three things about letters: the names, the shape, and the sounds they make. Naming letters on signs, pointing out letter shapes in sidewalk cracks or buildings, and voicing letter sounds while interacting are all ways to make these connections.
Early...
Counting is always more fun when Grandpa helps! From one black bear to ten hairy warthogs, the young narrator and his grandpa count their way through a colorful and sometimes unusual zoo, encountering a wide assortment of friendly animals along the way. There are lions, zebras, and penguins, of course,...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0689858248 |
It's a long way to
a million, right?
Of course it is.
But do you really know
what a million looks like?
If you'd like to see -- actually see, right now, with your own eyes -- what a million looks like, just open this book.
Be prepared to learn some interesting things along...
Absolutely LOVED it! I will definitely make use of this next year when introduction fractions to my second graders. The story is made up of blurbs which assist lower level readers. The “teacher” in the story teaches her student s about halves, thirds, fourths, and fifths. The teacher uses an overhead,...
| Author | Masaichiro Anno |
| ISBN | 0698117530 |
"Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics, the text and pictures combine to present a lesson in a palatable form as well as the pleasure of looking at pictures that only Mitsumasa Anno could invent." — Publishers Weekly"The book moves logically and elegantly from the...
| Author | Emma Dodd |
| ISBN | 0545035708 |
A common kid question leads to uncommon results in this terrifically charming picture book!
Jack's mother says he can choose a pet . . . but what pet to get? An elephant? (So difficult to take on vacation.) A polar bear? (It wouldn’t like the central heating.) What about a Tyrannosaurus Rex?...
| Author | Paul Giganti Jr. |
| ISBN | 0688104282 |
Counting Book
This is a great concept book. The quality of the text allows this book to be very adaptable to meet individual student comprehension, retention and understanding of text. This book moves through scenarios listing various organization and number relation. I see this book being...
| Author | Ellen Stoll Walsh |
| ISBN | 0152002235 |
In our preschool room we often have the children act out Mouse Count. Ten children become mice and one the snake and one a rock with an area marked for the jar. Then the children have to act their parts. We always read it three or four times to give each child a part in the story. When they act out the story they...
| Author | Elinor J. Pinczes |
| ISBN | 0395694558 |
Hup, two, three, four! We're in the 25th Army Corps. Queen's count! Two, three! We are the marching infantry! Poor Joe! He wants to march in the parade, but every time the lines are uneven, he must stand aside. What's a poor bug to do? Joe is determined. He studies the problem, relining the twenty-five bugs...
| Author | Keith Baker |
| ISBN | 0152050256 |
Quack and Count, written by Keith Baker, is a math picture book that can help children learn how to count and use addition. It is based on 7 ducklings and on each page, the ducklings are split into different numbers that all add up to 7 to represent an addition equation. The children must come up with different...
| Author | Stuart J. Murphy |
| ISBN | 0064467015 |
How do you share a pizza? You split it in half! Two siblings split a yummy lunch and discover that using fractions can be messy. This hilarious book written by Stuart J. Murphy and illustrated by G. Brian Karas introduces the simplest of fractions: 1/2.
This is a Level 2 MathStart book, which is...
| Author | Lily Toy Hong |
| ISBN | 0807581577 |
After reading this book to my students, I will have them do an activity called Seeing Double. Students will be grouped with a partner. One student will roll one number cube. He/she will place the number rolled in the square on their Seeing Double activity sheet. Student will select that number of plastic...
| Author | Marilyn Burns |
| ISBN | 0590489917 |
Greedy Triangle is written by Marilyn Burns and illustrated by Gordon Silveria and is part of the Sholastic book range.
The triangle is bored with his shape and asks a shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape....over and over again. He becomes many different shapes until at last he he misses...
This Is the Way We Go to School: A Book About Children Around the World
| Author | Edith Baer |
| ISBN | 0590431625 |
Although I was intrigued with the idea and the chance to learn about some other ways of getting to school I am not sure if this book hit the mark for me. There were some pages that mentioned the cities or places where the children were while others just mentioned how they got to school while the educated reader...
| Author | Nancy Tafuri |
| ISBN | 0689873425 |
This little chick
went to the garden.
This little chick
found a worm.
This little chick
eyed a berry.
And this little chick
gave a squirm!
With counting, fun, and vibrant illustrations, acclaimed storyteller Nancy Tafuri brings the farmyard to life. Mamas...
