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Little Blue and Little Yellow

By: Leo Lioni

Posted by: Keyla Guerrero

Recommended Grade Level:

 Pre K-Second

CCSSM Standards:

CCSS. Mathematical Practices. MP.D.  Model with mathematics

PK.CC.3 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.

PK.CC.3a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC. B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

Summary:

Little Blue and Little Yellow, is a simple story of friendship through the usage of colors, racial prejudice, and mathematical procedures. Little blue, lives at home with his blue papa and mama. Little blue has many different colored friends, but his best friend is yellow. They play different games together such as hide-and-seek. In school the students sit in rows, and after school they run and jump. One day mama blue went shopping and asked little blue to stay home. But little blue didn’t listen and went to look for his best friend yellow. After looking for a him he found them and when they hugged and turned green, and played until they got tired. When they reached home their parents couldn’t recognize them and they cried and cried until they became wholesome as themselves again. Then the families and children hugged turning into different colors.

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Classroom Ideas:

This book offers opportunity of growth using colors and mathematical equations. For preschoolers, I will begin by reading the story, and having pre-cut circles the colors of blue, yellow, green, brown, pink, orange and red which are colors shown throughout the book. While reading the story you I can add or subtract circles having students count. I can also add numerical forms cards in where they can place on the circles to identify the number of them shown in the story.

During the image where little Blue and Yellow are crying, they break apart in little pieces this is also an opportunity to have the students use their fine gross motor skills to rip paper and numerically match them to those in the story.

The students can also use blue and yellow playdough to create little balls of each and begin mixing them until they turn green. They can count to see how many balls it took to create the shade of green they like best.