By: Cindy Neuschwander
Illustrated:Wayne Geehan
This book is a great math picture book, that teaches place value to the thousands.
The infinate question of why am I learning this is always prevalent with children in school. This books starts with a huge party being thrown for the King and all the people in the kingdom are invited. This isn't an issue until the party hosts Sir Cumference and Lady Di of Ameter need to get the party preparations started and know how many people they are going to need to feed for the party.
They try just having everyone listen to directions in a mass and quickly find this does not work, so one of the knights suggest everyone makes a circle and then they yell out how many people are in each circle. This seems to work until everyone tries talking at once and Lady Di losses count. The book continues with several other Knights giving other suggestions that all ultimately fail. Until they combine all the ideas together and create lines of ten people who group in tens and they show how Lady Di is able to count, but UH OH more cities show up and the count keeps changing. They decide to put up different size tents which represent the places the numbers hold in place value. One tent has 9 people in it the next tent has 90 and the next tent 900 up to a tent of 9000 people. The king shows up for his party and is surprised by a huge mass of people coming out of their tents to greet him.And there is plenty of food for everyone.
This book is funny, and educational. The thing I like the most about this book is that it shows a real life application for place value and grouping. The story is all around enjoyable from the mathematical name for the Knights to the actual story line.
Disneynature African Cats, A Lion's Pride
Adapted by: Cathy Hapka
Photos by: Keith Scholey, Natasha Breed, Owen Newman, Marguerite Smits van Oyen, and Oliver Scholey
* Fiction or Non-Fiction: Non- Fiction, it's an excellent book that align's with the new Common Core Standards.
* Summary: This book gives you an insight into the life of a lion, where they live, how they live, and includes awesome facts throughout the book and at the end. This is a great book with the lower grades K-2.
* Activity suggestion: Have students interact with the story. When they mention river have the students make a side-winding motion with one arm like the curves in a river. When you talk about elephants have students stand up and walk around like elephants. At the end of the book there are REALLY interesting lion facts. My favorite I use for the rest of the day is the fact that when lion's walk they never let their heels touch the ground. So when we are walking in the classroom and transitioning we walk like lions on out toes. There are lots of other really awesome facts you can use from the book. Give it a read!!!
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