Mouse Count
We read the picture book 🐁 Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. This is a wonderful picture book that encourages conversations about number, quantity and addition.
After reading the story, we watched a short video that encouraged the children to think about the multiple combinations that make 10.
We wonder how many different ways 10 mice can be arranged with some in the jar and some in the grass.
Through play and dialogue, we looked a few different combinations using stones to represent mice.
Then, the children were invited to make their own number book.
One student decided to tell his own number story using the different loose parts in the campfire.
We are learning to create number stories by modelling joining and separating concrete objects. We can use language to describe changes to a collection as objects are added or taken away.
The children documented their thinking on paper using pictures, numbers and symbols. These pages will be collated to create a number book.
As authors and illustrators, their next task was to decide what the cover of the book should look like.
They had to think of a ‘title’ that gives the reader an idea of what the book might be about.
Finally, the children included a picture on the front cover along with the authors name.
