The Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews a book about all the different things you can do with ten black circles Posted by Dilmer Carrasco

The Ten Black Dots
Dilmer Carrasco



Posted by Dilmer Carrasco
Author Donald Crews
Recommended grade level: Kindergarten
CCSSM Standards: KCCA.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20 ( with 0 representing a count of no object).
Standard for Mathematical Practice 1.Student make sense of the problem and preserve in solving them by using pictorials to represent the numbers, students also create different shapes using the dots.

Summary: This book is about ten black dots and the different objects you can create by using the dots. Is one of the  many ways you can introduce counting to  kinder-gardeners. Every dot represents a number and the  different things you can use a dot for. The author starts by counting one dot and basically saying one dot can be the sun and it can also be the moon and he continues until he gets to ten.  Is a good way to have children's remember the numbers because they always going to associate that number to that  particular image.

Rating: This is a very interesting book for kinder-gardeners, is very engaging and color coded.  The book introduces numbers, colors and objects relevant to student age.

Classroom Ideas: One of the activities you can do with this aged group is to invite children to create their own number book using construction paper and crayons.  They can draw the image of their choice but each dot has to correspond to the image.  Once completed  it,  they can put their book together folded it in the shape of a book and then i will have the children explain and share what they did.