Lets Go Visiting

                                                     Reviewed By: John Moreira

                                                       Author: Sue Williams

                                                        Illustrator: Julie Vivas

                           Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 1^st Grade

 Common Core State Standards Addressed:

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.3

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4.a

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.C.6

Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group; e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.1

Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.


Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice:

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

Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution.

Summary:

Let’s Go Visiting begins with a child and a dog going to visit a farm. While on their way to a farm, they encounter several different animals that goes from sequential order from one to six. They run into a foal (horse) two calves, and three kittens who are ready to play. The continue to see who else will play with them run into four piglets, who are in the mud, and they join the piglets. The child and the animals clean up by jumping into a pond and find five ducklings to play with. The child, dog, foal, calves, kittens, piglets, and ducklings leave the pond, and then go to the farm to visit if any other animals want to play. They find six puppies, who are ready to play, and they all grouped together by having fun with one another. After playing with one another, they lay down on the floor that is covered in hay; they don’t encounter anymore animals to play with. They curled up and slept together in the hay.

Rating:

This book is given 5 stars. This book holds children’s attention as they understand how to count from one to six. In addition, it displays social skills when playing together.

Classroom Ideas:

1. You can retell the story by acting it out in the classroom. One child can play a foal, two children play a set of two kittens, three children can play a set of three kittens, four children can play a set of four piglets, five children can play a set of five ducklings, and six children can play a set of six puppies.
2. You can draw pictures of the animals by displaying which one came first. They can draw the animals by a certain color that show which color they were in the story.
3. You can have a picture of the animals and identify on flash cards by matching the order it came in.