As these emerging writers work/create, teachers circulate about the room adding student names along with short narratives from students about their work explaining what they chose to create and how the art piece achieves this goal. Students will be able to identify patterns among the different sets of addends used to equal the sum of 10.

C. Represent equivalent forms of the same number through the use of concrete objects, drawings, word names and symbols. I thought it was interesting that there were some rhyming elements to the book. I also liked how the words corresponded with the illustrations. However, I do agree with the one reviewer that this book is very simple and even non-logical at times. For example, when describing the number 2, the examples he used were fox eyes and then two separate keyholes as opposed to another thing that natural came with two.Those same counters make fabulous tools for creating numbers in a writing tray. This can help strengthen fine motor skills as well as helping to practice writing the numbers. Students paint the spaces with Crayola Washable Watercolor Paints. This will add form to the item represented. Love all their awesomely creative ideas: teddy bears, people, family at the movie theater, gardens! Objectives:• Students will be able to create and identify the different ways they can combine two numbers to equal a sum of 10.

I put them together into a book so that students can look through it whenever they want! They love seeing themselves as authors and illustrators.Supply sheets pre-printed with dots that can be used as eyes or other things with a little direction. Next, they placed their dots on their paper and drew their design. I showed them how to color their design and then glue the dots down with their glue sponges.

Also have sheets with a drawing already set up, in case there is a child who might only be able to color. Instruct them to use the pencil to draw a picture that uses some of the dots the way we have been talking about. (You can use all of them, but you don’t have to. Use as many as you would like for your picture.) When done, they can color drawing with markers. Students will bring their recording papers and gather in front of the chalkboard. Ask each group how many different ways they used two numbers to get the sum of 10. Record each new way on the chalkboard. Provide illustrations if most groups did not find that particular way of obtaining the sum of 10. The class will discuss the various ways each group used to get the sum of 10 and encourage the students to find patterns among their examples (i.e., 3 and 7, 7 and 3).Donald Crews (born August 30, 1938) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. In 2015, the American Library Association (ALA) honored him with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, recognizing his lasting contribution to children's literature. Common subjects of his include modern technology (especially travel vehicles), and childhood memories. His stories often include few humans.