Chicka Chicka 123

Chicka Chicka 123

Reviewed By: Zuleyma Del Valle

Author: Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson

Illustrator: Lois Ehlert

Recommended Grade Level: PreK- Kindergarden

Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice:

CCSS.Math Practice.MP1- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

CCSS.Math.Practice.MP2- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

Common Core Content Standards

         K.CC.A.2- Count to 100 by ones beginning from any given number

Summary:

In this book all of the numbers starting with number 1, race each other to get to the top of the apple tree. They all start piling up the tree until the bumblebees threaten all the numbers and the numbers start to rush down the apple tree. There is a hero in this story though, a number that at first does not know its place but at the end of the story knows exactly where he needs to be. The hero of the story, Zero, finds it’s place at the top of the apple tree with the number 10!

Rating:

I give this book five stars. This book has many ways of showing our mathematicians how to count in a fun way. I also like how this book chooses to count in ones, tens and then it starts to count backwards. This book can be used in many different ways around the classroom.

Classroom Ideas:

This book has so many ideas! Some of these ideas are:

1.     You can use this book as an introduction to counting. After reading this book aloud, you can help the students by practice their number recognition (Pre-K) and /or writing the numbers. You can add some fun to this activity by drawing an apple tree, or a similar tree from the book, and allowing the students to paste (glue) the number of apples to the tree that they are practicing.

2.      The teacher can have the student make their own number line. They can start by counting and writing the numbers in ones. Then make another number line counting by tens.

3.     You can have students make their own number book! We can make their book look similar to the book. We can put different counters, dots, beads, wiggly eyes, etc (get creative) to show the number that the students are working on in each page.