{"id":1314,"date":"2009-07-12T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1314"},"modified":"2009-07-12T20:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:11:43","slug":"1-2-3-counting-for-kindergartners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/07\/12\/1-2-3-counting-for-kindergartners\/","title":{"rendered":"1, 2, 3, Counting for Kindergartners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following resources were chosen to be used in a kindergarten classroom. \u00a0As these\u00a0youngsters\u00a0begin to\u00a0familiarize\u00a0themselves with numbers and counting, books and websites are a great tools to facilitate their learning.<\/p>\n

BOOKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>Anno’s Counting Book<\/a>,\u00a0 written and illustrated by Matsumasa Anno – This book is wordless and introduces students to the number system. \u00a0The book goes through the 12 months, showing the growth of the town while providing the number written in large font on each page.<\/p>\n

<\/a>How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?<\/a>, written by Margaret McNamara and illustrated by G. Brian Karas – This book tells a story about a class being asking to count the seeds in a pumpkin. \u00a0The students must estimate and then groups skip count seeds in different ways: by twos, by fives, and by tens.<\/p>\n

10 Little Rubber Ducks<\/a>, written and illustrated by Eric Carle – The book is about 10 rubber ducks who are being skipped across the sea, but a wave knocks them into the ocean. \u00a0Then 10 ducks are swept in different directions. \u00a0This book is a great way to show your students ordinal positioning because it shows where each duck goes in order (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on to 10th).<\/p>\n

My Little Sister Ate One Hare<\/a>, written by Bill Grossman and illustrated by Bill Hawkes – In this grotesque\u00a0cumulative\u00a0counting book, \u00a0a little sister eats two snakes, three ants, but when she has to eat ten peas, she just can’t do it! \u00a0The book also rhymes.<\/p>\n

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The M&M’s Count to One Hundred Book<\/a>, written by Barbara Barbieri McGrath – A rhyming book that uses M&M candies to illustrate counting to 100 by putting the candies in rows. \u00a0Students can use real M&Ms to follow along with the book and count by ones, twos, fives, and tens.<\/p>\n

INTERACTIVE WEBSITES FOR STUDENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n