How High is the Sky - Read by David Tennant
The Hungry Caterpillar.
This is a lovely full length 30 minute animation of 'The Hungry Caterpillar'
This is the traditional story read by author Eric Carle.
| hungry_caterpillar_maths_workbook.pdf |
| mathsbooklet.pdf |
| hungrycaterpillar.pdf |
| tl-guide-hungry-cater-activity.pdf |
| k-3_classics.hungry_caterpillar.pdf |
Guess How Much I love You.
Summary:
Little Nutbrown Hare discovers love is not an easy thing to measure but he has an attempt by using width, height, and distance to express his feelings. When his “measures” are “topped” by his caregiver, Big Nutbrown Hare, it’s not so much competitive as it is affirming. The book provides the opportunity to explore comparative measures and statements and link the language of measurement to an engaging story.
Lesson Sequence:
Little Nutbrown Hare discovers love is not an easy thing to measure but he has an attempt by using width, height, and distance to express his feelings. When his “measures” are “topped” by his caregiver, Big Nutbrown Hare, it’s not so much competitive as it is affirming. The book provides the opportunity to explore comparative measures and statements and link the language of measurement to an engaging story.
Lesson Sequence:
- Prior to reading, have a brainstorm with your students about some describing words you have put on the board or modeling book.
What do we know about these words: long, wide, high, tall, far?
Ask students to give demonstrations or explain what each word means or a context related to the word. Use this as an assessment opportunity for decide if the concepts are developed enough to move on to the –er or –est suffixes. - Share the book with your students, stopping to stress the key vocabulary and related concepts.
- On the second reading, have the children work in pairs with their measuring cords. At each measuring part of the story pause and have them explore the idea of WIDE (p.4), HIGH (p.8 and 16), LONG (p. 13). See if they can find a way to measure arm span and compare who is wider, compare heights and see who is taller, hop and see who can go higher, and lie down and stretch to see who is longer. When making measurements they can use their cord and place a peg to mark the length.
- When you get to FAR (p.20), take everyone outside and ask them to run across a wide space (that is “far”) once you get to the far side ask them to run there and back again (that is further). Then come inside and read the last 5 pages.
- To follow on from this lesson students can explore the vocabulary and making comparisons related to heavy, deep, loud, hot, long (time), etc. and ordering items based on a measured characteristic (for example, cold, colder, coldest; light, lighter, lightest)
| 1564024733.kit.1.pdf |
This is a party pack, but there are some nice maths themed resources too.
| measuring_up.pdf |
The first page doesn't look that exciting but this PDF has some lovely resources for an introduction to measuring.
Diary of a Baby Wombat
Baby Wombat is now writing his own diary about a life that is like his mum’s—“Early morning: Slept. Slept. Late morning: Slept. Woke up”—but with a twist: “Smelled the flowers. Ate the flowers.” The pacing of the spare text and the engaging illustrations combine humorously, especially when the baby wombat meets a human baby, and their antics mirror each other.
This story is a lovely introduction to time.
This story is a lovely introduction to time.
| baby_wombats_week.pdf |
| daysmonths.pdf |
| topic_workbook_8_-_numbers_days_of_the_week_months_of_the_year.pdf |
Minnie's Diner : A Multiplying Menu
Minnie’s Diner: A Multiplying Menu by Dayle Ann Dodds
Paper circles of different colours
Paper triangles
Glue or staples
Activity:
Make It a Double!
This activity is based on the picture book Minnie’s Diner: A Multiplying Menu
Summary:
Through the repeated refrain of “Make it a double!” a family of brothers reveals the power of multiplication as they order from the menu at Minnie’s Diner. Starting with the smallest brother, who orders 1 of everything, the doubling sequence of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 is illustrated with humour and rhyming verse.
Lesson Sequence:
Paper circles of different colours
Paper triangles
Glue or staples
Activity:
Make It a Double!
This activity is based on the picture book Minnie’s Diner: A Multiplying Menu
Summary:
Through the repeated refrain of “Make it a double!” a family of brothers reveals the power of multiplication as they order from the menu at Minnie’s Diner. Starting with the smallest brother, who orders 1 of everything, the doubling sequence of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 is illustrated with humour and rhyming verse.
Lesson Sequence:
- Prior to reading, explore the idea of double with your students ensuring that the concept of double as an exact replication of a set is understood. This can be illustrated by having several different sets and asking students to “Make it a double!” by creating another set exactly the same and then adding them together to get the double. For example: “Here are 4 dinosaurs. Make it a double! That’s right 4 more so we write 4 + 4 and double 4 is 8 so we write 4 + 4 = 8.”
- Share the book with your students and record each double as a maths equation when it is illustrated in the story. Stress the terms “double” and “2 groups of” when recording the illustrations.
- After reading, challenge your students to figure out what the next two doubles in the sequence might be.
- In pairs or small groups, tell students that you are going to ask them to build ice cream cones to show they know how to “make it a double!”
- Show them the cones (triangles) and the scoops (circles). Give each pair or small group a number (between 1-9 or higher if that is appropriate for the ability of the student) and ask them to make the cone with that many scoops by gluing or stapling on the circles. When everyone is ready say “Make it a Double!” and have each pair or group create a new cone with double the number of scoops. Attach the cones and their doubles to a display board and have the students record the maths equation for their double.
| 3_minniesdiner_oa3-9.pdf |
