"THE SHAPE OF THINGS"

 Posted by Ketty D. Duberry

Title: "THE SHAPE OF THINGS"

Author: Dayle Ann Dodds

Illustrator: Julie Lacome

Recommended Grade Level: Pre-K - K

CCSSM Content Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1
Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.5
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components

           
CCSSM Standard for Mathematical Practice:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7 Look for and make use of structure

Summary:

This story is about how shapes are so ordinary until you add other shapes or objects and that turns it into something else. It also talks about how if we look around us, we can see shapes all around.

Rating:

*****

I would highly recommend this book because it uses the rhyming technique to keep children engaged. Also, it touches a very important concept which is having children see the way things can be created.

Classroom Ideas/Lesson Ideas:

An idea that can be incorporated from this book into the classroom is for the students to search around the room and see how many shapes they can find that create objects. A good lesson plan idea is for the children to create their own objects from shapes such as a car with a rectangle and two wheels.

Teddy Bear Patterns

Joe Can Count

Title: Joe Can Count

Posted By Marsha Atkins

Author and Illustrator: Jan Ormerod

Recommended Grade Level: Birth – 1^st Grade

CCSS Math: 4.    Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

a.            When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

b.            Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

c.             Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

5.            Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration;

CCSS Math: (1) Students develop strategies for adding and subtracting whole numbers based on their prior work with small numbers. They use a variety of models, including discrete objects and length-based models (e.g., cubes connected to form lengths), to model add-to, take-from, put-together, take-apart, and compare situations to develop meaning for the operations of addition and subtraction, and to develop strategies to solve arithmetic problems with these operations. Students understand connections between counting and addition and subtraction (e.g., adding two is the same as counting on two). They use properties of addition to add whole numbers and to create and use increasingly sophisticated strategies based on these properties (e.g., “making tens”) to solve addition and subtraction problems within

20. By comparing a variety of solution strategies, children build their Understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Summary: This book is about Joe counting a variety of objects. It has the images of the amount of objects that coincide with the number it is relational to.

Rating: 5 Stars. This book is visually engaging for young children to get an understanding of numbers to use as future connections for counting, addition and subtraction.

Classroom Ideas: This book can be used to teach mathematical concepts like number sequence, grouping objects and number name reference. You can read the book to the children and point out the number of objects there are that represent the number you are teaching. You can have the children do simple math and add the two numbers together to solve simple addition problems or to apply the same for subtraction. I love this book and hope you do as well.

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

POSTED BY Mayelin Zorrilla

Title: FRIENDS

Author: Alma Flor Ada

Illustrated by: Barry Koch

Recommended Grade Level: K

CCSSM Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1
Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.5
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.6
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"

Summary: This book talks about different geometrical shapes- squares, rectangle, circle, and triangles that teach children that even though they are different shapes they can mix with others. This book tells the story of two circles that decided to explore the town, and, in their trip, they found more shapes and they invited them to come with them. Then, they found out that even though they are different they can play, share and do many things together.

Rating 1-5 Stars: ***** This is an excellent book that is an introduction to basic shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles. Young children can discover the creative possibilities of shapes combination to make houses, boats, cars, etc.,

Classroom Ideas: This book can be used to teach shapes, children can have a creative dialogue about how many sides have each shape, which one has more sides, and which one is largest. With this story, children will learn how many wonderful things they can create when they put two or more shape together. This book will teach children that shapes are everywhere, children can take a walk around the classroom and explore all the different shapes around it. Children can also cut different shapes and glue them to create their own figure.

Just a Minute!

Title: Just a Minute!

Illustrated: by Dana Regan

Hello Math: Book level 2.

Suggested grade levels (Kindergarten- Grade 2)

Book read aloud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Y7DtofIjA

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                                     COMMON CORE STANDARDS

CCLS - Math: 1.MD.3- Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks. Recognize and identify coins, their names, and their value. 

CCLS - Math: 1.MD.4(Represent And Interpret Data)-Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

CCLS: 11-12.RH.1-Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole 

CCLS - Math: 1.NBT.2-Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases.

                                                Summary:

 Fred is a young boy who was met with the phrase "just a minute" every time he tried to interact with his family members. During that "minute" Fred decided to past time by doing various things as he waited to be acknowledged. Activities that unbeknownst to Fred took longer than a minute. After being told to walk the family's dog Fred yelled out" just a minute" not fully understanding that it was just a expression, and was not referring to only 60 seconds. Fred's brother scolded him for not taking the dog on a walk, resulting in the dog having a accident indoors, and as he cleaned it up Fred was left wondering what a minute was. 

                                                    Rating: 

 I rate this book a 10 out of 10. This book told the story of a young boy who kids could relate to. The colors and details were engaging and left students wondering what Fred was going to do next.

                                      Classroom lesson ideas:

Disclaimer: At the end of the book there are various activities that incorporate math into different lessons. These activities were provided by Marilyn Burns and can be found on pages 25-29.

This book can be used to show students how to tell time. Some activities that can be used for this goal is having students draw clocks and mark where they think a minute is. 

Students will be asked to show different ways we can show time (clock, timers, hour glass) 

Students will be asked to count to 60 using the Mississippi method. This requires each student to say the number first and then the word Mississippi until they get to 60. By counting that way students will be able to see just how long a minute is. 

Students can demonstrate their understanding of the number 60 but showing different ways it can be written. 30+30, 50+10, 70-?=60, place value chart, counting by 10's etc...

Another possible lesson idea consist of asking students to make a list of things they would have done if they were in Fred position. Then those activities will be put into categories while they decide if they think their activity would take a minute or longer.

This book can also be used to discuss feelings as we explore how Fred may have felt being told to wait so many times. Students can make real life connections as they explore the events in the story. What lesson do they think Fred and his family learn?

 

Rosie Revere, Engineer

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

POSTED BY ANGELA MANESSIS

Title: Rosie Revere, Engineer

Author and Illustrator: Andrea Beaty; David Roberts

Recommended Grade Level: Pre-K – 3

Common Core Standards Addressed:

RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
R.L 1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or...
R.L. 1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

CSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.2 Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.

Common Core Mathematics Standard:

• CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.
• CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7 Look for and make use of structure

Summary: Rosie is passionate about building things and helping others, since she was small. Unfortunately, Rosie’s passion for engineering has not been appreciated by her family, as they always laugh at Rosie’s creations. When her great-great-aunt comes for a visit, Rosie sets to work building a contraption for her aunt, that crashes, thus Rosie feels she failed. Yet, Rosie’s aunt insists that Rosie's contraption was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit, thus increasing Rosie’s self-esteem and furthering her dream to become a great engineer.

Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭ I rate this 5 stars because it introduces children to the concept of engineering and what engineers do. I also love that this book incorporates a female character that is the same age as the demographic of children reading this book. It also show practical engineering “contraptions” that are age-appropriate and typical of the developmental imagination from the ages of 4-8.

Classroom ideas/Lesson ideas: I used this book to teach the engineering scope and sequence is Pre-K, K, and 1^st. In Pre-K, I presented my students with the prompt that Dora needs to cross over a river to save boots. Yet, there is only a string of rope, connecting each side. Using this string, and given solo cups, tape, and craft sticks, the children were tasked to build a bridge that would hold the weight of Dora and boots, safely. The same principal can be applied and made more challenging based on grade. For example, in first grade, you can task students to build a ramp for a ball using common classroom furniture.

Belkis Rodriguez: Circus Shapes

Belkis Rodriguez

Title: Circus Shapes

Author: Stuart J. Murphy

Illustrator: Edward Miller

Recommended Grade Level: Pre-k - Kindergarten

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1

Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.2

Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.4

Analyze the number of sides and vertices/"corners") and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.5

Model shapes in the world by building shapes from 

Summary: In this book, Stuart J. Murphy uses a circus as a platform to introduce basic shapes to students. In the story, families go to the circus and see all the shapes that are there. Animals form or are dressed with the shapes that they are representing. Using rhyming text describes the features of the circus and highlight basic shapes while getting the students attention.

Rating: This book is an exciting way to introduce shapes to young students. Students will love the imagery, look through the book and will be able to identify the different shapes. 

Classroom idea:

•    While reading the story introduce the basics shapes. Encourage your students to describe the shapes and repeat the name of the shapes. 

   

•    Look for things around the classroom and ask what shape those objects are; triangle, circle, square or rectangle.

•    Teachers can also go around the school hunting for shapes.

•    Using construction paper teachers can have the students cut different shapes and glue into a paper sorted by shapes.