Ages: 3-7
Awards: The Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine
Awards: The Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine
The M&M's Counting Book is a great book to help students learn about counting, adding, subtracting, and shapes. Students love candy and teachers already use food for math so an exciting book is the best addition. Older students can use the book and complete the given activities on their own. The book helps students by giving them instruction and then praise for after they completed a task. For younger students, this is a great book for teachers to use as a visual as they teach their math lesson.
Theme: Shapes, addition, subtraction, and counting are important part of the book in the sense that the students have to use these aspects of math while they read the book.
About the Author:
Barbara McGrath obtaining her degree in Early Childhood Education from Lasell College. With this degree she opened a preschool where she taught four and five year olds for sixteen years. While working she did freelance writing and then went on to write over twenty children's books. McGrath travels to talk about writing and math to students so that they will be inspired to complete writing pieces of their own.
Barbara McGrath obtaining her degree in Early Childhood Education from Lasell College. With this degree she opened a preschool where she taught four and five year olds for sixteen years. While working she did freelance writing and then went on to write over twenty children's books. McGrath travels to talk about writing and math to students so that they will be inspired to complete writing pieces of their own.
Pre-Reading Activities:
This book is an activity within it self. Supply each student with an appropriate amount of M&M's then select a few pages from the book and complete these activities with the students.
Post-Reading Activities:
Have a discussion with the students about what they liked and disliked about the activities. Tell the students that this activity will be available for them. Have a center with either M&M's or colored circles at a table so that students can sit down and try to complete different pages of the book (a teacher will need to be present for the younger students).
Have a discussion with the students about what they liked and disliked about the activities. Tell the students that this activity will be available for them. Have a center with either M&M's or colored circles at a table so that students can sit down and try to complete different pages of the book (a teacher will need to be present for the younger students).
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